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Defending Pakistan Your coverage of Pakistan is very one-sided [July 21]. You say the country is reeling from rising radicalism and a slumping economy. You call it a failing state, a terrorist sanctuary and a serious threat to the security of the U.S., despite the fact that in February's election, Pakistanis rejected religious extremism and said yes to democracy and the rule of law. All economies are in a slump. Radicalism, terrorism and extremism are rife from Colombia to Sri Lanka. And I fail to understand how a small group of extremists in a corner of one Pakistani...
...wants a tax cut for corporate profits, while Obama has proposed a whole host of tax cuts that will benefit those in the middle-income brackets. Both candidates have new spending programs, though Obama appears to have more. And both candidates say they will cut spending elsewhere, though they fail to provide many specifics about...
...Francisco amended its sanctuary law in 1992, removing protections for criminal suspects. But in practice, police and justice departments would continually fail to turn over suspects to federal authorities. When the city's juvenile-court system was caught flying Hondurans convicted of dealing cocaine back to their home country last May - instead of contacting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities to have them federally deported - Mayor Gavin Newsom changed the policy and told police officers that they should turn suspected criminals, even juveniles, over to authorities. "That policy was wrong," says Nathan Ballard, the mayor's director of communications...
...Despite $2.8 billion spent by U.S. federal and state governments to improve voting technology since 2002, a new study by New York University researchers says poor ballot designs have confounded hundreds of thousands of voters in recent elections. The study noted some drawbacks of touchscreen voting systems, which can fail to indicate unregistered votes and sometimes lack paper trails for verification--flaws that have prompted many precincts to replace the terminals with optically scanned ballots. With more than 15 million Americans casting votes in counties with new ballot systems in place this year, it's likely that some confusion will...
...first stretched out the hand of peace to the government that deprived him of freedom. In the more than three years since his release, he has remained true to that vision, preaching reconciliation where others advocated revenge, advocating compromise where others preached intransigence. Although he never fails to emphasize that he is part of a collective leadership, Nelson Mandela in his proud, insistent, fatherly way has shaped history even as it shaped him. For the moment, however, it does not matter much who is the driver and who the passenger, for these two leaders have been bound together by historical...