by altha-admin | Apr 19, 2011 | Articles
Mr. Tobar:Your article "At last, goodwill in Bell" (4/15/2011) was moving, comforting, and inspiring.I was not aware that there was an Arab constituency in the city of Bell.More importantly, however, the name of the newly-installed mayor, Ali Saleh, caught...
by altha-admin | Apr 19, 2011 | Articles
President Bashar al-Assad has given in to the demands of the growing opposition in Syria. Syrian human rights activists have decried Assad's retraction of power as pure political posturing, a ceremonial repeal which does nothing to alleviate the political...
by altha-admin | Apr 19, 2011 | Articles
Despite the parochial subject of Eloisa Gonzalez' article "Florida may soon outlaw baggy pants on students' (LA Times 4/15/2011), I found the core issue which you addressed, or rather your failure to do, very intriguing.Mrs. Gonzalez outlined the...
by altha-admin | Apr 19, 2011 | Articles
As any high school civics student can recite, democracy is "rule by the people", the literal translation of the much-used and misused word.Yet many teachers fail to teach that:1) Democracy as majority rule has been a widely despised form of government for...
by altha-admin | Apr 17, 2011 | Articles
David Prosser, incumbent Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice and staunch, has won reelection bid against Joanna Kloppenberg, the favorite of disaffected public employee unions. Governor Stan Walker and the empowered Republicans favored the incumbent not just for his...
