European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 1, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse July 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 23 opinion what newspapers Are saying at Home the following editorial excerpts Are selected from a Cross Section of newspapers throughout the United the editorials Are provided by the associated press and other stateside Cheney Tightrope act galling1 the times so Burn those the White House is writing new ones for the no child left behind lesson 1 no one can get any information from the vice unless he says they Hows Orwell want to know who on Dick Cheney staff in part of the executive i dont have to Tell want to know what documents Hes Classi fied As secret or top be National that executive order signed by president Bush and directed to every entity within the executive Branch Doest apply to me As pre siding officer of the in part of the legislative that occasional tie breaking vote has been expanded by Cheney into his own Politi Cal and George Bush has no problem with any of All kidding the vice president re Mains the most most most galling Symbol of this administrations wholesale contempt for the Constitution and its blatant disregard of its duty to be account Able to the american Vatican Road map oddly True the the Vatican rolled out a ten command ments for Drivers last no word yet whether Charlton Heston will Star in the movie what would Moses drive the issued by the Vatican office for migrant and itinerant warned that automobiles can be an occasion of sin particularly when used to make a danger Ous passing Man Euver or when used by prostitutes and their or particularly when you Combine the dont do the Vatican document hits close to Home that is the United states of America when it laments the wrongs associated with automobiles individuals using their cars to show off dominating others by speeding and Drivers killing themselves and it warns about the effects of Road say ing driving can bring out primitive behaviour in including rude blasphemy and loss of a sense of re Pride and Wrath Are also the Vatican Doest go so far As to say humvee and sums can be false worshipped at the Gas guzzling big vehicles but we Campaign fun creates interest Chicago Tribune have to this is thanks to the Advent of viral this is becoming the most entertaining presidential Campaign since Ross Perot blamed Republican operatives for attempting to sabotage his daughters thank Young techno people with lots of time on your for sexing up this presidential Campaign with the Hooch i Coochie girl in i got a crush on a Independent video spoof that quickly exceeded a million views in just four Days after its release last thank whoever captured John Edwards proving he didst get his moneys Worth with his theres Edwards on spending two full minutes spraying and Finger comb ing his do into in a video set to the strains of i feel and thank for break ing the candidates traditional lock on their own usually banal and revealing just the right Smidgen of sub textual prickly City by Scott Stantis task or Are the candidates positions on health poverty and taxes obscured be Hind this push to turn politics into a fluffed Nutter Sandwich but once Treyve lured people into paying Blindside them with some not a Banner Day in court Naples daily news the current supreme court has expanded schools Powers to regulate speech in a Case in which the speech in question was de scribed As by chief Justice John Roberts in the and As by Justice John Paul Stevens a More rugged description would be just Stu the phrase was the no infamous Bong hits 4 words now enshrined in first amendment it was written on a 14foot Banner that Alaska High school student Joseph Frederick unfurled As the olympic Torch relay was coming through of do these things become fed eral cases principal Deborah Morse confiscated the Banner and suspended Frederick for 10 Days on the grounds that the message conflicted with the schools mis Sion of fighting illegal drug by the court under the Bong hits school officials gained the courts backing for making students Check at least part of their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse car makers could Benefit too the Palm Beach Post Detroit Best Hope just might be last months belated intervention by lawmakers finally May have realized that they allowed the Industry to operate on cruise control for too the Senate passed an Energy Bill that includes the first significant requirements for higher fuel Stan Dards in two foreign competitors have boosted sales by adapting and turning out efficient vehicles while manufacturers stayed committed to which the automakers got classified As Light trucks to avoid improving their advocates of the new mileage Standard say it can save the country Mil lion barrels of Oil per Day the uses about 20 million and Consumers Bil lion a the efficiency that trickles from the pumps through the rest of the Economy could produce about new the american Auto Industry is hurting it self and the country by idling in the Strong action by Congress on fuel Economy will do wonders for air poorly assessed the it is Clear that Christie Whitman and other officials didst do nearly enough to warn peo ple of the pollution danger after the collapse of the world Trade and the govern ment still int doing enough to protect peo ple in lower Manhattan from 11 s toxic the medical and a growing num Ber of cases of death and prove that the government botched its duty to protect the the illness and suffering of police apartment dwell ers and office workers show that Whitman and others were horribly mistaken when they concluded that the air was Safe in the Days after but said Little about dust and yet the environmental Protection Agency didst Hammer Home the need for the skilled cleanup of offices and even though Whitman and other officials quickly saw to it that the Agency own building near the twin towers was thoroughly Deco Tami the Public tone was one of re a former governor of new seems genuinely to believe the Epa did the Best it that the confident tone was justified by the science at the the mounting medical evidence shows that the reassurances were optimistic at student gains cant be relative the Greenville news is it time for the nation to adopt a better method of comparing academic achieve ment from state to state the Federal no child left behind Law requires standards in All states but allows the states to set their own definition of student Success known As the result is a Hodgepodge of standards that makes it difficult to know exactly How South Carolina students compare for in North Carolina or Texas or califor Nia a education department in confirmed what state Educa Tion officials have been saying for years South Carolinas standards Are among the highest in the the study showed some other states have set their standards so Low that students who score proficient there would rate below Basic flunking in South the obvious remedy is for Congress to develop National proficiency standards which can provide the most accurate information in comparing student Progress from state to it would put All states and pub Lic school students on a level playing Street View is but Safe the morning news googles Street View features Street level pictures of cities pieced together to create a panoramic video map of Urban All you have to do is use your cursor to take a virtual 360degree stroll through new York and a handful of other major not everyone thinks this is some bloggers Call it an invasion of privacy because Google has people drive around a constantly taking photos that later Are linked to addresses on an online How dare they take pictures of my City and my House without my permission what if the photographer catches me standing in my window in my underwear this be a Road map for stalkers and burglars its possible to imagine a slip Pery slope of bad but Mats Mak ing too much of Street its More High tech time waster than High tech voyeur ism and no different from what a pedestrian might see during a real believe we can think of better ways to pass the time than watching a month sold picture of a Street Corner in Manhattan or a neighbors House in a quiet Caulde its ironic that Street View has drawn More snarling than which capture mealtime images of Public spots across or consider the plethora of far More invasive personal information already available legally and illegally on the in those Are the real privacy so lets accept Street View for what it is a procrastinators american Benevolence is real the Charlotte observer americans gave nearly billion to Charity last breaking a 2005 record boosted by a swell of Aid to victims of Hurri canes Rita and Wilma and the asian individuals gave percent of the Dona Dee pocket donors such As invest ment icon Warren Buffett chipped in a Buffett gave billion of a Bil lion 20year pledge he made to the Bill and Melinda Gates but the Lessiel wheeled researchers found about 65 percent of households under gave to Char americans at All income Levels give unselfishly even when no dire emergency provides a visible the billion Given in 2006 represents a 1 percent boost adjusted for inflation Over the billion americans gave in according to an annual report monday from the nonprofit giving Usa based on research by the Center for philanthropy at Indiana if donations for disaster Relief Are 2006 giving jumped an inflation adjusted not All charitable giving went Howe charitable bequests so did corporate analysts say the corporate numbers Are Down because they had Given so much in 2005 in response to natural discs even with those mondays re port confirms the commitment of Ameri cans to those in among other nations and As a percentage of Gross Domestic prod the ranks first in giving per followed by Britain at giving by individuals in the Rose by percent percent adjusted for those Are numbers to be proud if you Pat yourself on the
