Say What? What They’re Saying On Other Editorial Pages Around The Country
Bring back the old Bob Dole
Bob Dole declared Monday that Republicans “are the party of change.” He then promptly and regrettably demonstrated his own transformation from a deficit-cutting conservative to a tax-cutting risk taker.
Hoping to finish “the job Ronald Reagan started so brilliantly” in the 1980s, Dole proposed $548 billion in tax cuts.
Most voters remember, however, that Reagan’s targeted supply-side tax cuts led to record federal budget deficits as Congress continued to spend to strengthen defense and other government programs. … Dole, then a respected senator from Kansas, ridiculed so-called “supply-side” economics and championed tax increases and spending cuts.
Frankly, we liked the old Bob Dole better. … He did not believe that Republicans had to pander with tax cuts to win elections.
From an editorial in the Chicago Tribune
No Martian jokes, please. This might be serious.
A discovery of life on Mars, even primitive life in the very distant past, would have profound intellectual and philosophical implications. It would mark another step in the centuries-old process of moving humanity from the center of the universe. …
If life did form independently on two separate planets in our own small solar system, that would raise the likelihood that life might be found elsewhere in the universe as well. Creationists who find it difficult to accept the evolution of life on Earth might face even greater difficulties in coping with life evolving elsewhere.
Confirmation is surely needed before we let this inconclusive finding propel us too far toward an intensified hunt for life on other worlds or toward a drastic revision of science, theology or the federal space budget. But given the intergalactic speed with which science has advanced in this century, it would be prudent to hold the jokes.
From an editorial in The New York Times
Iran applauds split between U.S. and Europe
Iranians are really delighted to see the European reactions against the law signed by … President Bill Clinton … to punish foreign companies for investing in Iran’s oil and gas industries.
The Clinton administration’s move infuriated European countries and for the first time since the end of the Cold War, Europe with one voice refused to accept the dictated policies of the United States.
We suggest that Iran, Europe, and certain other countries set up an international conference to study terrorism in all its dimensions. The conference … could identify and remove all existing and future obstacles that prevent … cooperation of countries.
From an editorial in the Iran News, Tehran.
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