Monday, November 22, 2004

House Editorial

Jim Taricani, a broadcast journalist in Rhode Island, was found guilty of contempt of court Nov. 18 after he refused to reveal who provided him with a videotape he aired in 2001. The tape showed an aide to former Providence Mayor Vincent Cianci Jr. accepting a bribe. Taricani acted legally in airing it, but was held in contempt of court after he failed to reveal to a special prosecuter the source who had violated court orders in leaking the tape to him.

Through Murky Waters

Intelligence work is necessarily unsavory at times, but that unsavory nature should never transform into a lack of ethics in the Central Intelligence Agency offices. CIA director Porter Goss has crossed that line by encouraging his employees to support the administration’s policies and, by so doing, has put the country in danger.

Woman’s holy sandwich fits God's plan

An Outsider's Perspective

It is quite an amazing thing when two unmistakable powers combine forces toward a common goal. Whether it is AOL and Time magazine ganging up on the world to control all of your information, or Scooby and the gang asking for the help of the Harlem Globe Trotters to solve a mystery, the new super team usually produces marvelous results.

Religion should not guide President's policy

Breeze Perspectives

"I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President who happens to be Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters, and the church does not speak for me," John F. Kennedy said upon being elected President in 1960.