U.N. chair pick shows Libya's irony in rights debate
Our view argues the choice of Libya to chair the U N Human Rights Commission reveals the UN’s flawed basis for moral authority. It contends that U S reliance on the UN inspection regime risks ceding autonomy while delaying decisive action against Iraq amid broader anti terror concerns.
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Public Forum Contact Details for Odessa OA
Readers are invited to submit opinions on any issue by WRITE FAX or E MAIL to the Odessa American Public Forum. Include a mailing address for publication and reference to the topic.
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Texas lawmakers contact details for state officials
Lawmakers and officials listed with office boxes and addresses in Austin and their home cities. Representative George West of Odessa, Representative Tom Craddick of Midland, Senator Robert Duncan of Lubbock and Odessa, Senator Tee Bivins of Amarillo, and Governor Rick Perry in Austin are provided with multiple mailing options for correspondence.
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Envy under pressure from modern politics and economics
In his syndicated column Thomas Sowell argues envy has become a major industry led by politicians and the intelligentsia in the social justice movement. He notes persistent inequality but shows many Americans move between income brackets over time, challenging the premise of perpetual deprivation and the urgency of withholding excess for policy goals.
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Mend, don't end, death penalty wasn't right says Cal Thomas
Cal Thomas argues that Governor Ryan's clemency of over 160 death row inmates was a miscarriage of justice and that flaws in the capital punishment system can be fixed without abolishing the death penalty. He defends the death penalty for the most heinous crimes and criticizes the blanket mercy as dictatorship-like.
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