Today's editorial cartoon

VIEW FROM AWAY: Worry about rise in food stamps, not junk food

Is there any human impulse stronger than the urge to tell others what not to eat?

GEORGE SMITH: It would be less expensive if law enforcement officers specialized

We've got too much law enforcement -- and it's too expensive!

Nurses are nurses no matter what they wear

A recent article about quality and innovation in patient care by MaineGeneral, triggered a memory about nurses' uniforms -- oh, my, how they have changed.

We have right to know genetically modified foods

Large multinational corporations, such as Monsanto, have had the cards stacked in their favor for years, all at the expense of the American people and our country's domestic policy, ultimately compromising national security.

How can we legislate what some people eat?

Isn't it odd how the same politicians who complain that we regulate businesses and corporations too much are not shy about regulating individual citizens' behavior.

Today's editorial cartoon

VIEW FROM AWAY: Abortion bills would erode women's rights

With three first-degree murder verdicts against Kermit Gosnell, we can call him a baby-killer without the political freight that that term usually carries in the fight over abortion rights. There was no ambiguity in his actions, no debate over when a fetus becomes viable when he performed his illegal late-term abortions of some babies who were born alive.

VIEW FROM AWAY: Who decides to wage cyberwar, when and why?

The shadowy world of cybercrime was exposed in the recent federal indictment of eight men accused of manipulating computer networks and ATMs to steal $45 million over seven months. The heist combined sophisticated hacking with street-level hustle. In New York City alone, thieves struck 2,904 cash machines over 10 hours on a single day in February.

COMMENTARY: Americans need to adopt new attitude toward adoption

In today's America, a single woman facing a surprise pregnancy is likely to consider just two options: abortion or single motherhood. The third choice, adoption, carries such a social stigma that domestic placement of infants has plummeted -- even as the number of parents desperate for a baby grows.

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