http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Other Views 60 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:26:28 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1320906.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1320906.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST As I was talking recently with the founder of a large American corporation, the conversation turned (inevitably) to healthcare reform. His employees in their 20s, on average, cost the company about $1,500 a year in health bills. Those in their 50s cost at least 10 times more. The effect of proposed healthcare reform -- which limits the ability of insurers to charge higher premiums for older adults -- would be, he said, a large shift of America's healthcare burden to the younger generation. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1321137.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1321137.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Below are excerpts from AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka's recent testimony before the House Financial Services Committee:<p/>Our members were not invited to Wall Street's party but we have paid for it with devastated pension funds, lost jobs, and public bailouts of private sector losses. Our goal is a financial system that is transparent, accountable and stable, that is the servant of the real economy rather than its master. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1321130.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1321130.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST It's been 11 years since I looked through a photo album smuggled out of Afghanistan by a brave young woman. ``This is a doctor,'' she said, pointing to one picture. ``This is a teacher.'' It was impossible to tell one woman from another under the burqas enforced by their Taliban rulers. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1321120.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1321120.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST There's little I can add to the big news about the secret kept for decades by Juanita Castro: Her valiant collaboration with the CIA to save from imprisonment and execution the democrats of the domestic opposition whom her brothers Fidel and Raúl crushed with such virulence. Her memoirs and statements testify to her private crusade. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1321115.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1321115.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Since the time of the American Revolution, this country has had a military comprised almost entirely of citizen volunteers. Until the First World War almost all of our wars were fought close to home, which helped the military retain high visibility and rapport with the civilian population. This gave the people the sense, and in many cases literally, that they were personally being protected. Frequently it was a father, brother or son fighting a hundred miles or less from home. The military were heroes, the good guys who were lauded in songs and novels. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1319266.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1319266.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Despite the global recession, the sounds of construction are well underway along the pathway that brings about 2.1 million tons of general cargo to Miami's port each year after passing through the Panama Canal. Along the canal, cranes and bulldozers hum as reminders that, yes, in fact, things will get better. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1319265.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1319265.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Harry Truman could've taught Barack Obama a thing or two about how to deal with a hostile press -- basically, by ignoring it. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1319271.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1319271.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST With the ``reelection'' of President Hamid Karzai, if that's the right word for a process that featured fraudulent balloting and a canceled runoff, the United States now confronts the hardest puzzle of all about Afghanistan: How to improve governance there -- which most experts agree is essential to defeat the Taliban -- without taking even more control from Afghan officials? http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1317889.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1317889.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Anyone familiar with the Honduras crisis can be forgiven for being skeptical about the viability of last week's agreement to end the four-month deadlock between opposing political forces in that shaken Central American nation. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1317888.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1317888.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The Obama administration may be going down a dead end. In an Oct. 13 meeting with Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Obama said: ``Tell Raúl that if he doesn't take steps, I won't be able to go further.'' A few days later the Spanish foreign minister met with Raúl Castro. We don't know if he delivered the message. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1317887.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1317887.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Ayear after Barack Obama's election stirred broad hopes for change among American voters, persistent high unemployment and the spectacle of continued gridlock in Washington threaten Democratic dominance of the political landscape. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1314863.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1314863.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00 EST There's a new sheriff in town and his name is John V. Gillies. Not the sheriff, actually, but the new Special Agent in Charge of the Miami FBI Division, which makes him more powerful than a sheriff. Local politicians take note. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/inbox/story/1324615.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/inbox/story/1324615.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:57 EST When almost the first word a child says, as she points to the night sky, is `` moon,'' you feel duty-bound to cultivate that interest, if not to start putting aside tuition money for Young Astronauts Camp. So on the 40th anniversary of the first Apollo landing, I was happy to watch, with my granddaughter Julia, age 9, NASA-channel films of the manned moon missions. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/inbox/story/1320609.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/inbox/story/1320609.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:22 EST We are speeding toward climate ``catastrophe,'' U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned the World Climate Conference in Geneva two months ago.<p/> The seas could rise 7 feet and wash over coasts, river deltas and low-lying islands, and the time to prevent the threatening flood is now, the U.N. leader said as he implored the world's leaders to sign a new climate agreement when the so-called Kyoto II conference meets in Copenhagen from Dec. 7 to 17. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1325241.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1325241.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The breaking news about Fort Hood made me cringe.<p/> Like most Muslims, I hoped the shooter would be a Smith or Jones, while some smirked and gleefully waited for a Muslim name to say, I told you so. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1325237.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1325237.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Twenty years ago, the rubble of the Berlin Wall crashed down loudly onto Marxism and pulverized it. Something that, paradoxically, confirmed Marx's opinion about theories, which he explained in his Theses on Feuerbach: ``It is in practice that man must prove the truth, i.e., the reality and power, the worldliness [Diesseitigkeit] of his thinking.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1325227.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1325227.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Work began this past weekend on one of America's newest national parks. The families of the people aboard Flight 93, which went down in Somerset, Pa., in the Sept. 11 attacks, will gather at the crash site today for the ceremonial groundbreaking. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1325220.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1325220.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Acouple weeks before Veterans Day, I went down to the World War II Memorial on the Mall to join Bob and Elizabeth Dole and a group of elderly soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen from her hometown of Salisbury, N.C. They had been flown to Washington that morning to get their first view of the nation's tribute to the troops that helped defeat Hitler's forces. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1323701.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1323701.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The ninth day of November is laden with meaning in Germany. Two of those dates in the 20th century, 1938 and 1989, have special significance and everlasting lessons, http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1323707.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1323707.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST On Nov. 9, 1989, I found myself on the eastern side of the Berlin Wall in the apartment of a dissident Lutheran pastor whose church provided safe haven for disaffected East Germans. http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1323711.html http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1323711.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Iwatch Howard Kurtz's Reliable Sources media-review show most Sunday mornings on CNN. That's partly because since Fox News scrapped its weekly News Watch, it's the only regular program on national television that looks at the news media critically. That's also because Kurtz, The Washington Post's chief media writer, does a good job bringing in knowledgeable people to talk about the major traps the media fell into that week.