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| Editorial Board: Too many government secrets Dec 25th 2012, 23:43 THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT keeps petabytes (that's a million gigabytes each) of information secret every year — some of it highly sensitive, some of it hardly. A 1972 diplomatic telegram that discusses the exchange of gifts between the United States and China — musk oxen from the Nixon administration in return for two Chinese pandas — was labeled confidential, and it wasn't declassified until 1997. Read full article >>   |  | Editorial Board: The Russian Duma's ill-considered adoption bill Dec 25th 2012, 23:27 THE ADOPTION OF children from abroad is fraught with emotions, and adoptions from Russia are no exception. Russia is the third-most favored place for adoptions by U.S. families, after China and Ethiopia. The adoptions have often led to bruised feelings of national pride. At the same time, many of the children enjoy a better life than if they had languished in Russia's grim institutions. It was with an eye toward improving the process of such adoptions that the United States and Russia approved a bilateral agreement in November. Read full article >>   | | Editorial Board: Applauding D.C. strides in social services Dec 25th 2012, 23:26 THE DISTRICT may not have made much progress this year in winning the right to budget autonomy or voting representation in Congress, but it made significant strides in showing its capabilities in managing local services. The decision by a federal judge to end court supervision of the transportation of special- education students is an important reminder of just how far the District has come from the awful years of an incompetent government that made a mockery of home rule. Read full article >>   | | Why Social Security is in Treasury bonds Dec 25th 2012, 23:18 The chutzpah of Richard W. Souther's Dec. 22 letter is stunning. He left out the reason the $3 trillion Social Security trust fund is in U.S. Treasury bonds: The Treasury borrowed the money from Social Security in the first place. (That's what bonds are: loans.) Am I to be held responsible for a little bit of the federal deficit every time I redeem one of my U.S. Savings Bonds? Read full article >> | | Santa Claus is good or bad for children Dec 25th 2012, 23:18 Thank you, Dante Chinni, for validating my beliefs about Santa Claus ["Instead of leaving cookies, let's give Santa the boot," Outlook, Dec. 23]. I raised four children, all adults now, without foisting on them a belief in Santa Claus, Saint Nicholas, Madame Befana or the Tooth Fairy. They are all well-adjusted and leading productive lives; they don't feel deprived. Read full article >>   | | Things better left unsaid Dec 25th 2012, 23:15 'Tis the season when columnists write mea culpas, make predictions and list their resolutions. Since my culpas are too vast for this tiny space, my predictions best in retrospect and my resolutions inevitably ignored, I thought I'd list a few resolutions for the rest of the world. These, too, are likely to be ignored, but I'll feel better getting a few things off my chest. Read full article >> | | The gun debate, from all sides Dec 25th 2012, 23:15 West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchinmade a number of interesting and reasonable suggestions in his Dec. 23 commentary ["Tipping Point?," Outlook]. But his comment that, if you blame the National Rifle Association for the school shootings in Newtown, Conn., you are in effect blaming all of its 4 million members is without basis. Read full article >>   | |
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