05/08/2008 10:51 PM Editorial: Sen. Clinton and the Campaign We believe it is Senator Hillary Clinton’s right to stay in the fight and challenge Senator Barack Obama as long as she has the desire and the means to do so. 05/08/2008 10:55 PM Editorial: The Lucrative Art of War Companies enriched by taxpayers in the war boom should not be able to compound their profits by not paying their fair share of taxes. 05/08/2008 10:56 PM Editorial: Mr. Mugabe’s Cynical Plan After years of enabling Robert Mugabe, it is time for South Africa and all of Zimbabwe’s neighbors to enable democracy. 05/08/2008 10:56 PM Editorial: Down and Out in Connecticut The loss of manufacturing jobs, coupled with an achievement gap, is a recipe for perpetually worsening poverty. 05/08/2008 10:53 PM Letters: When Immigrants Die in Detention To the Editor:. 05/08/2008 10:52 PM Letter: Jack-Rabbit Habits To the Editor:. 05/08/2008 10:52 PM Letter: Help for Myanmar To the Editor:. 05/08/2008 10:52 PM Letter: Something About Austria? To the Editor:. 05/08/2008 11:20 PM Letter: Taxes and Oil Companies To the Editor:. 05/08/2008 11:20 PM Letter: Market Regulatory Reform To the Editor:.

05/09/2008 01:00 AM Letters to the editor Know when to say goodbye 05/09/2008 01:00 AM War's shopping cart Pepsi, Apple, Krispy Kreme and other consumer firms profit from Iraq too. Last month, a review of 2006 congressional financial disclosure statements by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics found that lawmakers have as much as $196 million "invested in companies doing business with the Defense Department, earning millions since the start of the Iraq war." An Associated Press article on the report, however, offered a caveat: "Not all the companies invested in by lawmakers are typical defense contractors. Corporations such as PepsiCo, IBM, Microsoft and Johnson & Johnson have at one point received defense-related contracts." 05/09/2008 01:00 AM This bud's for you, and you, and you too How I got my hands on some marijuana -- the legal (and easy) way. Sometimes I can't believe how Californian California is. Women walk around half-naked, waiters call patrons "dude," and medical marijuana is legal. But I wondered just how legal. Could anyone buy it? Even me, who doesn't have cancer, AIDS, arthritis, glaucoma or even any previous pot-smoking experience? 05/09/2008 01:00 AM No wasteful recalls Misuse of the recall process to settle political scores is no way to get the state out of the mess it's in. If anybody wonders why California's Legislature seems perennially incapable of solving the state's budget problems, fixing its disastrous prison system or improving its benighted schools, consider the strange case of the Denham recall. 05/09/2008 01:00 AM Bush's reading program doesn't pass President Bush touts accountability in education. So why is he trying to save the poorly run Reading First? With the No Child Left Behind Act, President Bush took a major role in bringing accountability to public education. No longer would the federal government give unfettered money to schools that weren't using it wisely to raise student achievement. Failing schools would be required to put Title I money toward offering private outside tutoring; over time, they could be shut down and revamped altogether. 05/08/2008 01:00 AM For some Palestinians, one state with Israel is better than none Frustrated by years of failed peace talks for a two-state solution, some are giving up hope of independence and pushing the idea of a single democratic state with equal rights for all. Frustrated by years of on-and-off peace talks with Israel, Palestinians are losing hope for an independent homeland, and some are proposing a radically different cause: a shared state with equal rights for Palestinians and Jews. 05/08/2008 01:00 AM Letters to the editor Taco trucks: Yum or yuck? 05/08/2008 01:00 AM China, India and Malthus How does the emergence of large, formerly poor countries (such as China and India) as major consumers affect the global economy and the environment? Gregory Clark and Gary Gardner debate. Today, Clark and Gardner discuss the increasing resource demands of developing nations. Previously, they debated government policies aimed at altering consumption habits, increasing food prices and the question of whether global trends in overall supply and demand portend a coming era of scarcity . They'll finish their Dust-Up tomorrow with a discussion on the future of green technology. 05/08/2008 01:00 AM Vandalism and art, writ large L.A. muralists often see their works ruined -- both by vandals with spray cans and numb skulls with paint rollers. Kent Twitchell's fabulous six-story mural of artist Ed Ruscha -- whitewashed. My my. Tsk tsk. What a shock. 05/08/2008 01:00 AM Government in secret The Yoo memo is just one example of Bush's hidden laws. The Bush administration recently announced it will allow select members of Congress to read Justice Department legal opinions about the CIA's controversial detainee interrogation program that have been hidden from Congress until now. But as the administration allows a glimpse of this secret law -- and it is law -- we are left wondering what other laws it is still keeping under lock and key.