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October 7, 2000

Editorials
Florida kids still need the funds
Accusations are flying over who's to blame for Florida's failure to spend millions in federal funds meant to buy health insurance for low-income kids. State officials say the feds were unrealistic to expect that all the money -- $270-million over three years -- could be spent so quickly. The feds fault state administrators for not moving aggressively enough to sign up more kids.

A decorous debate
Dick Cheney and Joseph Lieberman were more mature and articulate than George W. Bush and Al Gore had been two nights earlier.

A heavy-handed secrets act
A bit of mischief has been made part of an intelligence authorization bill that is now in House-Senate conference committee. If allowed to remain, America would have its first version of an "Official Secrets Act."

Letters
Seniors shouldn't expect handouts from government
Re: Read my mail: No new benefits, by Michelle Malkin, Sept. 30.  

Perspective
Taking jobs, alienating customers
For weeks Americans have been told that the outsourcing of high-tech jobs is good for our economy. So said Greg Mankiw, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers in a recent report signed by President Bush. So, too, writes Thomas Friedman of the New York Times in articles praising the rise of call centers in India used for everything from making airline reservations and reading medical X-ray films to providing tech support for American computer firms.

Philip Gailey: Democrats fall off campaign finance reform wagon
Well, what do you know. Soft money is back, and it's making hypocrites of all those Democrats who fervently championed the McCain-Feingold campaign reform law, not to mention those Republicans who objected to the law's restrictions on issue advocacy.

Bill Maxwell: Who is for the farm worker?
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is touting legislation to improve the lives of Florida's 300,000-plus farm workers, who endure institutional and systemic injustices each day in our fields and groves and their personal lives.

Robyn E. Blumner: For some defendants, an American gulag
In Bernard Malamud's masterpiece The Fixer, inmate Yakov Bok was subjected to psychological torture in a Soviet gulag through the humiliations of constant shackling and repeated strip searches.