Print edition for September 23, 2007

Editorial: A reason to remember: As adjutant to the commandant of the Auschwitz death camp, SS Officer Karl Hocker kept a photo album filled with cheery and smiling faces of his comrades. There is no indication that these are the people responsible for the calculating mass exterminations of Jews and others deemed as enemies of the Third Reich.

When I asked the national boss of Planned Parenthood how she felt about the national leader of the Democratic Party being pro-life...: By Jon Ralston; When I asked the national boss of Planned Parenthood how she felt about the national leader of the Democratic Party being pro-life, she gave me a blank look. Cecile Richards' inability to pinpoint that man as Harry Reid (she might have thought I meant Howard Dean) was amusing. But her gushing about Reid all but being an honorary member of the group was stunning: "We really have an incredible friend and ally in Harry Reid. There is no one in the United States Senate who's working harder with us on issues of support for family planning, support for comprehensive sex ...

Voice of experience: By J. Patrick Coolican; Mike Gravel was given the Pentagon Papers at midnight outside the Mayflower Hotel in Washington D.C. in June 1971.

566673498.html: "In the eyes of the rest of the world, this country has shown itself to be one of the major problems of world order. Our desire to use power where and when we please has made us one of the world's most dangerous nations. I am not saying that other nations are more peace-loving. It is only that we have the power to be a danger to world peace with no constraints on our nation's leaders but their own moral judgment."

LOOKING IN ON: EDUCATION: By Emily Richmond; Want to infuriate parents? Tell them their child's school is switching to a year-round calendar. The Superintendent's Year-Round Study Group began its work a week ago and will examine test results, attendance records and studies in other parts of the country to better determine when a school's schedule is ripe for change.

Letter: Senate wasting time with MoveOn resolution: I don't recall the U.S. Senate passing nonbinding resolutions condemning the lying ads that Swift Boated Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and his record in Vietnam. (John McCain did, however, condemn the ads.)

Sun Staff Report: When the Southern Nevada real estate market was white hot a few years ago, mortgage companies came up with creative financing plans that made it easy for individuals who lacked the normal financial wherewithal to jump in.

Letter: Social Security would benefit from amnesty: This move would add untold thousands of new workers on payrolls across the nation and pump new blood into our Social Security system.

Speculators bear brunt of foreclosures: By Jeff German, Steve Kanigher, Alex Richards; If location, location and location are the most important factors in real estate, timing is not far behind.

Editorial: Last-minute legislation: The agency's new authority over drugs was tucked inside legislation that renews two FDA programs that collect fees from drug and medical device manufacturers. The fees help offset the FDA's costs of reviewing products submitted for agency approval. Without the legislation - which the House and Senate approved Wednesday and Thursday, respectively, and President Bush signed on Friday - the fee programs would have expired on Friday, forcing layoffs of about 2,000 agency employees.

Editorial: A failure to help: As reported by Timothy Pratt in the Las Vegas Sun on Thursday, the authority failed to use $4.4 million in housing vouchers.

Letter: Defeat in Iraq is simply not an option: He thinks Bush should work with Democrats or Iraq won't work. How can Bush work with Democrats when they continually undermine the war effort and want to pull out the troops, and when Harry Reid says that the war is lost?

SPECULATORS BEAR BRUNT OF FORECLOSURES: Jeff German, Steve Kanigher and Alex Richards; If location, location and location are the most important factors in real estate, timing is not far behind.

Jon Ralston envisions the sad and wacky possibilities of holding the next O.J. trial in Judge Halverson's courtroom: By Jon Ralston; Judge Elizabeth Halverson snapped awake and smiled as she surveyed the crowded courtroom and focused her gaze on O.J. Simpson.

WHERE I STAND Brian Greenspun shares a message of peace written by his father nearly 34 years ago that is relevant today: On October 5, 1973 , my father, Hank Greenspun, wrote a column with a message of peace that followed Israel's existential Yom Kippur war. Its message has as much meaning today, as our country faces new challenges from men of ill will as it did in those more hopeful days following victory over the Arab armies.

A HAND UP: Marshall Allen, Las Vegas Sun; Manish Desai walked into the exhibit hall looking for a new left arm. His had been amputated because of cancer, and visiting the Sands Convention Center on Thursday was like walking into a super store for prosthetics and their accessories.