Opinion Stories from December 2, 2011 (Change date)
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Stop blaming teachers for broken systemDec 02, 2011 4:01 am - Public education. It almost seems like a bad word these days. The system is broken, and the future is pretty dismal as well. If teachers try to stand up for themselves a...
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Depends on how you define sentienceDec 02, 2011 4:01 am - Part of a line from a recent letter in the Fence Post: “The least we can do for sentient animals ...” This letter was written by one who believes that “The culling or ki...
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Israel should stop its bully tacticsDec 02, 2011 4:01 am - One recent article that disturbed me more than any other in the day’s Daily Herald was the one about Israel maintaining a hold on taxes due the Palestinians — just anoth...
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Woeful inaction on Sears dealDec 02, 2011 4:01 am - It’s a scary thing, in this economy, not to know whether your employer is sticking around or pulling up stakes for a move to another state. Thousands of suburban familie...
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Be leaders, not investment advisersDec 02, 2011 4:01 am - We elect political leaders, not investment advisers, not venture capitalists. We expect them to set policy and create conditions for good economic growth. In 2008 we see...
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A December to rememberDec 02, 2011 4:01 am - Seventy years ago this month, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and brought America into a war that had begun in Europe in 1939. In his masterful new book “December 194...
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Health care costs are the real culpritDec 02, 2011 4:01 am - Leftists seem to think that people have a right to have health care covered regardless of cost, and therefore the government should just compel insurance companies and t...
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Seeing a changing China from withinDec 02, 2011 4:01 am - BEIJING — Even the briefest acquaintance with this smoggy, sprawling capital is basis enough to conclude that much of the campaign rhetoric we’re hearing about China is ...
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Beware consequences of no-tax pledgeDec 02, 2011 4:01 am - Open letter to Sen. Mark Kirk and Reps. Robert Dold and Joe Walsh. Be careful what you ask for, because you may get it. As signors and supporters of the “no new tax ple...
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College coaches make too muchDec 02, 2011 4:01 am - I am appalled at the salaries that the coaches at universities receive. I am referring to the Fence Post article in the Nov. 20 newspaper. Some make from $2 million and ...
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