Articles filed under Opinion
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Winfrey's endorsement bound to give Obama a boost in Iowa caucusesDec 13, 2007 10:00 pm - DES MOINES, Iowa -- On Sunday, Mitch Stewart was a happy man. In a back room of the Barack Obama for President headquarters here, he was pawing through a mountain of car...
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Armed citizen used right to bear arms to save many livesDec 12, 2007 10:00 pm - I have been waiting for this to happen. For years we have witnessed the carnage when innocents were mowed down at schools, colleges, shopping malls and post offices. The...
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Barrier to needed charter schools is a product of bigotryDec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - HARLEM (or maybe not) -- Asked whether his brownstone residence is in Harlem, the Rev. Michel Faulkner says, well, that depends. "When something bad happens, the neighbo...
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Giuliani presents his case as a domestic, foreign policy leaderDec 06, 2007 10:00 pm - Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani was in Washington on Tuesday to raise money … and to see me. In a nondescript office building two blocks from the White H...
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Scientists -- not Bush -- deserve credit for stem cell breakthroughDec 06, 2007 10:00 pm - I have a friend who dedicated her first book to her husband "without whom this would never have been possible." Years later, when the husband was gone, she used to fanta...
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President's optimistic view of Middle East must pass test of timeDec 04, 2007 10:00 pm - Not since President Bush stood on the USS Abraham Lincoln May 1, 2003 with a "Mission Accomplished" sign behind him has he been as optimistic about progress in the Iraq ...
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Research vindicates Bush on his position on stem cell researchNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - "If human embryonic stem cell research does not make you at least a little bit uncomfortable, you have not thought about it enough." -- James A. Thomson A decade ago,...
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Thread of light runs through dark stories on foreclosure crisisNov 28, 2007 10:00 pm - No one takes pleasure in seeing unforeseen circumstances dishevel the lives of families. Yet, these stories can generate something more than sympathy. A fairly simple ma...
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Improved security in Iraq is cause for cautious optimismNov 27, 2007 10:00 pm - The signs of improvement in Iraq are clearer every week. The latest numbers show a 55 percent drop in attacks since the surge of U.S. troops reached full strength in Jun...
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Conservatives can't stray from mission of limits on governmentNov 24, 2007 10:00 pm - In the 1920s and '30s, the American left was riven by multiple factions furiously representing different flavors of socialism, each accusing the others of revisionism an...