Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1771 Most Recommended Opinion en-us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:47:49 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/1771 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucac/somuchforwiselatinas ucac/20090702/somuchforwiselatinas Ann Coulter opinion Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:15:27 GMT Ann Coulter - With the Supreme Court's decision in Ricci v. DeStefano this week, we can now report that Sonia Sotomayor is even crazier than Ruth Bader Ginsburg. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucru/sorrymrbush ucru/20090630/sorrymrbush Ted Rall opinion Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:57:28 GMT Ted Rall - SEATTLE--I miss Bush. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/left_dodges_moral_debate_on_ricci_case realclearpolitics/20090630/left_dodges_moral_debate_on_ricci_case RealClearPolitics.com opinion Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT RealClearPolitics.com - It took the story of one firefighter to expose the tension between fairness and affirmative action. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/politics_takes_chunk_out_of_white_house_payroll realclearpolitics/20090702/politics_takes_chunk_out_of_white_house_payroll RealClearPolitics.com opinion Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/politics_takes_chunk_out_of_white_house_payroll"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090623/i/r489046897.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=W2NRnX3fBVFpHvcrT915xw--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel listens to U.S. President Barack Obama during a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington June 23, 2009. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES POLITICS)" border="0" /></a>RealClearPolitics.com - During his two months on the campaign trail as Barack Obama's running mate, Joe Biden was fond of sharing his father's witticisms with audiences to illustrate a point. One of the more common ones went something like this: "Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value."</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/politics_takes_chunk_out_of_white_house_payroll"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090623/i/r489046897.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=W2NRnX3fBVFpHvcrT915xw--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="photo" title="White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel listens to U.S. President Barack Obama during a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington June 23, 2009. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES POLITICS)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (RealClearPolitics.com) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/ysanchez csm/20090702/ysanchez The Christian Science Monitor opinion Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:00:00 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - Sometimes, the whole world prefers a lie to the truth. The White House, the United Nations, the Organization of American States, and much of the media have condemned the ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya this past weekend as a coup d'état. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/917448105 thenation/20090702/917448105 The Nation opinion Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:56:18 GMT The Nation - The Nation -- The corrupting influence of monied interests is so established by now, such a dog-bites-man story that it can be hard to find novel and compelling ways to retell it. But luckily for us chroniclers of same the sheer depth, breath and audacity of the corruption continues to grow at such a pace that tracking its outer edges makes for good (but depressing) copy. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/15448238 thenation/20090702/15448238 The Nation opinion Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:09:17 GMT The Nation - The Nation -- It's not only neocons who desperately need enemies, like Ahmadinejad, to succeed so that they'll have an excuse to bomb bomb bomb Iran, or any place they damn well please. It's also the paleocons and the concons (conspiracy conservatives), or whatever Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA's bin Laden unit, could be called these days. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/edetainees csm/20090702/edetainees The Christian Science Monitor opinion Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:00:00 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - Soon after taking up his White House tasks, the idealistic Barack Obama of the 2008 campaign got mugged by the reality of being America's commander in chief. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/1096447844 thenation/20090701/1096447844 The Nation opinion Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:36:27 GMT The Nation - The Nation -- It's encouraging that General Jim Jones, the national security adviser, seems to have laid down the law to US generals in Afghanistan: no more troops. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/1448486 thenation/20090703/1448486 The Nation opinion Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:47:49 GMT The Nation - The Nation -- Maybe Sarah Palin finally realized that the people who run the Republican party just aren't that into her. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/15447431 thenation/20090630/15447431 The Nation opinion Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:33:08 GMT The Nation - The Nation -- When Governor Mark Sanford was merely thought to be clearing his mind on the Appalachian Trial on Naked Hiking Day and all the nanny-state fuss-budgets and media finger-pointers were freaking out, Joe Scarborough knew better: His pal Sanford was the real tax-hating, stimulus-refusing, rugged individual deal, a John Wayne 2.0 who'd stroll back into South Carolina's capital without a care in the world. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/ycampbell csm/20090630/ycampbell The Christian Science Monitor opinion Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:00:00 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - It's almost impossible to go a full day without hearing the words "Hi, Billy Mays here" at least once.