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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/most-popular/emailed/opinion Most Emailed - Opinion en-us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:05:27 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/most-popular/emailed/opinion http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100208/cm_csm/278873 csm/20100208/278873 The Christian Science Monitor opinion Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:04:50 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - As the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) turns 100 today, its millions of alumni will nostalgically recall canoe trips, campfires, and hikes along country roads, and wonder what to expect from the future for this iconic American institution. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20100208/cm_huffpost/453666 huffpost/20100208/453666 HuffingtonPost.com opinion Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:40:01 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20100208/cm_huffpost/453666"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100204/capt.photo_1265296976733-1-0.jpg?x=96&y=130&q=85&sig=NRXChIxu2wqAWBhbDT1Jcg--" align="left" height="130" width="96" alt="Leading Democratic Representative Jerrold Nadler, seen here in 2009, blasted the US Supreme Court on Wednesday for "judicial activism" over a ruling that relaxes campaign finance rules.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)" border="0" /></a>HuffingtonPost.com - In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling that corporations can spend an unlimited amount of money on political campaigns, the landscape has grown ripe for the passage of strict campaign finance legislation.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20100208/cm_huffpost/453666"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100204/capt.photo_1265296976733-1-0.jpg?x=96&y=130&q=85&sig=NRXChIxu2wqAWBhbDT1Jcg--" align="left" height="130" width="96" alt="photo" title="Leading Democratic Representative Jerrold Nadler, seen here in 2009, blasted the US Supreme Court on Wednesday for "judicial activism" over a ruling that relaxes campaign finance rules.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (HuffingtonPost.com) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20100209/cm_uc_crpbux/op_3312888 uc/20100209/op_3312888 Pat Buchanan opinion Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT Pat Buchanan - They are called the PIGS &mdash; Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain. What they have in common is that all are facing deficits and debts that could bring on national defaults and break up the European Union. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100208/cm_csm/278477 csm/20100208/278477 The Christian Science Monitor opinion Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:25:00 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - The American financial industry has become too big for its britches. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20100205/cm_uc_crmmax/op_1912866 uc/20100205/op_1912866 Michelle Malkin opinion Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT Michelle Malkin - If only the federal government were as responsible with our money as Pepsi is with theirs. The soda giant has been in the Super Bowl ad business for more than two decades. But this year, Pepsi determined it was economically unwise to pay $3 million for a 30-second spot. So, who's foolish enough to pay for Super Bowl gold-plated airtime? You and me and Washington, D.C. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20100205/cm_uc_crpbux/op_3312868 uc/20100205/op_3312868 Pat Buchanan opinion Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT Pat Buchanan - Republicans already counting the seats they will pick up this fall should keep in mind Obama has a big card yet to play. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20100208/cm_thenation/7527600 thenation/20100208/7527600 The Nation opinion Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:12:12 GMT The Nation - The Nation -- With a nod to Rick Perlstein, Welcome to Palinland. Atop Palinland's Mount Rushmore are Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater. Palinland's Bill of Rights has been edited and redacted, reordered and revised with red ink: in Palinland, the Fifth and Sixth Amendments that ensure due process and the rights of the accused are merely suggestive measures to be administered based on the emotional whim of a carefully-harnessed fear and a fervently-stoked anger. And in Palinland, the Tenth Amendment's reservation of power for the individual states is paramount, a necessary protection for a people whose government is supposedly hell-bent on destroying them. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/20100208/cm_rcp/obama_coddles_wall_street realclearpolitics/20100208/obama_coddles_wall_street RealClearPolitics.com opinion Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT RealClearPolitics.com - In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama said: "We face a deficit of trust -- deep and corrosive doubts about how Washington works that have been growing for years. To close that credibility gap, we have to take action on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue -- to end the outsized influence of lobbyists; to do our work openly; to give the people the government they deserve." http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucru/20100205/cm_ucru/thecontrarianmanifesto ucru/20100205/thecontrarianmanifesto Ted Rall opinion Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:58:56 GMT Ted Rall - Boom or Bust? We're Always Wrong http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20100208/cm_huffpost/453723 huffpost/20100208/453723 HuffingtonPost.com opinion Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:58:42 GMT HuffingtonPost.com - Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is asking the largest for-profit health insurer in California to "provide a detailed justification" for expected rate increases that could hike its consumers' premiums as much as 39 percent. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20100205/cm_uc_crmchx/op_512865 uc/20100205/op_512865 Mona Charen opinion Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT Mona Charen - Barack Obama assumed the presidency determined not just to promote certain policies but to tidy up our minds as well. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/20100209/cm_rcp/a_rand_revival realclearpolitics/20100209/a_rand_revival RealClearPolitics.com opinion Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:00:00 GMT RealClearPolitics.com - Ayn Rand, the controversial Russian-born American writer, would have turned 105 years old on February 2. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucrr/20100209/cm_ucrr/partyontherevoltoftheold ucrr/20100209/partyontherevoltoftheold Richard Reeves opinion Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:59:08 GMT Richard Reeves - LOS ANGELES -- My favorite Tea Party guy is Merle Firestone from Rainbow, Miss., who left home at 4 a.m. last Saturday morning to drive to Nashville. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucac/20100204/cm_ucac/matthewsandolbermannnowopenlyfightingoverobama ucac/20100204/matthewsandolbermannnowopenlyfightingoverobama Ann Coulter opinion Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:22:37 GMT Ann Coulter - In a "Special Report" on the president's question-and-answer session with Republicans last Friday, MSNBC's jock-sniffers Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow produced a museum-quality show: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20100205/cm_uc_crlchx/op_2012863 uc/20100205/op_2012863 Linda Chavez opinion Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT Linda Chavez - Abstinence-only sex education has been a favorite target of the cultural elite, who argued it was naive at best and dangerous at worst. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100208/cm_csm/278883 csm/20100208/278883 The Christian Science Monitor opinion Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:50:42 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - For anyone who ever doubted the saintliness of new technology, here is grisly proof: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20100208/cm_thenation/1527969 thenation/20100208/1527969 The Nation opinion Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:53:46 GMT The Nation - The Nation -- Pennsylvania Congressman John Murtha, the old soldier who looked like and in so many ways was a member of the Democratic establishment of another time, broke with the leadership of his own party and the opposition Republicans at a critical point in 2005 to say it was time to bring the troops home from Iraq. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20100208/cm_huffpost/452602 huffpost/20100208/452602 HuffingtonPost.com opinion Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:48:57 GMT HuffingtonPost.com - Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin didn't cage her answer when pressed Sunday morning as to whether she would consider a run for president in 2012. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20100209/cm_huffpost/454437 huffpost/20100209/454437 HuffingtonPost.com opinion Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:08:50 GMT HuffingtonPost.com - In a move that will further irritate his Democratic critics, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) announced on Monday evening that he would not just oppose but also help filibuster President Barack Obama's nominee to a key labor relations agency http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailedop/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100208/cm_csm/278970 csm/20100208/278970 The Christian Science Monitor opinion Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:11:00 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - In Ukraine, presidential elections look to have brought the country full circle. Voters have apparently returned to support Viktor Yanukovich, the villain in the country’s democratic "Orange Revolution" of 2004.