Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/742 opinion Opinion en-us Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:57:44 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/742 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts408 ynews/20090625/ynews_ts408 The Yahoo! Newsroom topstories Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:21:14 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts408"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/net/20090624/capt.11ea9e60a95a2864d18f268c4adb8cfe.jpeg?x=88&y=130&q=85&sig=qzNPRDhcrJ.C9J.smYLH9Q--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="In this file photo, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, Sept. 30, 2005, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)" border="0" /></a>The Yahoo! Newsroom - Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) is a senior member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and chairs the Senate panel that funds medical research and health care..</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts408"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/net/20090624/capt.11ea9e60a95a2864d18f268c4adb8cfe.jpeg?x=88&y=130&q=85&sig=qzNPRDhcrJ.C9J.smYLH9Q--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="photo" title="In this file photo, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, Sept. 30, 2005, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (The Yahoo! Newsroom) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_pl383 ynews/20090611/ynews_pl383 The Yahoo! Newsroom politics Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:30:18 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_pl383"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/net/20090610/capt.161545195cca3582b9290dd75fd02512.jpeg?x=106&y=130&q=85&sig=4.zIYI1A0mEVYaxKR6daww--" align="left" height="130" width="106" alt="In this file photo, Sen. Max Baucus, R-Mont., left, and Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., right, listen as Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., makes remarks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)" border="0" /></a>The Yahoo! Newsroom - Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) is the ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee and the former chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_pl383"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/net/20090610/capt.161545195cca3582b9290dd75fd02512.jpeg?x=106&y=130&q=85&sig=4.zIYI1A0mEVYaxKR6daww--" align="left" height="130" width="106" alt="photo" title="In this file photo, Sen. Max Baucus, R-Mont., left, and Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., right, listen as Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., makes remarks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (The Yahoo! Newsroom) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20090702/cm_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/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20090702/cm_huffpost/224360 huffpost/20090702/224360 HuffingtonPost.com opinion Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:35:08 GMT HuffingtonPost.com - Read John Farr's other articles on HuffingtonPost.com http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20090702/cm_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/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/20090630/cm_rcp/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/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/20090702/cm_rcp/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/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/20090702/cm_rcp/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/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/20090702/cm_rcp/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/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20090702/cm_csm/yhughesweb0702 csm/20090702/yhughesweb0702 The Christian Science Monitor opinion Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:00:00 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - President Obama's speech to the Islamic world was a splendid example of public diplomacy at its best. His message was sincere, his words eloquent, and his quotations from the Koran pertinent as he reached out beyond governments and political organizations to millions of ordinary Muslims. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20090702/cm_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/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucgg/20090702/cm_ucgg/latinamericasnewleftists ucgg/20090702/latinamericasnewleftists Georgie Anne Geyer opinion Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:57:44 GMT Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- For decades, even centuries, the bane of Latin American democracy has been the military takeover. Democrats from Guatemala to Peru and from Argentina to Chile have fought valiantly to keep political power from falling into the uncompromising hands of the generals. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucac/20090702/cm_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/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucas/20090702/cm_ucas/encouragingdiversityisnoexcuseforincompetentefforts ucas/20090702/encouragingdiversityisnoexcuseforincompetentefforts Cynthia Tucker opinion Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:42:14 GMT Cynthia Tucker - According to the U.S. Supreme Court, several white firefighters were treated unfairly by the city of New Haven, Conn., when it refused to promote them despite their high scores on a promotional exam. In a 5-4 decision handed down on Monday, the court ruled that the city should not have scrapped the test just because black firefighters performed poorly. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucmg/20090702/cm_ucmg/dukecaseraisesquestions ucmg/20090702/dukecaseraisesquestions Maggie Gallagher opinion Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:42:04 GMT Maggie Gallagher - Frank Lombard is a Duke University health official, a licensed social worker, a white, college-educated, legal father of two African-American boys, and according to federal authorities, a pedophile. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20090702/cm_uc_crlelx/op_2410516 uc/20090702/op_2410516 Larry Elder opinion Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT Larry Elder - "President Barack Obama says that he can pay for his goal to provide health care insurance for every American without it. Why isn't that good enough for you?" http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20090702/cm_uc_crjcox/op_4510514 uc/20090702/op_4510514 Joe Conason opinion Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT Joe Conason - If Americans hope to discuss health care, climate change, green economics or public infrastructure with any degree of realism, then the time has come to acknowledge that hearing someone say "a trillion dollars" is no reason to panic. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20090701/cm_uc_crmmax/op_1910510 uc/20090701/op_1910510 Michelle Malkin opinion Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT Michelle Malkin - Watchdogs are an endangered species in the Age of Obama. The latest government ombudsman to get the muzzle: Amtrak Inspector General Fred Weiderhold. The longtime veteran employee was abruptly "retired" this month &mdash; just as the government-subsidized rail service faces mounting complaints about its meddling in financial audits and probes. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20090701/cm_uc_crsesx/op_3910490 uc/20090701/op_3910490 Susan Estrich opinion Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT Susan Estrich - Is there still a revolution about to happen in Iran? http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20090701/cm_uc_crbbox/op_2310497 uc/20090701/op_2310497 Brent Bozell III opinion Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT Brent Bozell III - The surrealism of celebrity pop culture erupts when a major celebrity dies. The sudden, mysterious death of Michael Jackson caused a near-total eclipse of the real news. The cable-news channels blurred into 24-7 wailing walls for the so-called "King of Pop." Television ratings surged with a big ka-ching. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20090701/cm_uc_crrscx/op_1710511 uc/20090701/op_1710511 Robert Scheer opinion Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT Robert Scheer - How convenient for the judge and the media to paint Bernard Madoff as Mr. Evil, a uniquely venal blight on an otherwise responsible financial industry in which money is handled honestly and with transparency. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucru/20090630/cm_ucru/sorrymrbush ucru/20090630/sorrymrbush Ted Rall opinion Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:57:28 GMT Ted Rall - SEATTLE--I miss Bush.