Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/742 opinion Opinion en-us Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:04:15 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/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/huffpost/20090702/cm_huffpost/224447 huffpost/20090702/224447 HuffingtonPost.com opinion Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:45:04 GMT HuffingtonPost.com - Read Andy Worthington's other articles on HuffingtonPost.com http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20090704/cm_thenation/4448536 thenation/20090704/4448536 The Nation opinion Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:04:15 GMT The Nation - The Nation -- The first sentence of The Nation's prospectus, dated July 6, 1865, promised "the maintenance and diffusion of true democratic principles in society and government," surely a patriotic sentiment, as was the magazine's name. 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/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/ucrr/20090703/cm_ucrr/thisishowcongressworks ucrr/20090703/thisishowcongressworks Richard Reeves opinion Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:57:42 GMT Richard Reeves - LOS ANGELES -- There is a story Rep. Henry Waxman during hearings on steroid use in baseball that some say is apocryphal. But I believe it -- and we have been friends for more than 25 years. It is said that after the sensational hearing where Mark McGwire said he did not want to talk about the past, the congressman came into his office the next morning and said he was surprised there was so little coverage in the newspapers. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20090703/cm_uc_crlchx/op_2010532 uc/20090703/op_2010532 Linda Chavez opinion Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT Linda Chavez - The Supreme Court's decision this week in the New Haven firefighters case may cause problems for its newest prospective member, Judge Sonia Sotomayor. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20090703/cm_uc_crbbox/op_2310529 uc/20090703/op_2310529 Brent Bozell III opinion Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT Brent Bozell III - Dear Oliver, http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20090703/cm_uc_crpbux/op_3310534 uc/20090703/op_3310534 Pat Buchanan opinion Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT Pat Buchanan - Last Saturday, Honduran soldiers marched into the presidential palace, bundled up President Manuel Zelaya and put him on a plane for Costa Rica. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20090703/cm_uc_crmmax/op_1910538 uc/20090703/op_1910538 Michelle Malkin opinion Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT Michelle Malkin - The White House sure likes to put on a show. Fresh off its joint stage production with ABC News, the Obama administration broadcast another health-care propaganda play this week under the guise of a citizen "town hall." http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20090703/cm_uc_crmchx/op_510545 uc/20090703/op_510545 Mona Charen opinion Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT Mona Charen - One of President Obama's pretensions is the pose of objectivity. 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_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.