http://www.wayneindependent.com/section/OPINION wayneindependent.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:43:56 +0000 http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130618/OPINION/130619793/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:58:27 http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130618/OPINION/130619793/1007/OPINION http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130617/NEWS/130619900/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Mon, 17 Jun 2013 2:14:00 +0000 By Kathleen Parker, Washington Post http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130617/NEWS/130619900/1007/OPINION Most of us donned our Mao suits, bow ties and sensible shoes and did our best to blend in. The workplace didn’t become more feminine; women became more masculine.
Then along came “Sex and the City.” The new working girl was glam, femmed-out to the max in sheer tops, short skirts and stilettos. She was brash, tough (neurotic), and [...]]]> http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130616/NEWS/130619901/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Sun, 16 Jun 2013 2:10:00 +0000 By Eugene Robinson, Washington Post http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130616/NEWS/130619901/1007/OPINION Snowden is the 29-year-old intelligence analyst and computer geek who has been leaking some of the National Security Agency’s most precious secrets to journalists from The Washington Post and the Guardian. He is now on the lam, having checked out of the Hong [...]]]> http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130615/NEWS/130619902/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Sat, 15 Jun 2013 2:07:00 +0000 By E.J. Dionne, Washington Post http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130615/NEWS/130619902/1007/OPINION Michael Lind, the independent-minded scholar, posed one such question last week about libertarianism that I hope will shake up the political world. I’ll get to his query in a moment. It’s important because many in the new generation of conservative politicians declare libertarianism as their core political philosophy.
Libertarians have the [...]]]> http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130614/NEWS/130619903/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Fri, 14 Jun 2013 2:03:00 +0000 By Esther Cepeda, Washington Post http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130614/NEWS/130619903/1007/OPINION But I’m with him on this one.
Truth be told, reading “Joyland” will be a minor inconvenience -- if one can reasonably say such a thing about acquiring and consuming a bound, paper tome filled with the master storyteller’s hanging-on-the-edge-of-your- [...]]]> http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130613/OPINION/130619878/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:30:05 http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130613/OPINION/130619878/1007/OPINION http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130613/NEWS/130619904/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Thu, 13 Jun 2013 2:01:00 +0000 By Dana Milbank, Washington Post http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130613/NEWS/130619904/1007/OPINION “For me, it is literally -- not figuratively, literally -- gut-wrenching to see this happen,” James Clapper told NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell over the weekend, referring to leaks about the government’s secret program to collect vast troves of phone and Internet data.
There might be a bit more sympathy for Clapper’s digestive difficulty if he hadn’t delivered a [...]]]> http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130612/NEWS/130619941/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Wed, 12 Jun 2013 2:01:00 +0000 By George Will, Washington Post http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130612/NEWS/130619941/1007/OPINION These immortal measures just received the Senate’s benediction because they illustrate the only law Washington can [...]]]> http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130611/OPINION/130619930/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Wed, 12 Jun 2013 0:00:00 +0000 http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130611/OPINION/130619930/1007/OPINION http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130611/NEWS/130619960/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Tue, 11 Jun 2013 2:01:00 +0000 By Michael Gerson, Washington Post http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130611/NEWS/130619960/1007/OPINION At some point, the word “worst” -- already a superlative -- ceases to be [...]]]> http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130610/OPINION/130619975/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Tue, 11 Jun 2013 0:00:00 +0000 http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130610/OPINION/130619975/1007/OPINION http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130610/NEWS/130619974/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:39:31 By Kelly Waters kwaters@wayneindependent.com http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130610/NEWS/130619974/1007/OPINION http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130610/NEWS/130619999/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Mon, 10 Jun 2013 2:00:00 +0000 By Eugene Robinson, Washington Post http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130610/NEWS/130619999/1007/OPINION I have to throw in all those qualifiers because Manning’s prosecution has been largely a secret process. Portions of his court-martial, which opened Monday at Fort Meade, Md., will be secret as [...]]]> http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130609/NEWS/130609932/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Sun, 9 Jun 2013 2:00:00 +0000 By Kathleen Parker, Washington Post http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130609/NEWS/130609932/1007/OPINION Maureen Dowd attempted to answer this question with her 2005 book, “Are Men Necessary?” I responded three years later with “Save the Males.”
With each generation, the question becomes more declarative and querulous. Recent demographic shifts show women gaining supremacy across a spectrum of quantitative measures, [...]]]> http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130608/NEWS/130609933/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Sat, 8 Jun 2013 2:00:00 +0000 By Dana Milbank, Washington Post http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130608/NEWS/130609933/1007/OPINION Asked by Fox’s Bill Hemmer what he hoped to learn at Monday afternoon’s hearing, Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers, R-Ky., offered this bit of pre-hearing analysis:
“Of course, the enemies list out of the [...]]]> http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130607/OPINION/130609846/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Sat, 8 Jun 2013 0:00:00 +0000 http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130607/OPINION/130609846/1007/OPINION http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130607/NEWS/130609934/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Fri, 7 Jun 2013 2:00:00 +0000 By George Will, Washington Post http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130607/NEWS/130609934/1007/OPINION Seven-term Democrat Pat [...]]]> http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130606/OPINION/130609868/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Fri, 7 Jun 2013 0:00:00 +0000 http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130606/OPINION/130609868/1007/OPINION http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130606/NEWS/130609935/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Thu, 6 Jun 2013 2:00:00 +0000 By Esther Cepeda, Washington Post http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130606/NEWS/130609935/1007/OPINION As reported in The Wall Street Journal, Romney is planning on re-emerging in ways that will “help shape national priorities,” such as assisting the Republican Party as it tries to regain its footing with the non-white voters who ignored the GOP standard-bearer at the polls in 2012.
Yes, the man known for favoring the term “self-deportation” and offending scores of Hispanics by using the word “illegals” [...]]]> http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130605/OPINION/130609906/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Thu, 6 Jun 2013 0:00:00 +0000 http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20130605/OPINION/130609906/1007/OPINION