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, 3 Dec 2013 1:52:28 +0000 http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131202/NEWS/131209987/-1/opinion?rssfeed=true Mon, 2 Dec 2013 12:17:51 By E.J. Dionne http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131202/NEWS/131209987/-1/opinion Pope Francis has surprised the world because he embraces the Christian calling to destabilize and to challenge. As the first leader of the Catholic Church from the Southern Hemisphere, he is especially mindful of the ways in which unregulated [...]]]> http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131128/NEWS/131129874/-1/opinion?rssfeed=true Thu, 28 Nov 2013 2:01:00 +0000 By Esther Cepeda http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131128/NEWS/131129874/-1/opinion Just because some people thought the man who wrote the 1910 self-help book “The Science of Getting Rich” was something of a spiritual charlatan doesn’t mean that his take on giving thanks is any less true or relevant today.
However, at a time when more than 13 million self-described [...]]]> http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131127/NEWS/131129873/-1/opinion?rssfeed=true Wed, 27 Nov 2013 2:01:00 +0000 By Dana Milbank http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131127/NEWS/131129873/-1/opinion A couple of minutes after 9 p.m. on Saturday, word crossed the news wires that negotiators in Geneva had reached an agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. Then, at 9:08 p.m. -- before any details of the pact were known -- Ari Fleischer delivered his opinion on the agreement, via Twitter.
“The Iran deal and our allies: You can’t spell abandonment without OBAMA,” he wrote. [...]]]> http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131126/NEWS/131129880/-1/opinion?rssfeed=true Tue, 26 Nov 2013 11:48:27 By Eugene Robinson http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131126/NEWS/131129880/-1/opinion If Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had gone home empty-handed, we would likely be drifting toward war. Iran’s uranium-enrichment centrifuges would continue whirling until it became unambiguously clear that the nation, if it chose, could make a “breakout” dash [...]]]> http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131125/NEWS/131129898/-1/opinion?rssfeed=true Mon, 25 Nov 2013 17:39:13 By E.J. Dionne http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131125/NEWS/131129898/-1/opinion In fact, seeing the world as it is rather than pining for a world that no longer exists is a precondition for reducing polarization down the road. With their dramatic decision, Senate Democrats have frankly [...]]]> http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131122/NEWS/131129921/-1/opinion?rssfeed=true Fri, 22 Nov 2013 12:32:57 By Charles Krauthammer http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131122/NEWS/131129921/-1/opinion The only reason Iran has come to the table after a decade of contemptuous stonewalling is that economic sanctions have cut so deeply -- Iran’s currency has collapsed, inflation is rampant -- that the regime [...]]]> http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131122/NEWS/131129951/-1/opinion?rssfeed=true Fri, 22 Nov 2013 2:01:00 +0000 By Matthew T. Mangino http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131122/NEWS/131129951/-1/opinion The murder of President John F. Kennedy continues to fascinate and disturb people around the globe. The killing has been investigated and analyzed, reviewed and written about, videotaped and dramatized, and is unequivocally the most talked about criminal event in the last 100 years.
Although Kennedy’s death is seared into the American psyche, there is so much more to the man than his demise. The [...]]]> http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131121/NEWS/131129949/-1/opinion?rssfeed=true Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:20:19 By E.J. Dionne http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131121/NEWS/131129949/-1/opinion It tells us a great deal about the meaning of†John F. Kennedy in our history that liberals and conservatives alike are so eager to pronounce him as one of their own.
The evidence points to a man who began his political career [...]]]> http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131120/NEWS/131129956/-1/opinion?rssfeed=true Wed, 20 Nov 2013 16:25:08 By Kathleen Parker http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131120/NEWS/131129956/-1/opinion Simile, to refresh memories, is a favorite rhetorical device of writers that compares two essentially unlike things that nonetheless have similar characteristics: The quarterback was like a locomotive.
Sui generis, the Latin phrase meaning unique or one of a kind, is a helpful restraint upon the former. Some things, even if they share certain characteristics, shouldn’t be compared. Sui generis is the braking system on a rhetorical locomotive, or at [...]]]> http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131119/NEWS/131119837/-1/opinion?rssfeed=true Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:15:53 By Peter Costa http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131119/NEWS/131119837/-1/opinion It was an era whose greatest products were the millions of truckloads of cement as the administration chose to build infrastructure with its national highway program.
It was a time when what was good for General Motors was good for America.
A majority of women seemed happy to work in their chromium kitchens, raise the children and be the motivating force behind the successful man. [...]]]> http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131119/NEWS/131119840/-1/opinion?rssfeed=true Tue, 19 Nov 2013 11:06:00 By Eugene Robinson http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131119/NEWS/131119840/-1/opinion Actually, more than a bit. A feud between the former vice president’s daughters emerged into public view when Liz Cheney, who is trying to win a Senate seat from Wyoming by pandering to the far-right Republican base, went on “Fox News Sunday” and declared her opposition to gay marriage.
She said the question should be left up to the states, but added, “I do believe in [...]]]> http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131118/NEWS/131119864/-1/opinion?rssfeed=true Mon, 18 Nov 2013 15:34:27 By Dana Milbank http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131118/NEWS/131119864/-1/opinion “We fumbled the rollout on this health care law,” he admitted at Thursday afternoon’s news conference. “I am very frustrated, but I’m also somebody who, if I fumbled the ball, you know, I’m going to wait until I get the next play and then I’m going to try to run as hard as I can and do right by the team. [...]]]> http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131114/NEWS/131119916/-1/opinion?rssfeed=true Thu, 14 Nov 2013 12:21:58 By E.J. Dionne http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131114/NEWS/131119916/-1/opinion The news about the health care law that is supposed to be his greatest achievement is almost uniformly downbeat. The public is unhappy with national politicians of all kinds. And then there are the polls, a currency that the political world -- despite ritualistic denials -- values more than any other.
On Tuesday, the Quinnipiac poll showed Obama with the lowest [...]]]> http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131113/NEWS/131119947/-1/opinion?rssfeed=true Wed, 13 Nov 2013 12:59:08 By Kathleen Parker http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131113/NEWS/131119947/-1/opinion The question is, can they handle prosperity? Do they even know what to do with it?
With the myriad problems besieging Obamacare, from the non-rollout to the minuscule number of enrollees in the health insurance exchanges, this is no time for gloating. Rather, it is time for Republicans to get very, [...]]]> http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131112/NEWS/131119970/-1/opinion?rssfeed=true Tue, 12 Nov 2013 12:34:16 By Eugene Robinson http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131112/NEWS/131119970/-1/opinion So why is everyone so depressed?
The sour public attitude toward elected officials in general -- and the Republican Party in [...]]]> http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131111/NEWS/131119992/-1/opinion?rssfeed=true Mon, 11 Nov 2013 15:47:41 By E.J. Dionne http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131111/NEWS/131119992/-1/opinion This would seem a safe assumption, which is why it ought to be astonishing that conservatives are positively obsessed with trashing the Affordable Care Act’s regulation requiring insurance [...]]]> http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131106/NEWS/131109919/-1/opinion?rssfeed=true Wed, 6 Nov 2013 11:36:24 By Kathleen Parker http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131106/NEWS/131109919/-1/opinion The other was a dictum so oft-repeated that it is permanently tattooed on my brain: “If you’ll lie by omission, you’ll lie by commission.”
This first rule sheds light on why it was so shocking when in 2009 Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., [...]]]> http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131104/NEWS/131109978/-1/opinion?rssfeed=true Mon, 4 Nov 2013 13:49:00 By Kathleen Parker http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131104/NEWS/131109978/-1/opinion Dear Ms. Know-It-All:
It appears that the witch Hillary Rodham Clinton is going to run for president. It makes my skin crawl to think of her and that husband of hers back in our White House, not to mention that they are Marxists like Obama and want to turn us into [...]]]> http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131103/NEWS/131109994/-1/opinion?rssfeed=true Sun, 3 Nov 2013 2:01:00 +0000 By George Will http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131103/NEWS/131109994/-1/opinion Carol Bond, an [...]]]> http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131030/NEWS/131039965/-1/opinion?rssfeed=true Wed, 30 Oct 2013 15:23:12 By Michelle Teheux http://www.wayneindependent.com/article/20131030/NEWS/131039965/-1/opinion In the past, we’ve had recessions and they’ve been followed by recoveries. We just had to grit our teeth and wait for times to get better.
Well, we’ve been [...]]]> 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, 3 Dec 2013 1:52:28 +0000