Opinion and Editorial

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Democracy is hard

Opinion: By John B. QUIGLEY McClatchy-Tribune COLUMBUS, Ohio Democracy is easier to espouse than to


A lot of winners have become losers in not-so-Happy Valley

Editorial: The report released by former FBI director Louis Freeh on Thursday excoriated top-ranking Penn State


A Medicaid dilemma

Opinion: The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.: Is it an unintended consequence of health care reform or much


Obama’s tax plan based on lie

Opinion: Anyone who wants to study the tricks of propaganda rhetoric has a rich source of examples in the


Small businesses are not the solution

Opinion: By John H. BUNZEL Los Angeles Times In an American Express ad promoting Small Business Saturday,


Showing we care

Opinion: By Sarita Gupta McClatchy-Tribune One hundred years ago, Congress passed a law mandating an


Top court steps on Montana

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords As a Montana newspaper editorial succinctly put it: “The greatest


Chief justice is not neutral

Opinion: Chief Justice John Roberts is brilliant and quotable. That doesn’t necessarily make him right.


Top-to-bottom evaluation of Covelli Centre is timely

Editorial: Whatever decision Youngstown Mayor Charles Sammarone’s ultimately arrives at with regard to the


More bad news for president

Opinion: President Obama’s attempt to spin the latest discouraging unemployment numbers as “a step in the


Fines hurt, but there may be stronger medicine for abuse

Editorial: There’s no question that $3 bil- lion is a lot of money for a drug company to pay in fines and


Exalted institutions violate moral code

Opinion: By Donald Kaul OtherWords In one of those strange coincidences that make life read like a cheap


A major triumph

Opinion: By Paul Tipton Los Angeles Times The announcement last week of the first definitive evidence of


Seance over the Constitution

Opinion: The Framers created a Federal Government of limited powers, and assigned to this Court the duty of


Let’s hear more specifics

Opinion: Let’s hear more specifics Toledo Blade: President Obama’s campaign swing through northwest Ohio