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FindNews: Personal > Opinions - 5/13/2008 1:23:02 AM To the
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FindNews: Personal > Opinions - 5/13/2008 12:22:00 AM USATODAY.com - To put himself through Virginias Radford University, Chris House works 35 hours a week at a local Pizza Hut. During summers, he takes a second job as a farm hand.
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FindNews: Personal > Opinions - 5/13/2008 12:21:00 AM USATODAY.com - There is no argument in Washington that the Montgomery GI Bill has not kept pace with rising college costs — it provides for less than 70% of public tuitions and 30% of private
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FindNews: Personal > Opinions - 5/13/2008 12:17:00 AM USATODAY.com - In West Virginia, where Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama waged a quiet skirmish in their War Without End, the noisy ghosts of a political battle 48 years ago echoed through the
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FindNews: Personal > Opinions - 5/13/2008 12:16:56 AM School design doesn’t need to be numbingly institutional — it can be inspiring and, yes,
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FindNews: Personal > Opinions - 5/12/2008 9:53:12 PM HuffingtonPost.com - Instead of a pie in the face, which Thomas L. Friedman ducked at Brown University a couple of weeks ago, the student pranksters should have tossed a few tough questions to the
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FindNews: Personal > Opinions - 5/12/2008 8:59:26 PM In 2008, the defense of the state of Israel requires a kind of courage and determination very much out of accord with the perpetual click-clack of our politics, and with the irresponsibility and
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FindNews: Personal > Opinions - 5/12/2008 8:59:26 PM Obama will never be at his best around Hillary; she drains him of his magical powers. Shes Jane Jinx to him. Its a similar syndrome to the one Katharine Hepburns star athlete and her
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FindNews: Personal > Opinions - 5/12/2008 8:59:25 PM Ironically, Obama got to where he is by not being the black candidate. It is Clinton who is now the race candidate, diminishing black voters and eggheads, her final hopes resting on the
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FindNews: Personal > Opinions - 5/12/2008 8:59:25 PM After the years of partisanship, its a change to see a presidential candidate warmly embraced by the establishment. But if Obama wins, the next step is calculating how much distance it takes to
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FindNews: Personal > Opinions - 5/12/2008 8:59:24 PM No one knows if Obama can win. But to deliberately convey the idea most white people -- or most working-class whites -- are unwilling to give an African-American candidate a fair hearing in a
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FindNews: Personal > Opinions - 5/12/2008 8:59:24 PM There is little evidence to suggest that there are enough racists of any class in America, let alone in swing states, to determine the results come fall.
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FindNews: Personal > Opinions - 5/12/2008 8:59:23 PM Stacey Jones, guest columnist: The spotlight on food can remind us to take a close look at our local food system.
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FindNews: Personal > Opinions - 5/12/2008 8:59:23 PM Grace-Marie Turner, guest columnist: Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are gearing up for a general election battle -- barring a surprise surge by Sen. Hillary Clinton -- in which they will offer
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FindNews: Personal > Opinions - 5/12/2008 8:59:22 PM A time limit on the length of the campaign with a set of well regulated regional primaries ending at a specific time would go a long way to cutting costs and cleaning up, for the Democrats at least,
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FindNews: Personal > Opinions - 5/12/2008 8:59:22 PM Jim Young, guest columnist: It is said that good things come to those who wait. Well, maybe. A case can instead be made that most often good things come to those who stubbornly refuse to wait. To
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FindNews: Personal > Opinions - 5/12/2008 8:59:21 PM P-I Editorial: Its risky for government to act on the credit crisis. Then again, the prospect of a real deflationary cycle is best avoided. Exactly the reason Congress should move forward with
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FindNews: Personal > Opinions - 5/12/2008 8:59:21 PM Are speculators mainly, or even largely, responsible for high oil prices? And if they arent, why have so many commentators insisted, year after year, that theres an oil bubble?
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FindNews: Personal > Opinions - 5/12/2008 8:59:20 PM P-I Editorial: The magnitude 7.8 earthquake that has devastated Sichuan and surrounding provinces was followed by an almost immediate all-hands-on-deck call by the Chinese government and an
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FindNews: Personal > Opinions - 5/12/2008 8:59:20 PM P-I Editorial: Tougher court orders, more support for battered women and mandatory, long-term mental health treatment for their violent partners might yield better results to slow domestic violence.
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