Opinion http://www.dnronline.com/rss_opinion.php en-us Mon, 08 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 A Big Masquerade. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45120&CHID=36 Mon, 08 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Amazing Timing. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45119&CHID=36 Tue, 09 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 John Paul II http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45194&CHID=36 Tue, 09 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 In assessing Gov. McDonnell’s first two months in office, a common lament has been that the state’s new Republican chief executive has not exercised visible leadership, that he has not stepped, chest out, to the front of the parade and strutted his stuff. This newspaper was among http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45195&CHID=36 Wed, 10 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Harvey, Auerbach. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45226&CHID=36 Wed, 10 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 No Expansion Necessary. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45227&CHID=36 Sat, 06 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 For those who feared that Barack Obama did not have any Lyndon Johnson in him, the president’s determination to press ahead and get health care reform done in the face of Republican intransigence came as something of a relief. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45140&CHID=59 Sat, 06 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Why Be Disillusioned' http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45128&CHID=59 Sat, 06 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 WASHINGTON So the yearlong production, set to close after Massachusetts’ devastatingly negative Jan. 19 review, saw the curtain raised one last time. Obamacare lives.After 34 speeches, three sharp electoral rebukes (Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts) and a seven-hour seminar, the president anno http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45141&CHID=59 Sat, 06 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Truly Intolerable Government. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45129&CHID=59 Mon, 08 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 The White House took great offense this week when conservatives suggested President Obama might be trading a judicial appointment for a wavering Democrat’s vote on his health care reform plan. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45203&CHID=59 Tue, 09 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 In a city where the phrase “bipartisan initiative” is becoming an oxymoron, the urgency of containing the damage the Supreme Court could do to our electoral system creates an opportunity for a rare convergence of interest and principle. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45236&CHID=59 Sun, 07 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Your recent editorial on global warming is cut and paste garbage and distortions from special, powerful interests. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45173&CHID=32 Wed, 10 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 BY MIKE SMITH ON JAN. 27, county staff gave the Rockingham County Board of Supervisors a draft of a new zoning ordinance, which, if approved, would give a special use permit to two wind comp http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45273&CHID=32 Mon, 08 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 I do believe that Omar Hoschtetler may have been taken in by the following “advertisement” from a 985 A.D. edition of Icelandic Viking Today. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=44818&CHID=62 Mon, 08 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 No legislation for the good of the people has ever been passed without opposition. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45197&CHID=62 Mon, 08 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 H. Bishop Dansby takes Eugene Buie to task for believing in the Bible and God, and says those who so believe are “intolerant”. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45198&CHID=62 Mon, 08 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 My prediction is, once Tiger rejoins the PGA tour and begins to win again, people will forget about what he did and focus on his golfing. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45199&CHID=62 Mon, 08 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Tiger Woods’ confession reminds me of Michael Vick’s revival. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45200&CHID=62 Mon, 08 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 I would like to see more coverage of the study on hunger in the central Shenandoah Valley. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45202&CHID=62 Tue, 09 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 How many of us would like to fire each and every official in Washington, D.C., and start new' http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45234&CHID=62 Tue, 09 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 The significance of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission has been grossly exaggerated. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=44467&CHID=62 Tue, 09 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 I read about the appearance of Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi with great dismay. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45235&CHID=62 Tue, 09 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 A recent editorial suggests that President Obama’s effort to reform health care is just another case of unnecessary welfare that will reward people not willing to put forth the necessary effort to earn good insurance. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=44958&CHID=62 Wed, 10 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 The natural gas extraction proposed in the Bergton area is a project with many possible liabilities, and minimal gain. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=44825&CHID=62 Wed, 10 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 I’m delighted to hear that the Harrisonburg City Council voted to endorse the DREAM Act, a federal bipartisan proposal that will give undocumented youth an opportunity to pursue higher education in the United States. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=44870&CHID=62 Wed, 10 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 About a month ago in my ecology class, the subject of a report on the dairy industry came up. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45271&CHID=62 Wed, 10 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 When I was 8 or 9 years old, I threw snowballs at passing cars. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45272&CHID=62 Mon, 08 Mar 10 00:00:00 -0600 Write the caption that will make this cartoon a winner http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=45201&CHID=60