Commentary

Diverse, insightful and thought provoking—the SHNS Commentary Package is a collection of political analysis and social commentary from 15 leading columnists and editorial writers that span the political spectrum and bridge the opinion divide.

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Editorial: Obama lays out counterterrorism policies bc-edterrorism24(sh) | By: An editorial / Dale McFeatters | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | Editorials and Opinion (KE) May 24, 2013 3:00 PM President Barack Obama's first major speech of his second term on counterterrorism sounded good, like all his speeches, but in the end promised little real change. The president said Thursday that the U.S. war on terrorist groups, "like all wars, mus
Cyr: In Syria, poison-gas accusations raise stakes bc-cyr24-poison(sh) | By: ARTHUR I. CYR | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | Editorials and Opinion (KE) May 24, 2013 11:15 AM By ARTHUR I. CYR The brutal continuing civil war in Syria now includes allegations that the Assad regime has used poison gas. Gas employed in war presents an especially horrifying specter, which in turn risks raising the stakes for both sides. Since
Walters: Ignoring $10 billion debt won't make it go away bc-walters24-debt(sh) | By: DAN WALTERS | Source: Sacramento Bee | Editorials and Opinion (KE) May 24, 2013 8:20 AM By DAN WALTERS When Gov. Jerry Brown talks about reducing California's "wall of debt," he carefully limits it to about $30 billion in budget deficits, mostly money owed to schools and community colleges. One of the debts he omits is the $10 billio
Parker: E.W. Jackson enhances GOP's Virginia ticket bc-parker24(sh) | By: STAR PARKER | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | Editorials and Opinion (KE) May 24, 2013 8:10 AM Some 25 years ago, I changed my life. A visit inside a church opened my eyes to the destructive life I was living, financed by welfare checks generously provided by American taxpayers. I got off welfare, went to work, got politically active and becam
Watch: Are we awake yet? bc-watch23(sh) | By: ANN McFEATTERS | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | Editorials and Opinion (KE) May 23, 2013 5:55 PM By ANN McFEATTERS As the nation grapples with one costly natural disaster after another, Washington's politicians systematically have been cutting funds for disaster preparedness. Even as the nation laments the deaths of children in Oklahoma's torna
Editorial: Immigration bill a promising sign our system can work bc-edimmigration23(sh) | By: An editorial / Dale McFeatters | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | Editorials and Opinion (KE) May 23, 2013 4:55 PM An editorial / By Dale McFeatters "Miracle" is perhaps too strong a word, but it is a major marvel that in the current poisonous, take-no-prisoners atmosphere of Washington the Senate Judiciary Committee produced a complicated -- 800-plus pages --
Editorial: On Memorial Day, it's remembrance that counts bc-edmemorialday23(sh) | By: An editorial / Dale McFeatters | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | Editorials and Opinion (KE) May 23, 2013 4:05 PM An editorial / By Dale McFeatters Cutbacks in the military budget and the still-recovering economy mean this Memorial Day weekend will go down as a relatively subdued affair -- relative, that is, to our usual end-of-school, official-start-of-summe
Thomasson: Does Obama have Plausible Deniability? bc-thomasson23(sh) | By: DAN THOMASSON | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | Editorials and Opinion (KE), Special (LL) May 23, 2013 1:25 PM By DAN THOMASSON The name of the game is and always has been Plausible Deniability. The goal is to protect the big guy in the Oval Office from prior knowledge of politically damaging activity. You know that's true when "What did the president know
Murdock: Illegal aliens' jail release still poses threat bc-murdock23(sh) | By: DEROY MURDOCK | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | Editorials and Opinion (KE) May 23, 2013 1:05 PM By DEROY MURDOCK Just before the March 1 sequester, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) freed illegal-alien detainees from federal custody. These were just "low-level, noncriminal detainees," White House spokesman Jay Carney reassured the
RedBlueAmerica: Are White House scandals a Big Government scandal? bc-redblueamerica23(sh) | By: BEN BOYCHUK and JOEL MATHIS | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | Editorials and Opinion (KE), American League Baseball (BA), Special (LL) May 23, 2013 11:30 AM By BEN BOYCHUK and JOEL MATHIS Congress this week delved deeper into claims that the Internal Revenue Service improperly targeted conservative and religious nonprofit groups for extraordinary scrutiny in 2009 and 2010, and kept mum about the until
Dessert: The menace of the capital's flower thieves bc-dessert22(sh) | By: DALE MCFEATTERS | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | Editorials and Opinion (KE) May 22, 2013 5:15 PM By DALE MCFEATTERS Something comes over the residents of the nation's capital when the flowers bloom in the spring: The urge to steal them. My wife and I became aware of this seasonal problem when we first moved to Washington. The capital's anal ret
Editorial: In Iran's presidential race, reformers get cut bc-ediran22(sh) | By: Editorial / Dale McFeatters | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | Editorials and Opinion (KE) May 22, 2013 3:35 PM Editorial / By Dale McFeatters For Iran's June 14 presidential election, the Guardian Council has whittled the list of nearly 700 would-be candidates down to eight, most of them hard-liners loyal to the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The re
De la Isla: Flawed report on Hispanics takes GOP toll bc-delaisla22-react(sh) | By: JOSE de la ISLA | Source: Hispanic Link News Service | Editorials and Opinion (KE) May 22, 2013 2:25 PM By JOSE de la ISLA The Republican Party blowback from the Jason Richwine bomb is just beginning. Richwine, you may remember, resigned from the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation earlier this month following controversy over a report he'd
De la Isla: Flawed report on Hispanics takes GOP toll bc-delaisla22-react(sh) | By: JOSE de la ISLA | Source: Hispanic Link News Service | Editorials and Opinion (KE) May 22, 2013 1:50 PM By JOSE de la ISLA The Republican Party blowback from the Jason Richwine bomb is just beginning. Richwine, you may remember, resigned from the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation earlier this month following controversy over a report he'd
De la Isla: Flawed report on Hispanics takes GOP toll bc-delaisla22-react(sh) | By: JOSE de la ISLA | Source: Hispanic Link News Service | Editorials and Opinion (KE) May 22, 2013 1:45 PM By JOSE de la ISLA The Republican Party blowback from the Jason Richwine bomb is just beginning. Richwine, you may remember, resigned from the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation earlier this month following controversy over a report he'd
Editorial: Smoke from wildfires puts more Americans at risk bc-ed-wildfire22(sh) | By: An editorial / Dale McFeatters | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | Editorials and Opinion (KE), Special (LL) May 22, 2013 1:30 PM An editorial / By Dale McFeatters Wildfires in this country have generally been considered the price one risks for living in the rugged and scenic reaches of the Far West and Southwest. If the fires were health hazards, they were dismissed as local
Religion: Deeper into the church-state Inferno bc-religion-faith22(sh) | By: TERRY MATTINGLY | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | Religion (LR), Editorials and Opinion (KE) May 22, 2013 11:55 AM By TERRY MATTINGLY Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller was already having a rough day at the House Ways and Means Committee when one particularly hot question shoved him into the lower depths of a church-state Inferno. The question concerned a let
May: Of Benghazi, black swans and icebergs bc-may22-delusion(sh) | By: CLIFFORD D. MAY | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | Editorials and Opinion (KE) May 22, 2013 11:50 AM "Humans are great at self-delusion," the polymath philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb has observed. I'm confident he'd agree that the humans who populate the foreign policy community are no exception. Two years ago this month, Osama bin Laden was kille
Erbe: Let Pope Francis' disregard for wealth change church bc-erbe22-pope(sh) | By: BONNIE ERBE | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | Editorials and Opinion (KE) May 22, 2013 11:30 AM Just about everything about Pope Francis rings true. A mere two months into his papacy, he has shed many of the Roman Catholic Church's gaudy and inapt symbols of materialism and returned the philosophical focus to where Jesus Christ would have wante
Henry: Talking points? Raise your voice in protest bc-henry22-talk(sh) | By: REG HENRY | Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Editorials and Opinion (KE) May 22, 2013 11:00 AM By REG HENRY As these are anxious times, let me reassure readers that my column today is a talking point-free zone. Some space in modern life has to be available for people to sit down and read without being bothered by talk of talking points. Thi
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