http://www.pratttribune.com/section/columns pratttribune.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 4:09:15 +0000 http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130619/NEWS/130619175/1008/OPINION?rssfeed=true Wed, 19 Jun 2013 1:01:00 +0000 By Dana Milbank, Washington Post http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130619/NEWS/130619175/1008/OPINION President Obama, who as a Democratic senator accused the Bush administration of violating civil liberties in the name of security, now vigorously defends his own administration’s collection of Americans’ phone records and Internet activities.
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said he thinks Congress has done sufficient intelligence oversight. His evidence? Opinion polls.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi defended the programs’ legality and said [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130618/OPINION/130619244/1008/OPINION?rssfeed=true Tue, 18 Jun 2013 6:34:00 Kent Bush http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130618/OPINION/130619244/1008/OPINION http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130617/NEWS/130619705/1008/OPINION?rssfeed=true Mon, 17 Jun 2013 1:14:00 +0000 By Kathleen Parker, Washington Post http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130617/NEWS/130619705/1008/OPINION Most of us donned our Mao suits, bow ties and sensible shoes and did our best to blend in. The workplace didn’t become more feminine; women became more masculine.
Then along came “Sex and the City.” The new working girl was glam, femmed-out to the max in sheer tops, short skirts and stilettos. She was brash, tough (neurotic), and above all sexy. Where the [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130616/NEWS/130619706/1008/OPINION?rssfeed=true Sun, 16 Jun 2013 1:10:00 +0000 By Eugene Robinson, Washington Post http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130616/NEWS/130619706/1008/OPINION Snowden is the 29-year-old intelligence analyst and computer geek who has been leaking some of the National Security Agency’s most precious secrets to journalists from The Washington Post and the Guardian. He is now on the lam, having checked out of the Hong Kong hotel where he [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130615/NEWS/130619707/1008/OPINION?rssfeed=true Sat, 15 Jun 2013 1:07:00 +0000 By E.J. Dionne, Washington Post http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130615/NEWS/130619707/1008/OPINION Michael Lind, the independent-minded scholar, posed one such question last week about libertarianism that I hope will shake up the political world. I’ll get to his query in a moment. It’s important because many in the new generation of conservative politicians declare libertarianism as their core political philosophy.
Libertarians have the virtue, in [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130614/OPINION/130619468/1008/OPINION?rssfeed=true Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:00:00 +0000 Kent Bush http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130614/OPINION/130619468/1008/OPINION http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130614/NEWS/130619708/1008/OPINION?rssfeed=true Fri, 14 Jun 2013 1:03:00 +0000 By Esther Cepeda, Washington Post http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130614/NEWS/130619708/1008/OPINION But I’m with him on this one.
Truth be told, reading “Joyland” will be a minor inconvenience -- if one can reasonably say such a thing about acquiring and consuming a bound, paper tome filled with the master storyteller’s hanging-on-the-edge-of-your-seat words. My choices will be to either [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130613/NEWS/130619711/1008/OPINION?rssfeed=true Thu, 13 Jun 2013 1:01:00 +0000 By Dana Milbank, Washington Post http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130613/NEWS/130619711/1008/OPINION “For me, it is literally -- not figuratively, literally -- gut-wrenching to see this happen,” James Clapper told NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell over the weekend, referring to leaks about the government’s secret program to collect vast troves of phone and Internet data.
There might be a bit more sympathy for Clapper’s digestive difficulty if he hadn’t delivered a kick in the gut to the American public just [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130612/NEWS/130619840/1008/OPINION?rssfeed=true Wed, 12 Jun 2013 1:01:00 +0000 By George Will, Washington Post http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130612/NEWS/130619840/1008/OPINION These immortal measures just received the Senate’s benediction because they illustrate the only law Washington can be counted on to [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130611/OPINION/130619883/1008/OPINION?rssfeed=true Tue, 11 Jun 2013 8:00:45 Kent Bush http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130611/OPINION/130619883/1008/OPINION http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130611/NEWS/130619930/1008/OPINION?rssfeed=true Tue, 11 Jun 2013 1:01:00 +0000 By Michael Gerson, Washington Post http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130611/NEWS/130619930/1008/OPINION At some point, the word “worst” -- already a superlative -- ceases to be sufficient. Syria’s downward [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130610/NEWS/130619999/1008/OPINION?rssfeed=true Mon, 10 Jun 2013 1:00:00 +0000 By Eugene Robinson, Washington Post http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130610/NEWS/130619999/1008/OPINION I have to throw in all those qualifiers because Manning’s prosecution has been largely a secret process. Portions of his court-martial, which opened Monday at Fort Meade, Md., will be secret as well -- [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130609/NEWS/130609801/1008/OPINION?rssfeed=true Sun, 9 Jun 2013 1:00:00 +0000 By Kathleen Parker, Washington Post http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130609/NEWS/130609801/1008/OPINION Maureen Dowd attempted to answer this question with her 2005 book, “Are Men Necessary?” I responded three years later with “Save the Males.”
With each generation, the question becomes more declarative and querulous. Recent demographic shifts show women gaining supremacy across a spectrum of quantitative measures, including education and [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130608/NEWS/130609802/1008/OPINION?rssfeed=true Sat, 8 Jun 2013 1:00:00 +0000 By Dana Milbank, Washington Post http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130608/NEWS/130609802/1008/OPINION Asked by Fox’s Bill Hemmer what he hoped to learn at Monday afternoon’s hearing, Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers, R-Ky., offered this bit of pre-hearing analysis:
“Of course, the enemies list out of the White House that IRS [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130607/OPINION/130609437/1008/OPINION?rssfeed=true Fri, 7 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Kent Bush http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130607/OPINION/130609437/1008/OPINION http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130607/NEWS/130609803/1008/OPINION?rssfeed=true Fri, 7 Jun 2013 1:00:00 +0000 By George Will, Washington Post http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130607/NEWS/130609803/1008/OPINION Seven-term Democrat Pat Leahy’s 38 Senate [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130606/NEWS/130609804/1008/OPINION?rssfeed=true Thu, 6 Jun 2013 1:00:00 +0000 By Esther Cepeda, Washington Post http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130606/NEWS/130609804/1008/OPINION As reported in The Wall Street Journal, Romney is planning on re-emerging in ways that will “help shape national priorities,” such as assisting the Republican Party as it tries to regain its footing with the non-white voters who ignored the GOP standard-bearer at the polls in 2012.
Yes, the man known for favoring the term “self-deportation” and offending scores of Hispanics by using the word “illegals” over and over again during prime-time [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130605/NEWS/130609810/1008/OPINION?rssfeed=true Wed, 5 Jun 2013 1:01:00 +0000 By E.J. Dionne, Washington Post http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130605/NEWS/130609810/1008/OPINION Understanding Greeley, the priest, sociologist and novelist who died last week at 85, is essential to understanding the last half-century of American Catholic history and the glorious contradictions of politics.
He was a liberal whose impatience with actual [...]]]> http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130604/OPINION/130609869/1008/OPINION?rssfeed=true Tue, 4 Jun 2013 7:06:55 Kent Bush http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130604/OPINION/130609869/1008/OPINION http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130603/NEWS/130609997/1008/OPINION?rssfeed=true Mon, 3 Jun 2013 1:00:00 +0000 By Kathleen Parker, Washington Post http://www.pratttribune.com/article/20130603/NEWS/130609997/1008/OPINION Wait.
Weren’t we just talking about the IRS targeting conservative groups and the Justice Department secretly seizing reporters’ phone records? Weren’t we just talking about how no effort was made to rescue our people in Benghazi? The official line is that we couldn’t have gotten there in time but, as numerous military readers have pointed out to me, no one knew how long [...]]]>