Yahoo! News: OpinionOpinionNo Straight Talk From John McCain (The Nation)- June 24, 2008 The Nation - The Nation -- Give McCain campaign advisor Charlie Black credit.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20080624/cm_t... Washington Post Watch (The Nation)- June 24, 2008 The Nation - The Nation -- Two days in a row!http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20080624/cm_t... Uncorking Energy Supplies (The Weekly Standard)- June 24, 2008 The Weekly Standard - Bob Corker's introduction to the nation and to politicians in Washington was not auspicious.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/weeklystandard/20080624... Does money make you happy (The Christian Science Monitor)- June 24, 2008 The Christian Science Monitor - You've heard it a thousand times: Money doesn't buy happiness. Yet in spite of this axiom, people throughout history have tried mightily to accumulate riches. Are we suffering from some sort of collective delusion, or is it possible that money truly does buy happinesshttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20080624/cm_csm/ybr... Biofuels put bucks over ducks (The Christian Science Monitor)- June 24, 2008 The Christian Science Monitor - The massive crop loss from Midwest floods has again laid bare the political power of the corn-ethanol lobby. The US Agriculture Department may soon help keep ethanol plants running by letting farmers plow up land set aside for wildlife.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20080624/cm_csm/efa... Our view on clean campaigns: All Washington lobbyists, insiders aren't created equal (USATODAY.com)- June 24, 2008 USATODAY.com - John McCain and Barack Obama are battling over many issues, from energy to trade to terrorism. But nowhere has their sparring been more intense than over which candidate is more reform-minded.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20080624/cm_us... Opposing view: First, purge all the lobbyists (USATODAY.com)- June 24, 2008 USATODAY.com - Information. Access. Money. In the nation's capital, it's the currency of movers and shakers. If you have one, you can barter for the other two. And if you have all three, well, chances are, you're a top lobbyist.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20080624/cm_us... Hippy-dippy humorist (USATODAY.com)- June 24, 2008 USATODAY.com - George Carlin began his comedy career in the late 1950s. And he ended it with a show in Las Vegas just a week before his death Sunday of heart failure at age 71.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20080624/cm_us... The Politics of Identity Politics (HuffingtonPost.com)- June 23, 2008 HuffingtonPost.com - Last weekend's Washington PostABC poll of white and Black voters racial attitudes revealed, well, not much at all.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20080623/cm_hu... Obama's Pooh-bah (The Weekly Standard)- June 23, 2008 The Weekly Standard - "Winnie-the-Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security."--former Navy Secretary Richard Danzig, one of Barack Obama's key foreign policy advisers, June 11http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oped/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/weeklystandard/20080623... |