http://www.clintonherald.com/picayuneitem en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:19:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/picayuneitem/opinion/local_story_278102047.html http://www.clintonherald.com/picayuneitem/opinion/local_story_278102047.html When I was a kid, there was a bully in our neighborhood. He never picked on kids his own size and certainly not on anyone larger. Rather, he punched, pushed and kicked kids smaller and weaker than himself, especially those who refused to respond to his threats. Stirred by his adversaries’ impotent responses, the bully felt free to slug anyone he fancied. Most kids tried to avoid him, thinking their demonstration of... Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:05:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/picayuneitem/opinion/local_story_273120649.html http://www.clintonherald.com/picayuneitem/opinion/local_story_273120649.html Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem. Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:53:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/picayuneitem/opinion/local_story_267115504.html http://www.clintonherald.com/picayuneitem/opinion/local_story_267115504.html When the old City Council bought the Arizona Chemical property following Hurricane Katrina at a fire sale price, it had been for sale for a couple of years with no takers. Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:47:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/picayuneitem/opinion/local_story_267114758.html http://www.clintonherald.com/picayuneitem/opinion/local_story_267114758.html When Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, some suggested that race played a factor in his success. People “wanted” to elect a black man president because of our history of slavery and the denial of civil rights for so many years to African-Americans. It is never “racism” to vote for someone because he is black. It is only racism to oppose the policies of a black Democrat. Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:21:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/picayuneitem/opinion/local_story_264122207.html http://www.clintonherald.com/picayuneitem/opinion/local_story_264122207.html AMMAN, Jordan — “We live in a quiet house in a noisy neighborhood.” Our tour guide’s assessment aptly sums up the difference between his native Jordan and other countries in the Middle East, a difference created almost 15 years ago when Jordan signed the historic peace treaty with Israel. If Jordan’s neighbor to the north, Syria, ever hopes to benefit from a reduced-noise level, it will have to make peace as well, and the Obama administration needs to play a key role in that effort. Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:35:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/picayuneitem/opinion/local_story_261143710.html http://www.clintonherald.com/picayuneitem/opinion/local_story_261143710.html There is simply no justification for the supervisors decision to so severely cut the funding of the Pearl River County Library system. Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:51:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/picayuneitem/opinion/local_story_243105210.html http://www.clintonherald.com/picayuneitem/opinion/local_story_243105210.html Seven months after taking office amidst a religious-like faith that he was the one (or even The One) we had been waiting for, President Barack Obama is beginning to resemble a shooting star. Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:20:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/picayuneitem/opinion/local_story_236122113.html http://www.clintonherald.com/picayuneitem/opinion/local_story_236122113.html The serious, and sometimes chilling, provisions of the medical care legislation that President Obama has been trying to rush through Congress are important enough for all of us to stop and think, even though his political strategy from the outset has been to prevent us from having time to stop and think about it. Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:42:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/picayuneitem/opinion/local_story_212094353.html http://www.clintonherald.com/picayuneitem/opinion/local_story_212094353.html “I hate to admit it, but I have reached a stage in my life that if I am walking down a dark street late at night and I see that the person behind me is white, I subconsciously feel relieved.” — Reverend Jesse Jackson Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:53:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/picayuneitem/opinion/local_story_210155427.html http://www.clintonherald.com/picayuneitem/opinion/local_story_210155427.html When Sonia Sotomayor was a law student, she told a professor that her career goal was to be a federal judge. But more than a decade later, when she was urged to apply for an opening on the district court in New York, her mentor and law partner at the time, David Botwinik, could not get her to complete the necessary paperwork. Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:25:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/picayuneitem/opinion/local_story_204092617.html http://www.clintonherald.com/picayuneitem/opinion/local_story_204092617.html Is there a coherent argument for government-controlled medical care or are slogans and hysteria considered sufficient? Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:09:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/picayuneitem/opinion/local_story_155101035.html http://www.clintonherald.com/picayuneitem/opinion/local_story_155101035.html In Washington, the clearer a statement is, the more certain it is to be followed by a “clarification” when people realize what was said. The clearly racist comments made by Judge Sonia Sotomayor on the Berkeley campus in 2001 have forced the spinmasters to resort to their last-ditch excuse, that it was “taken out of context.” Thu, 28 May 2009 10:15:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/picayuneitem/opinion/local_story_148101600.html http://www.clintonherald.com/picayuneitem/opinion/local_story_148101600.html It is one of the signs of our times that so many in the media are focusing on the life story of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court of the United States. Tue, 26 May 2009 10:12:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/picayuneitem/opinion/local_story_146101614.html http://www.clintonherald.com/picayuneitem/opinion/local_story_146101614.html If President Barack Obama really is a pragmatic problem-solver and not a liberal ideologue, he will stop pushing for a government-run insurance plan as part of health care reform. Thu, 21 May 2009 15:20:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/picayuneitem/opinion/local_story_141152200.html http://www.clintonherald.com/picayuneitem/opinion/local_story_141152200.html All the most interesting issues are moral in character, having to do with how we behave and why. The most interesting story of the past week — with due respect to Nancy Pelosi and other outliers — had to do with abortion, a moral issue of very supreme relevance, no matter of the depth or nature of one’s views on the matter. There was first of all a Gallup Poll. Then there was a presidential visit to Notre Dame University.