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November 21, 2008
Three Up; Three Down
THIS WEEK’S OPINION MARKETPLACENovember 20, 2008
Silence gets no hearing
In the howling din of government bureaucracy churning at full hum, noise ordinances tend to resound as sensibility shrinks quietly into City Hall’s dusky corners.November 19, 2008
A cop reads crime’s signs
The library burns, and to the arsonist the poet turns: “Have you forgotten that your liberator is the book? The book is your wealth! It is knowledge.November 18, 2008
Plans for coal’s end have holes
Coal’s enemies, like Orcs bound for Gondor, are on the march.November 17, 2008
Move trails project now
If scientists – some of them – are to be believed, it took man 3.6 million years to advance from hirsute primate crawling about on hands and feet to walking sans the hands.Money U.
Rest assured, taxpayers and parents of college-bound kids, your tax dollars likely will not be required to bail out universities generally and their fat-cat CEOs specifically.November 15, 2008
Special group
In this space we seldom shrink from doling out criticism when we consider it due.November 14, 2008
Three Up; Three Down
THIS WEEK’S OPINION MARKETPLACENovember 13, 2008
Season is now for more pain
A slender Santa approaches, and Big Oil producers stand on notice: they’ve been profitable and therefore naughty, and now they must pay.Crisis should spark change
Red ink is trickling on the verge of spilling in gushers from municipal budgets as Gov. Timothy M. Kaine sharpens his scalpel for deeper incisions into a state spending plan starved for revenue.November 11, 2008
Kaine missed era’s passing
On the occasion of Barack Obama’s historic ascension to the presidency, fueled in small part (as it turned out) by the turn of Virginia’s political hue from red to blue, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine took occasion to hoist a banner of racism already tossed to the trash heap.November 10, 2008
Enough with the bailouts
Here they come, wrists lined by starched white cuffs replete with gleaming links.November 07, 2008
Three Up; Three Down
THIS WEEK’S OPINION MARKETPLACENovember 06, 2008
Help needed for warriors
The logo for the Wounded Warrior Project, a Jacksonville, Fla.-based initiative to heighten awareness about the plight of veterans, is a silhouette of soldiers, one carried on the shoulder of another. It appears on the project’s Web site beneath a slogan and an admonition: “The greatest casualty is being forgotten.” The danger of that is real as America’s attention shifts from war in Iraq, where victory is at hand, to the economy, where battles are being lost.November 05, 2008
Time for us all to return home
Americans awakened Wednesday – some still under euphoria’s sway, others in gloomy resignation – to the end of almost two years of running, culminating in a single burst of emotion and expression.EDITORIAL: Fate smiles on Obama
So ends a campaign that feels as though it began before the candidates were born, well, at least one of them.November 03, 2008
At last, polls that matter
An election is under way, which means initially and perhaps principally that Americans’ necks have been freed from the iron grip of the polls.November 01, 2008
An industry battles itself
Cries of bias long have rung in the ears of those who make their living in the business of news.October 30, 2008
Give legacy closer look
History, mobile and under revision, is scheduled today to roll into the River City.October 29, 2008
Change looses era of extremes
Support of abortion is the vow Democrats keep when forsaking all others. For the opposition party, the issue is a charm carried in a pocket, an assurance grasped when needed but otherwise forgotten.October 27, 2008
Not so fast on land bill
At a time when they will have been driven to delirium either by Barack Obama’s looming migration from the ordinary air on which he walks to the sublime air of Pennsylvania Avenue or by the wrenching horror of his defeat, Democrats apparently will gather with the other party a fortnight from election day for a special session and routine plundering in extraordinary times.October 26, 2008
Gilmore gets nod in Senate
Once the practice of statesmen, politics has evolved into an art of all things banal — schmoozing principal among them.October 25, 2008
McCain right despite flaws
Ears ache and heads throb over election clichés, which pulse as voting day finally draws near.October 24, 2008
Goodlatte gets nod in the 6th
Only a glance is needed to view the contrasts between Bob Goodlatte and Sam Rasoul.October 23, 2008
City should enter plans
From a vantage point somewhere near the top of the world, or at least that section of it where Afton Mountain touches the sky, Phil Dulaney can gaze in one direction across nine acres of cracked asphalt running beneath ramshackle structures, and in another across a lush valley stretching to the eye’s limits.October 22, 2008
Kaine stumps, budget suffers
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine would figure to be the more favorable of the two in a comparison to Nero, the Roman dictator. Del. William R. Janis is less sure, at least on one count.Break needed for taxpayers
As the Dow swings and the economy bends to the point of breaking, Augusta County property owners contemplate the next slap, notices of reassessment, which could send their tax bills soaring by a third or more.October 20, 2008
Will socialism get free pass?
Henry David Thoreau, whom leftists embrace, disdained what leftists cherish, government, a primary mean of which in a fortnight leftists expect to acquire control absolutely. “Governments show ... how successfully men can be imposed upon, even impose upon themselves, for their own advantage,” Thoreau wrote in “Civil Disobedience.” “... Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of the way.” Government is in the way of everything else, and is about to plunge further, and so the imposition, at the people’s behest, stands ready to deepen.October 18, 2008
Fire station, cuts needed
Gentle ripples of acrimony returned to the Waynesboro City Council over a subject previously divisive.October 17, 2008
