http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/section/OPINION jacksonnewspapers.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. Sat, 18 May 2013 16:14:41 +0000 http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130426/OPINION/130429930/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Tue, 7 May 2013 11:37:08 http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130426/OPINION/130429930/1007/OPINION http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130426/OPINION/130429929/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Thu, 2 May 2013 13:05:31 http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130426/OPINION/130429929/1007/OPINION http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130326/NEWS/130329922/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:39:31 http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130326/NEWS/130329922/1007/OPINION Indeed, it’s darn hard to champion states’ rights as defined by the 10th Amendment, a favorite of many conservatives, while simultaneously defending the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the federal law passed in 1996 — also [...]]]> http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130218/NEWS/130219910/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:42:03 +0000 By Jeff Vrabel, GHNS http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130218/NEWS/130219910/1007/OPINION http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130218/NEWS/130219911/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:40:23 +0000 By Saelen Ghose, GHNS http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130218/NEWS/130219911/1007/OPINION http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130204/NEWS/130209970/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Mon, 4 Feb 2013 17:25:49 http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130204/NEWS/130209970/1007/OPINION A bipartisan group of U.S. senators, including Republicans John McCain of Arizona and tea party favorite Marco Rubio of Florida, beat President Obama to the punch last week in introducing a legislative package that would grant effective amnesty to the 11 million or so undocumented immigrants in this country, so long as they register with Uncle Sam, clear [...]]]> http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130201/NEWS/130209990/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Fri, 1 Feb 2013 15:37:06 By Diana Boggia, GHNS http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130201/NEWS/130209990/1007/OPINION I just received a phone call that my ex-husband’s mother died. My two daughters loved her and I know they will be upset, so I want to find the right words to help them through this. I also need to prepare them for their first funeral with someone they loved, and prepare them for the process of it all. They were traumatized at a previous funeral of a family member they didn’t even know, so I hate to think of what this might do to them.
The school counselor and I told the girls [...]]]> http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130129/NEWS/130129874/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:56:14 +0000 http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130129/NEWS/130129874/1007/OPINION Baseball Hall of Famer Stan Musial was put to rest last weekend, gone at age 92. Though many may have forgotten him, the greatest St. Louis Cardinal ever remains among the first few names in many a statistical category. It wasn’t just the [...]]]> http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130124/NEWS/130129924/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:08:14 +0000 http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130124/NEWS/130129924/1007/OPINION http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130124/NEWS/130129925/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:06:11 +0000 http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130124/NEWS/130129925/1007/OPINION It buys time for House Republicans to try to reclaim the momentum lost from President Barack Obama’s re-election and inauguration and come up with a more winning strategy to coax some desperately needed spending discipline out of Democrats. [...]]]> http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130123/NEWS/130129957/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:36:48 By Tracy Beckerman, GHNS http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130123/NEWS/130129957/1007/OPINION It was a perfectly reasonable question. It was a Saturday afternoon. We had no plans. But having been married to this guy for 20 years, I knew this question wasn’t as innocent as it seemed. There was a hidden meaning. It was actually code for, “Do you want to see that new action movie with lots of special effects, a huge body count and bad guys with fake foreign accents?”
“What did you have in mind?” I asked innocently.
“The new [...]]]> http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130122/NEWS/130129977/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:28:02 +0000 By Jared Olar, GHNS http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130122/NEWS/130129977/1007/OPINION We’ve seen those principles at work time and again — in the fabricated news that the Russian Communists published in Pravda, in the Soviet Potemkin villages, in the old claims of apartheid propagandists that South Africa was all but uninhabited prior to the arrival of European [...]]]> http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130122/NEWS/130129978/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:21:03 By Amy Gehrt, GHNS http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130122/NEWS/130129978/1007/OPINION Once the ceremonial swearing-in was complete, Obama faced the nation to lay out an ambitious agenda that surprised many with its substance and subject matter. A host of issues were discussed — the economy, climate change, gay rights and immigration reform, among others — but if there was one overarching theme I took away [...]]]>