http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/section/OPINION mcphersonsentinel.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 3:13:34 +0000 http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130619/NEWS/130619175/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Wed, 19 Jun 2013 1:01:00 +0000 By Dana Milbank, Washington Post http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130619/NEWS/130619175/1007/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.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130618/OPINION/130619167/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:22:22 http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130618/OPINION/130619167/1007/OPINION http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130618/OPINION/130619168/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:18:32 http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130618/OPINION/130619168/1007/OPINION http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130618/OPINION/130619244/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Tue, 18 Jun 2013 6:34:00 Kent Bush http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130618/OPINION/130619244/1007/OPINION http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130617/OPINION/130619301/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:46:37 http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130617/OPINION/130619301/1007/OPINION http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130617/OPINION/130619302/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:44:54 http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130617/OPINION/130619302/1007/OPINION Thumbs up

Relay for Life raises nearly $70,000
Thumbs up to all those who helped make this year’s McPherson Relay for Life such a huge success last weekend.
Due to your support, the American Cancer Society will receive nearly $70,000 towards cancer research, both locally and nationally.
The [...]]]> http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130617/NEWS/130619705/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Mon, 17 Jun 2013 1:14:00 +0000 By Kathleen Parker, Washington Post http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130617/NEWS/130619705/1007/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.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130616/NEWS/130619706/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Sun, 16 Jun 2013 1:10:00 +0000 By Eugene Robinson, Washington Post http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130616/NEWS/130619706/1007/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.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130615/NEWS/130619707/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Sat, 15 Jun 2013 1:07:00 +0000 By E.J. Dionne, Washington Post http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130615/NEWS/130619707/1007/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.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130614/OPINION/130619468/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:00:00 +0000 Kent Bush http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130614/OPINION/130619468/1007/OPINION http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130614/OPINION/130619457/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:14:47 http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130614/OPINION/130619457/1007/OPINION http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130614/OPINION/130619458/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:12:45 http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130614/OPINION/130619458/1007/OPINION http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130614/OPINION/130619460/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:10:31 http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130614/OPINION/130619460/1007/OPINION http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130614/NEWS/130619708/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Fri, 14 Jun 2013 1:03:00 +0000 By Esther Cepeda, Washington Post http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130614/NEWS/130619708/1007/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.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130613/OPINION/130619592/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Thu, 13 Jun 2013 9:57:37 http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130613/OPINION/130619592/1007/OPINION http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130613/OPINION/130619593/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Thu, 13 Jun 2013 9:55:45 http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130613/OPINION/130619593/1007/OPINION http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130613/NEWS/130619711/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Thu, 13 Jun 2013 1:01:00 +0000 By Dana Milbank, Washington Post http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130613/NEWS/130619711/1007/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.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130612/OPINION/130619723/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:04:43 Donald Johnson Guest Columnist http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130612/OPINION/130619723/1007/OPINION http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130612/OPINION/130619724/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:01:36 http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130612/OPINION/130619724/1007/OPINION http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130612/OPINION/130619725/1007/OPINION?rssfeed=true Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:00:09 http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130612/OPINION/130619725/1007/OPINION