Viewpoints

David Brooks: Shift in independents' opinions is rocking the Democrats' boat

By David Brooks - Published: 12:00 am

Liberals and conservatives each have their own intellectual food chains. They have their own think tanks to provide arguments, politicians and pundits to amplify them, and news media outlets to deliver streams of prejudice-affirming stories.

David Brooks: Shift in independents' opinions is rocking the Democrats' boat

By David Brooks - Published: 12:00 am

Paul Krugman: Support for Obama leaks through cracks in economic policy

By Paul Krugman - Published: 12:00 am

Remember those Republican boasts that they would turn health care into President Barack Obama's Waterloo? Well, exit polls suggest that to the extent that health care was an issue in Tuesday's elections, it worked in Democrats' favor. But while health care won't be Obama's Waterloo, economic policy is starting to look like his Anzio.

Viewpoints: Vote on park fee proves citizens care

Published: Friday, November 6 2009 - 12:00 am

For those of us in the parks business, these have been pretty grim times. Budget cuts often fall hardest upon parks and recreation programs, both at the state and local levels.

Viewpoints: GOP moderates face revolt from their own radical right

Published: Friday, November 6 2009 - 12:00 am

Democrats have some thinking to do after Tuesday's elections, but Republicans don't have time to think. They're too busy trying to survive the party's internal purge and avoid being shipped off to political Siberia.

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National Opinions

Seahawks still in high-stakes competition

By JERRY BREWER - Updated: 5:13 pm

For the slumping, snakebitten Seahawks, the only thing scarcer than victories is sympathy.

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Rangers' continued postseason drought eats at veteran Michael Young

By EVAN GRANT - Updated: 4:46 pm

Even if he had been so inclined, Michael Young simply couldn't make himself watch the New York Yankees celebrate world championship No. 27 on Wednesday night.

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Selfishness is no longer a problem for these Dallas Cowboys

By JEAN-JACQUES TAYLOR - Updated: 4:46 pm

Despite what you might have heard elsewhere, there's a positive vibe in the Cowboys' locker room these days.

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Jason Taylor feeling at home with Dolphins again

By DAVE HYDE - Updated: 4:56 pm

The strange part, the fun part, the part he never expected to say is how it feels sometimes like he never left. Let's start there. Jason Taylor works 15 minutes from home again. He attends his kids' ballgames again. He has in-season dates with his wife again.

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Eagles' McNabb has a message

By ASHLEY FOX - Published: 3:26 pm

Every word that comes out of Donovan McNabb's mouth for public consumption is deliberate. Everything he says has meaning, a purpose, and an intended audience.

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Eagles' chances in NFC East begin with the Cowboys

By PHIL SHERIDAN - Updated: 3:26 pm

One week after the big two-part grudge match against New York - and just days after the Phillies' dismissal from the World Series - the Eagles face the NFL equivalent of those Damned Yankees.

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Phillies still have Cole Hamels in mind for the future

By BOB FORD - Updated: 3:26 pm

If the Phillies are going to get back to the World Series in 2010, they will need Cole Hamels to pitch like Cole Hamels and quit channeling his inner Tyler Green.

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Another wacky, crazy Browns week

By PATRICK MCMANAMON - Published: 1:36 pm

This weekend it's all Browns, all the time.

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Cowboys' Roy Williams must do more than talk

By TIM COWLISHAW - Updated: 4:46 pm

It's a time-honored cliche to say of a college football player having a big game, "He will play on Sundays."

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Bucks catch break in rising star Brandon Jennings

By MICHAEL HUNT - Updated: 12:07 pm

Tuesday night in Chicago, Lindsey Hunter, who has been in the league just three years less than the kid has been on the planet, was letting the rookie have it from his catcall perch on the Bulls' bench.

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