Opinions http://www.news-spider.com/Politics/Opinions/index.html Latest Opinions from news-spider.com. News from more than 2,000 sources, updated continuously. en-us © 2008 news-spider.com. All rights reserved. Fri, 16 May 2008 07:48:15 GMT Torture's Blowback http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210926568.html THE GHOSTS of interrogations past have come back to haunt the Bush administration. This week, the legal officer supervising the military trials at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, di ... http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210926568.html Fri, 16 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT Farm Bill Chestnuts http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210926569.html TO HEAR CONGRESS tell it, the farm bill that it just passed by veto-proof margins in both houses is all about helping the poor. House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.), for example, appeared with ... http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210926569.html Fri, 16 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT There Goes the Neighborhood? http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210926570.html AMONG WASHINGTON'S close-in suburbs, Arlington County has a justifiable reputation as a harmonious stronghold of tolerance and moderation. As it remade itself in recent decades from a bedroom suburb i ... http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210926570.html Fri, 16 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT A Sublime Moment For Cable TV--Chris Matthews interviewing Kevin James On Appeasement. http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210930001.html HuffingtonPost.com - Well, this might have been his finest hour. Chris Matthews I mean, confronting Kevin James in the presence of Mark Green on tonight's Hardball. The topic: what it means to compare ... http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210930001.html Fri, 16 May 2008 01:56:02 GMT MARTIN LUTHER KING MEMORIAL ISN'T WORTHY OF THE MAN http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210912531.html Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- "How would you like to go on the bus with the clergymen to Albany tomorrow?" my editor at the Chicago Daily News asked me that turbulent spring in the early 1960s. http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210912531.html Thu, 15 May 2008 23:57:49 GMT New York diary by Oliver Burkeman http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210908997.html Oliver Burkeman: McCain might be studying British politics rather closely when it comes to devising his election strategy http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210908997.html Thu, 15 May 2008 23:29:45 GMT Mark Lawson: Weapons we can't handle http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210909000.html Mark Lawson: This spate of stabbings defies simple remedy, with knives so available and anger so inevitable http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210909000.html Thu, 15 May 2008 23:27:16 GMT Naomi Klein: In the wake of catastrophe comes the whiff of unrest http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210908999.html Naomi Klein: The natural disasters in Burma and China have loosened the repressive grip the countries' rulers exert on their people http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210908999.html Thu, 15 May 2008 23:27:15 GMT Afghan aid that works http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210901790.html The National Solidarity Program empowers local people, but risks underfunding. http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210901790.html Thu, 15 May 2008 21:56:22 GMT Winter Soldiers, Pt. II http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210905264.html The Nation - The Nation -- Over the past two months since this year's Winter Soldier event, a parade of luminaries has gone before Congress to testify about the Iraq War: distinguished generals, cabin ... http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210905264.html Thu, 15 May 2008 21:35:51 GMT