neoshodailynews.com http://www.neoshodailynews.com/article/20130107/OPINION/130109168/-1/court%20news neoshodailynews.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. Fri, 20 Dec 2013 06:33:00 +0000 Michael Gerson: The exhausted political class http://www.neoshodailynews.com/article/20131218/NEWS/131218811/0/court news?rssfeed=true Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:38:08 +0000

By Michael Gerson

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The bipartisan budget deal was a welcome exception to congressional gridlock. It was not, unfortunately, an indication that gridlock has been broken in any lasting or fundamental way.



Speaker John Boehner publicly lost his temper with tea party groups because their political strategy -- demonstrated in the manifest failure of the government shutdown -- neglected to specify a path to victory. In selling the budget deal to Republican lawmakers, Boehner and [...]]]> Dana Milbank: Republicans buck the purity police http://www.neoshodailynews.com/article/20131213/NEWS/131219569/0/court news?rssfeed=true Fri, 13 Dec 2013 01:01:00 +0000

By Dana Milbank

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House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), addressing the cameras after his weekly meeting with House Republicans, was his usual, courtly self Wednesday morning -- until Nancy Cordes of CBS News found her way under his tanned skin.



“Mr. Speaker, most major conservative groups have put out statements blasting this deal,” she said of the compromise that House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., reached Tuesday night with Senate Democrats. [...]]]> George Will: Obama’s epiphanies about governing http://www.neoshodailynews.com/article/20131212/NEWS/131219586/0/court news?rssfeed=true Thu, 12 Dec 2013 10:56:54 +0000

By George Will

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The education of Barack Obama is a protracted process as he repeatedly alights upon the obvious with a sense of original discovery. In a recent MSNBC interview, he restocked his pantry of excuses for his disappointing results, announcing that “we have these big agencies, some of which are outdated, some of which are not designed properly”:



“We’ve got, for example, 16 different agencies that have some responsibility to help businesses, [...]]]> TODD G. HIGDON: Please give to food basket brigade http://www.neoshodailynews.com/article/20131211/OPINION/131219618/0/court news?rssfeed=true Wed, 11 Dec 2013 23:44:57 +0000 http://www.neoshodailynews.com/article/20131211/OPINION/131219618/0/court news Kathleen Parker: Republicans and women http://www.neoshodailynews.com/article/20131211/NEWS/131219730/0/court news?rssfeed=true Wed, 11 Dec 2013 11:38:43 +0000

By Kathleen Parker

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Make a woman laugh, Marilyn Monroe supposedly said, and you can make her do anything.



Judging from the women who fell for him, Woody Allen learned this early. Alas, he is the least likely role model for Republican males, who seem to have misinterpreted the meaning of the aphorism.



To clarify: The idea is to make a girl laugh by engaging your wit, not to make her laugh at you.



As Republican leaders recently began [...]]]> Dana Milbank: Immigration activists are hungry for reform http://www.neoshodailynews.com/article/20131210/NEWS/131219930/0/court news?rssfeed=true Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:47:35 +0000

By Dana Milbank

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As immigration activists ended a fourth week of fasting on the Mall, they were buoyed by a promise from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to visit their encampment Monday.



But minutes before Reid’s scheduled appearance at the Fast for Families tents a few blocks from the Capitol, the action’s organizers told reporters and photographers that they had just received a call from Reid’s office canceling his visit. The office blamed the icy [...]]]> Eugene Robinson: Nelson Mandela, the conscience of the world http://www.neoshodailynews.com/article/20131206/NEWS/131209132/0/court news?rssfeed=true Fri, 06 Dec 2013 15:52:56 +0000

By Eugene Robinson

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His smile was like sunshine, but Nelson Mandela was made of steel. It was his strength of character, repeatedly tested throughout his long and impossibly full life, that made him one of the towering political figures of our time.



“Our nation has lost its greatest son,” South African President Jacob Zuma said Thursday as he announced Mandela’s death at age 95. Zuma was being modest. Mandela belonged to the world.



As [...]]]> Dana Milbank: Is ALEC losing its grip? http://www.neoshodailynews.com/article/20131205/NEWS/131209401/0/court news?rssfeed=true Thu, 05 Dec 2013 10:23:58 +0000

By Dana Milbank

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It was like going into the belly of the beast.



This week in Washington is the annual “policy summit” of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a powerful, secretive organization funded by the Koch brothers and other corporate interests that is famous for drafting conservative legislation that Republican state legislatures adopt down to the last semicolon. And the news media were invited to attend!



I descended the [...]]]> Kathleen Parker: The GOP’s toxic messaging http://www.neoshodailynews.com/article/20131204/NEWS/131209476/0/court news?rssfeed=true Wed, 04 Dec 2013 16:59:57 +0000

By Kathleen Parker

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As the government health care website chugs along, the Obama administration has initiated a counter-initiative to combat Republican naysaying -- and its weapons are of superior grade.



The bunker buster is positive messaging and a return to hope and change. For Republicans, it’s whatever the opposite is. Despair and stagnation? Gloating and gloom?



“Obamacare” may be fraught with potentially lethal problems, including [...]]]> Eugene Robinson: Drones are the morally questionable go-to weapon http://www.neoshodailynews.com/article/20131203/NEWS/131209709/0/court news?rssfeed=true Tue, 03 Dec 2013 11:40:56 +0000

By Eugene Robinson

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U.S. drone attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan and other countries may be militarily effective, but they are killing innocent civilians in a way that is obscene and immoral. I’m afraid that ignoring this ugly fact makes Americans complicit in murder.



It is understandable why President Obama has made drone attacks his go-to weapon in the fight against terrorists and the Taliban. Armed, pilotless aircraft allow the CIA and the military to target individuals [...]]]> BILL REIBOLDT: 47 on Missouri's death row http://www.neoshodailynews.com/article/20131202/OPINION/131209802/0/court news?rssfeed=true Mon, 02 Dec 2013 23:47:34 +0000 http://www.neoshodailynews.com/article/20131202/OPINION/131209802/0/court news BILL LANT: More training needed for DSS caseworkers http://www.neoshodailynews.com/article/20131202/OPINION/131209804/0/court news?rssfeed=true Mon, 02 Dec 2013 23:45:03 +0000 http://www.neoshodailynews.com/article/20131202/OPINION/131209804/0/court news E.J. Dionne: The heart of Pope Francis’ mission http://www.neoshodailynews.com/article/20131202/NEWS/131209896/0/court news?rssfeed=true Mon, 02 Dec 2013 11:17:45 +0000

By E.J. Dionne

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Christianity has often been used over the centuries to prop up the powerful. But from the beginning, the Christian message has been subversive of political systems, judgmental toward those at the top, and demanding of all who take it seriously.



Pope Francis has surprised the world because he embraces the Christian calling to destabilize and to challenge. As the first leader of the Catholic Church from the Southern Hemisphere, he is especially mindful of the [...]]]> ALBERTA ANDERS: Lessons from a kitten http://www.neoshodailynews.com/article/20131130/OPINION/131139964/0/court news?rssfeed=true Sat, 30 Nov 2013 21:37:01 +0000 http://www.neoshodailynews.com/article/20131130/OPINION/131139964/0/court news KAY HIVELY: Angel unaware, perhaps? http://www.neoshodailynews.com/article/20131130/OPINION/131139965/0/court news?rssfeed=true Sat, 30 Nov 2013 21:35:05 +0000 http://www.neoshodailynews.com/article/20131130/OPINION/131139965/0/court news WES FRANKLIN: Christmas ornament workshop set http://www.neoshodailynews.com/article/20131130/OPINION/131139967/0/court news?rssfeed=true Sat, 30 Nov 2013 21:32:52 +0000 http://www.neoshodailynews.com/article/20131130/OPINION/131139967/0/court news
A free Victorian Christmas ornament workshop will be held from 2-4 p.m. in the schoolhouse at the Newton County Historical Park and Museum, one block north of the Neosho Square at 121 N. Washington St.

All materials will be provided. If you can, please register beforehand by calling the museum at [...]]]> RUSSELL HIVELY: Popcorn clouds and a modern scribe http://www.neoshodailynews.com/article/20131129/OPINION/131128904/0/court news?rssfeed=true Fri, 29 Nov 2013 09:39:20 +0000 http://www.neoshodailynews.com/article/20131129/OPINION/131128904/0/court news KEVIN WILSON: We can make a difference http://www.neoshodailynews.com/article/20131129/OPINION/131128906/0/court news?rssfeed=true Fri, 29 Nov 2013 09:36:50 +0000 http://www.neoshodailynews.com/article/20131129/OPINION/131128906/0/court news RICHARD DAVIDSON: Bet you didn't know that! http://www.neoshodailynews.com/article/20131129/OPINION/131128907/0/court news?rssfeed=true Fri, 29 Nov 2013 09:33:33 +0000 http://www.neoshodailynews.com/article/20131129/OPINION/131128907/0/court news Esther Cepeda: Giving thanks, the ‘nones’ way http://www.neoshodailynews.com/article/20131128/NEWS/131129166/0/court news?rssfeed=true Thu, 28 Nov 2013 01:01:00 +0000

By Esther Cepeda

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Early 20th-century American author Wallace Wattles was fond of saying that “the exercise of gratitude will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose.”



Just because some people thought the man who wrote the 1910 self-help book “The Science of Getting Rich” was something of a spiritual charlatan doesn’t mean that his take on giving thanks is any less true or relevant today.



However, at a [...]]]> neoshodailynews.com http://www.neoshodailynews.com/article/20130107/OPINION/130109168/-1/court%20news neoshodailynews.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. Fri, 20 Dec 2013 06:33:00 +0000