Providing news and information while helping aspiring writers and journalists, http://thesop.org/index.php?category=opinion http://thesop.org/index.php?category=opinion http://thesop.org 118 67 http://thesop.org/images/thesop_118x67.jpg Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:08:00 GMT Everyone who appeared on that show was tarnished by his use of his guests as stalking horses for his preconceptions. http://thesop.org/opinion/2009/11/16/will-cnns-reporters-miss-the-great-fulminator http://thesop.org/opinion/2009/11/16/will-cnns-reporters-miss-the-great-fulminator dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:14:00 GMT Mary Lawrence, the Lucas B B waitress, thought that, after Oswald was arrested, she recognized this man as the same individual who had dined with Ruby earlier that morning. http://thesop.org/opinion/2009/11/15/did-jack-ruby-and-lee-oswald-meet-at-the-lucas-b-b http://thesop.org/opinion/2009/11/15/did-jack-ruby-and-lee-oswald-meet-at-the-lucas-b-b jkays@austin.rr.com (John G. Kays) Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:00:00 GMT Compartmentalized news makes it hard to see the big picture. Example: the cost of sending 30 or 40 thousand more troops to Afghanistan directly impacts our ability to improve health care, but the press ignores the interrelatedness of news in areas "war, health care reform, education "where taxes must fund what the taxpayers want but are unwilling to pay for. http://thesop.org/opinion/2009/11/12/news-is-presented-with-no-narrative-thread http://thesop.org/opinion/2009/11/12/news-is-presented-with-no-narrative-thread dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:30:00 GMT The US Supreme Court is split on the decision to charge minors with life without parole http://thesop.org/opinion/2009/11/10/supreme-court-troubled-with-sentencing-juveniles-to-life-in-prison http://thesop.org/opinion/2009/11/10/supreme-court-troubled-with-sentencing-juveniles-to-life-in-prison crazypenguinman@gmail.com (Tony Graff ) Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:32:00 GMT 'Money can be a friend or foe. How we treat it will determine what it becomes'. http://thesop.org/business/2009/11/10/on-managing-money-my-two-cents http://thesop.org/business/2009/11/10/on-managing-money-my-two-cents ignatiusfernandez@yahoo.co.uk (Ignatius Fernandez) Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:41:00 GMT Thousands of men, women, and children dragged from churches and slashed. This has been India's reality for the last four weeks. http://thesop.org/opinion/2008/10/06/genocide-of-christians-in-india http://thesop.org/opinion/2008/10/06/genocide-of-christians-in-india krzys.wasilewski@yahoo.com (Krzys Wasilewski) Sun, 8 Nov 2009 06:30:00 GMT My partial list of the courageous in a posting asking What Is Courage? now strikes me as partial in the sense of having been partisan. http://thesop.org/opinion/2009/11/07/youth-is-seeded-with-roadside-explosive-devices http://thesop.org/opinion/2009/11/07/youth-is-seeded-with-roadside-explosive-devices dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:20:00 GMT It is crystal clear that the Fort Hood massacre was the work of a Muslim terrorist. The American public is losing confidence in the mainstream media because they refuse to tell the truth. http://thesop.org/opinion/2009/11/06/fort-hood-tragedy-clear-case-of-islamic-terrorism http://thesop.org/opinion/2009/11/06/fort-hood-tragedy-clear-case-of-islamic-terrorism rreyes4966@aol.com (Robert Paul Reyes) Fri, 6 Nov 2009 06:33:00 GMT We must not leave it up to ideologues to tell us what courage is. They think its anything you can beat drums and make speeches about. http://thesop.org/opinion/2009/11/05/there-are-more-heroes-among-us-than-we-think http://thesop.org/opinion/2009/11/05/there-are-more-heroes-among-us-than-we-think dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)) Fri, 6 Nov 2009 03:00:00 GMT A pair of mass shootings at Ft. Hood military post in Texas left at least 7 dead and as many as 30 wounded Thursday, and one suspected gunman is on the loose, the Army said. http://thesop.org/opinion/2009/11/05/breaking-news-massacre-at-fort-hood http://thesop.org/opinion/2009/11/05/breaking-news-massacre-at-fort-hood rreyes4966@aol.com (Robert Paul Reyes) Wed, 4 Nov 2009 05:19:00 GMT Do serial killers have carte blanche to murder with impunity in low income communities? Do the authorities only investigate murders with all due diligence if the victims live in exclusive neighborhoods? http://thesop.org/opinion/2009/11/03/cleveland-serial-killer-body-count-keeps-climbing http://thesop.org/opinion/2009/11/03/cleveland-serial-killer-body-count-keeps-climbing rreyes4966@aol.com (Robert Paul Reyes) Tue, 3 Nov 2009 18:24:00 GMT Attachments are like parasites-- they sap life. Only by uprooting them, will we be able to live balanced lives. http://thesop.org/opinion/2009/11/03/on-being-inordinately-attached http://thesop.org/opinion/2009/11/03/on-being-inordinately-attached ignatiusfernandez@yahoo.co.uk (Ignatius Fernandez) Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:17:00 GMT Commentary on the Somali Centenarian who married a seventeen year old. http://thesop.org/opinion/2009/10/29/i-now-pronounce-you-man-and-wife http://thesop.org/opinion/2009/10/29/i-now-pronounce-you-man-and-wife crazypenguinman@gmail.com (Tony Graff ) Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:56:00 GMT Last week most of the country was interrupted during their Soap Opera show time to watch a balloon shaped like a flying saucer http://thesop.org/opinion/2009/10/19/up-up-and-awayballoon-drama-in-the-sky-a-hoax-or-reality http://thesop.org/opinion/2009/10/19/up-up-and-awayballoon-drama-in-the-sky-a-hoax-or-reality clovermorning@aol.com (Ron G. Anselm) Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:15:00 GMT The rap against the President is that he has done nothing to deserve the prize, that talk does not constitute action. But talk "and not just talk, but the way it is conducted, its demeanor "is action. http://thesop.org/opinion/2009/10/15/nobel-peace-prize-critics-act-as-if-20th-century-never-happened http://thesop.org/opinion/2009/10/15/nobel-peace-prize-critics-act-as-if-20th-century-never-happened dmmarbrook@earthlink.net (Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor))