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Commentary: Mourning to return to Miami Heat

By Linda Robertson - Knight Ridder Newspapers

Friday, Aug. 19, 2005

Alonzo Mourning will be back in a Miami Heat uniform this season, which is a little like confirming that rice will again be served with beans at Versailles restaurant today. Some things are inevitable. Read story.

Keegan: General: Don’t fret skid

By Tom Keegan

Friday, Aug. 19, 2005

The fuss over the Kansas City Royals’ 18-game losing streak is lost on long, tall Dave Steigerwald. “Hang their heads?” Steigerwald echoed incredulously. “They’ve got a long way to go before they can do that. They’re not even a 10th of the way to where I once was.” Read story.

Too late

J-W Editorials

Friday, Aug. 19, 2005

One of the major flaws of our system of protecting the public was spotlighted this week when an illegal immigrant from Mexico was sentenced to five and a half years in prison for the hit-and-run death of a young nurse. The accident occurred last April on West Sixth Street in Lawrence. Read story.

Column lauded

Friday, Aug. 19, 2005

To the editor: Thank you for publishing Michelle Singletary’s wonderful column, “Social Security helps cut poverty,” on Aug. 16. It is a clear, well-documented description of Social Security’s true nature and the widespread, vital, almost life-saving help it has been (and is) to millions of people who otherwise would have suffered terribly. Read story.

Bush strategy won’t calm Iran tensions

By Robert Scheer - Special to the Los Angeles Times

Friday, Aug. 19, 2005

We don’t respect or understand any religious or nationalist fervor other than our own. That myopic distortion has been a persistent historical failure of U.S. foreign policy, but it has reached the point of total blindness in the Bush administration. Read story.

The lost art of walking

By Bronwyn Lance Chester - The Virginian-Pilot

Friday, Aug. 19, 2005

The green Ford Explorer came out of left field. Literally. I had just stepped off the shopping center curb, headed to the parking lot across the roadway. Before setting foot in the crosswalk, I had dutifully craned my neck left and right. Coast clear. Read story.

Global effort

Friday, Aug. 19, 2005

To the editor: Lawrence, Kan., along with sister cities in Germany and Japan, could initiate a “Sister Cities Campaign” to unite the Europeans, the Japanese, the Americans and the rest of the world in a global effort to tackle global warming together as an international team. Read story.

Pet commitment

Friday, Aug. 19, 2005

To the editor: During most of my life, I have had animal companions. Never once did I “purchase” one of them. Read story.

Issues none dare to debate

By Robert Steinback - Knight Ridder Newspapers

Friday, Aug. 19, 2005

For more than two years, many Americans have wondered what noble cause our soldiers are fighting for in Iraq. But to dare to ask the question brought certain denunciation from the neo-conservative political power grid: Only a traitorous, subversive, unpatriotic, flag-burning, communist America-hater would question the virtue of a U.S. military venture. Read story.

Attention needed

Friday, Aug. 19, 2005

To the editor: In response to Paul J. Elliott’s letter of Aug. 14., I, too, wonder if the City Commission cares about us. Read story.

Beautiful word

Thursday, Aug. 18, 2005

To the editor: Apologies and thanks to Surendra Bhana who provided a correction for the meaning of the word “namaste” as I used it in a caption with a photo in the Aug. 8 edition of the Journal-World. Read story.

Economic woes

Thursday, Aug. 18, 2005

To the editor: New urbanism in Lawrence sustaining families that would live in one location forever! Read story.

Minor leaguers chase dream

By George Will

Thursday, Aug. 18, 2005

Realism is overrated. Putting it aside makes possible some sweet things, such as the idea of Santa Claus. And the fact of minor league baseball. Read story.

Excuses?

J-W Editorials

Thursday, Aug. 18, 2005

Germany was raping, pillaging and killing thousands in Europe in the 1930s, and it was obvious that eventually Adolf Hitler and his heinous Nazi crew would have to be stopped. Did anyone ask then what people such as Americans, Britons, French and Scandinavians had done to make the Germans feel so hostile to everyone? How they had been so goaded into their behavior? Read story.

Discourse too often detached from reality

By Jim Hoagland

Thursday, Aug. 18, 2005

As metaphor, Cindy Sheehan’s peaceful siege of George W. Bush’s Texas ranch is pitch perfect. Like Iraq, the ranch was easy to go into. But the president pays a price either for staying or exiting while Sheehan and television cameras perch on the road outside. Read story.

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