Opinion

WASHINGTON — Leaving aside the seriousness of lawlessness, and the corruption of our civic culture by the professionally pious, last week was amusing. There was the spectacle of advocates of an ever-larger regulatory government expressing shock about such government’s large capacity for misbehavior. And, entertainingly, the answer to the question “Will Barack Obama’s scandals derail his second-term agenda?” was a question: What agenda?

Drawing the line in

Did you elect

The end of the school year is here, and many students will be taking final exams.

Truth in presentation

Remember the 1996 movie, “A Time to Kill”?

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Three things in a two-week span this month tell you plenty about the way U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan approaches his job in Congress.

Proud to work for Wal-Mart

There’s been a lot of confusion lately about the future of the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center in Lima. We want to set the record straight on this critically important facility.

NEW YORK — If Obama’s Rose Parade of scandals gives you a headache, here’s why: This is your brain on Big Government.

I’m not one to toss the I-word (impeachment) around lightly. The current administration, however, is making it easier to call for that drastic step.

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When states, including Ohio, deregulated the utility industry, competition among utility companies skyrocketed as each scrambled for new territory and profit opportunities. Some of the marketing techniques used by certain utility brokers have come into question and raised the ire of consumers. It is in this environment that scammers have sneaked in to take advantage of people's confusion over who should be their utility company, how much it will cost and who pays the bill.

Putnam County supports its programs

Baltimore Sun

Public education has hit another crossroads. We can collaborate on a liberating vision of school using the new Common Core State Standards, or we will remain trapped in the back-to-basics movement, which narrowed our curriculum and killed curiosity for many students.

AUSTIN, Texas — The twin revelations of the IRS targeting conservative political organizations and, now, that the U.S. Justice Department was spying on The Associated Press — all in a few days — mean this: It is time to air the dirty laundry of this administration’s intelligence and surveillance programs — and it is way past time for heads to roll in Washington.

In a proposal to strengthen judicial elections in Ohio, Maureen O’Connor readily dismisses the best way forward, merit selection. The chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court points reasonably to the repeated rejections by state voters of the method, judges first appointed on their qualifications, then standing for retention elections.

Who is running

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Here we go again. I see in a recent Internet poll by The Lima News that 70 percent of the people who responded to a question regarding the president’s action (coverup?) on Benghazi say he should be impeached. Let those that understand civics and the constitution cast the first stone. In their eyes he already has one and a half strikes against him (he’s a Democrat and half African-American; although this crowd thinks it is a full two strikes) and they usually lose interest in reading any part of the Constitution except the second amendment in the Bill of Rights.

I’m not altogether certain I should be making this announcement. It could be construed as bragging or, at the very least, taunting. It may well lead to a glut of unwanted phone calls from neighbors seeking my expert counsel. At the worst, it might make some of the fellows out there feel a bit, well, inferior.

Crazy woman driver

Highly doubtful

While the concept of viewing a fixed image dates back to Aristotle, and there is some disagreement among scholars as to who should be credited for being the first to recognize the practice of saving someone’s image, finding the person responsible for making the first commercial camera is a whole lot easier.