Opinion

When President Barack Obama blocked approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico last month, he stalled thousands of U.S. jobs and strained U.S. relations with our neighbor to the north. He made a bad decision.But he...... Full story

On Jan. 20, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reaffirmed its rule that all private health-care plans must cover contraception, abortion-inducing drugs and sterilizations. This is a violation of freedom of religion.People of many...... Full story

Why would anyone in our homophobic society choose to be homosexual? Science found the gene determining homosexuality is stronger than the gene determining right or left handedness. And the history of lefties is instructive in considering this...... Full story

Breaking news: When it came to the collapse of the bubble that touched off the 2008 meltdown of the U.S. economy, the Federal Reserve was a placid herd of clueless blockheads. Less than two years before the housing market turned kamikaze, Fed...... Full story

I wish Mitt Romney's cavalier dismissal of poverty in America could be chalked up as just another gaffe, but it's much worse than that. The Republican front-runner seems dangerously clueless about the nation he seeks to lead. When I first heard the...... Full story

Ohio knows as well as any place that, as the auto industry goes, so goes the economy. Right now, both are looking up.Honda delivered more good news Wednesday. The automaker with a heavy Ohio presence plans to spend $98 million on a new line at the...... Full story

Here is something I want to share. What brought this up is the latest movie on the black fighter pilots during World War II. I have the greatest respect for them. During World War II, four of the Schmidt boys were in the service overseas. My older...... Full story

This is in regard to William M. Freund's letter Saturday, “Ohio law, Genesis clear on gay marriage,” and Lima Mayor David Berger's recent signing of a petition supporting gay marriage. I am getting frustrated with everyone's bashing of...... Full story

I would love to see new manufacturing in our region. I wish, however, we could find an industry that actually can survive without government handouts and benefit society. Lima Energy is not one of them.I would like to quote our government's own...... Full story

A few weeks ago, Rick Santorum got some criticism for saying the Supreme Court erred in saying states may not outlaw contraception. The idea that Americans could legally be forbidden to buy condoms or birth control pills struck most people as a...... Full story

My 95-year-old dad interrogates me in the colder months of every year about two small, bullet-shaped devices on the front end of my car.They are high-pitched whistles called “deer alerts” made to keep deer from jumping in front of...... Full story

BOSTON — Suppose you get a fundraising appeal from an organization that seems commendable. You consider clicking “Donate Now” to hand over $20. But you find out that the organization's founder said that its purpose was...... Full story

TOWSON, Md. — Almost 100 years ago, in the fall of 1916, a courageous visionary opened a birth control clinic in Brooklyn. After the death of a patient from a botched abortion in 1912, Margaret Sanger had begun preaching her solution: If women...... Full story

To many liberals, the thing that distinguishes them from conservatives is that those on the right lack empathy. It's not a particularly fair criticism of an ideology more informed by a love of individualism and distrust of collective solutions to...... Full story

The Egyptian military was very comfortable with the dictatorship of President Hosni Mubarak, who ruled the country for 30 years before being forced out by mass protests last year. And though the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has assumed...... Full story