http://www.richmondregister.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:37:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/viewpoints/local_story_322083759.html http://www.richmondregister.com/viewpoints/local_story_322083759.html Nidal Malik Hasan was two men. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:18:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/viewpoints/local_story_321081853.html http://www.richmondregister.com/viewpoints/local_story_321081853.html Rand Paul wants it both ways. He wants to run for the U.S. Senate by lambasting members of both parties for voting for federal deficits and bailouts of Wall Street and automakers. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:07:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/viewpoints/local_story_320081342.html http://www.richmondregister.com/viewpoints/local_story_320081342.html I was the last one to arrive at the bachelor party, and the conversation had already turned to breasts. "I am such an idiot," one of the party-goers said, literally smacking himself in the forehead with the heel of his hand. "I have the breast pump in the car. And Amy is going to need it." Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:45:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/viewpoints/local_story_318194630.html http://www.richmondregister.com/viewpoints/local_story_318194630.html Years ago, when I was still in Congress, I pulled up one day to address a public meeting in a remote and very rural part of Indiana. The sheriff, a friend of mine, met me outside the small volunteer firehouse where I was to speak. “The Ku Klux Klan is here in full regalia,” he told me. “If you’d like, I’ll keep them out of your meeting.” Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:53:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/viewpoints/local_story_316205434.html http://www.richmondregister.com/viewpoints/local_story_316205434.html Every day, I hear from another woman who is losing her job and her health insurance. Every day, I worry. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:01:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/viewpoints/local_story_315140211.html http://www.richmondregister.com/viewpoints/local_story_315140211.html Random act of kindness reminds group there are still good peopleReader: Tell the PSC and EKPC ‘no’ to new coal-fired plantEKPC responds to alligations of polluting through ash ponds Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:01:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/viewpoints/local_story_315140042.html http://www.richmondregister.com/viewpoints/local_story_315140042.html The other day, for oh … the thousandth time in my life, I waved back at a person who was waving at someone else. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:10:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/viewpoints/local_story_315070744.html http://www.richmondregister.com/viewpoints/local_story_315070744.html The annual Veterans Day ceremonies always take me to another place and time, back to Elliott County of the mid-1940s when the men came home from the war. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:11:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/viewpoints/local_story_314071228.html http://www.richmondregister.com/viewpoints/local_story_314071228.html The Tea Party wing of the Republican Party had the perfect strategy for upstate New York's 23rd congressional district: 1. Support a candidate who doesn't live in the district -- in this case, Conservative Douglas Hoffman. Savage the local Republican choice, Dede Scozzafava, and hound her into dropping out. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:11:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/viewpoints/local_story_311221133.html http://www.richmondregister.com/viewpoints/local_story_311221133.html So bear with me here. This column is eventually going to be about soap but I have to put it into a bit of perspective. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:10:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/viewpoints/local_story_311221015.html http://www.richmondregister.com/viewpoints/local_story_311221015.html Interim City Manager Jimmy Howard and Finance Director Michael Broyles have whittled the city government’s budget deficit down to approximately $855,000. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:48:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/viewpoints/local_story_310164821.html http://www.richmondregister.com/viewpoints/local_story_310164821.html Steve H. Hanke is a Professor of Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., and writes frequently for Globe Asia and Forbes magazine. Professor Hanke starts off his "Hu versus Sarkozy" article (Globe Asia, November 2009) with a warning. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:58:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/viewpoints/local_story_309225920.html http://www.richmondregister.com/viewpoints/local_story_309225920.html As the father of a young daughter, I must say I am a bit disturbed and shocked by the outcome of Brandon Rousey’s text messaging-for-sex case. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:21:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/viewpoints/local_story_309092355.html http://www.richmondregister.com/viewpoints/local_story_309092355.html Exactly who made Bernadine Shimon think that she could buy a new house shortly after declaring bankruptcy and losing another home to foreclosure? The American taxpayer, that’s who. Without a Federal Housing Administration willing to guarantee a $125,000-plus mortgage, this Denver-area schoolteacher’s recurring “dream of homeownership” could not come to pass. Shimon’s down payment was a tiny 3.5 percent. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:06:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/viewpoints/local_story_307075602.html http://www.richmondregister.com/viewpoints/local_story_307075602.html It used to be, this time of year, that we would call out a little treeing squirrel dog and take him to the woods and rejoice when he treed one we could shoot there in the high timber just under the ridges that separated all the hollers in the lower end of Letcher County. And on a good day, my cousins and our good friends and I might harvest a dozen gray squirrels or even more than that for supper, like I think they’ll serve in real thick gravy in Heaven if we ever get there.