Sunday, November 25, 2012

Your 12 hourly digest for Opinions: Washington Post Opinion, Editorial, Op Ed, Politics Editorials - The Washington Post

Opinions: Washington Post Opinion, Editorial, Op Ed, Politics Editorials - The Washington Post
The Washington Post Opinions section features opinion articles,newspaper editorials and letters to the editor on the issues of the day. Offerings include the Post Partisan blog by Washington Post opinion writers, as well as political cartoons and political cartoon animations by editorial cartoonists Tom Toles and Ann Telnaes.
Joel Achenbach: Notre Dame rescues BCS
Nov 25th 2012, 15:33

I've been hauling bolts of wood home in the trunk of my Honda. My neighbor has pointed me to a seemingly endless supply of wood, much of it Derecho-derived, sawed into pieces but not split. No one should ever have to buy firewood again, is my argument, and so I'm spending a lot of time bear-hugging bolts of oak and maple and hauling them to my car and then back to the city. By my back door rises a Ziggurat of unsplit wood, a pile that grows despite my whittling away at it with wedge and sledge and the occasional vicious blow with the axe.

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Greg Sargent: Sunday Open Thread
Nov 25th 2012, 13:01
Jennifer Rubin: Distinguished pol of the week: Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad
Nov 25th 2012, 12:45

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad (R) spoke sense about the Ames straw poll last week when he told fellow Republicans that it "has been a great fundraiser for the party, but I think its days are over." The Iowa state GOP chair was quick to pipe up that the governor doesn't get the final say on the straw poll. But Branstad was smart to begin the conversation on the GOP primary process and to acknowledge that the hoopla surrounding the straw poll mainly benefits the media, not the primary process. (In 2012 it forced Tim Pawlenty out, perhaps prematurely and gave Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) an ultimately meaningless boost.)

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