Opinion http://www.dnronline.com/rss_opinion.php en-us Failed GOP Tactics A Wake-Up Call. http://www.dailynews-record.com/opinion_details.php?AID=16732&sub=Op-Ed Caption John Rose's Cartoon http://www.dailynews-record.com/opinion_details.php?AID=16588&sub=Cartoon Caption Contest We Need The Greenhouse Effect. http://www.dailynews-record.com/opinion_details.php?AID=16733&sub=Op-Ed Try Smiling, Mrs. O'. http://www.dailynews-record.com/opinion_details.php?AID=16734&sub=Op-Ed Jones Changed His Mind On War. http://www.dailynews-record.com/opinion_details.php?AID=16746&sub=Op-Ed WASHINGTON Three days after last Tuesday's primaries seemingly tilted the Democratic presidential nomination decisively toward Barack Obama, the surprising fact was that almost half http://www.dailynews-record.com/opinion_details.php?AID=16778&sub=Op-Ed Only Time Will Tell. http://www.dailynews-record.com/opinion_details.php?AID=16776&sub=Editorial What Would Orwell Say? http://www.dailynews-record.com/opinion_details.php?AID=16744&sub=Editorial Eggheads For Obama! http://www.dailynews-record.com/opinion_details.php?AID=16745&sub=Editorial Quickie Solutions Unavailable. http://www.dailynews-record.com/opinion_details.php?AID=16777&sub=Editorial Although we have been made to feel ashamed to say we believe in creation, consider this: ID is an acronym for Identification. ID is also an acronym for Intelligent Design. It is OK to believe our identification is intelligen http://www.dailynews-record.com/opinion_details.php?LID=6756&sub=Letters to the Editor Port Road congestion is not a VDOT problem. It is a Harrisonburg problem. We have allowed the city to approve so much construction, student housing, and business there that we have stuffed "10 pounds of traffic into a 5-pound road." http://www.dailynews-record.com/opinion_details.php?LID=6717&sub=Letters to the Editor Verizon is closing its store at 1790 East Market Street on June 21. It is the very last face-to-face contact that Verizon has with the landline side of its operations. The residents of Harrisonburg and the surrounding area use this store to pay home phone bills. We must urge Verizon to keep a http://www.dailynews-record.com/opinion_details.php?LID=6681&sub=Letters to the Editor Let me clue everyone in on John McCain's and Hillary Clinton's gas tax vacation. Gas tax is only 18.4 cents per gallon, less than 5 percent of the cost of a gallon of gas. If a family drove a Toyota Camry round trip from Wa http://www.dailynews-record.com/opinion_details.php?LID=6698&sub=Letters to the Editor In human history, the growth of nations, the rise and fall of empires appear as if dependent on the prowess of man, and determined by his power, ambition or caprice. But in the Word of God the curtain is drawn aside, and we http://www.dailynews-record.com/opinion_details.php?LID=6755&sub=Letters to the Editor A recent article offered  details regarding a lawsuit filed by Cynthia Fitzwater against Becky Neal ("Neal Lawsuit Shows Stress," April 30). The lawsuit claims http://www.dailynews-record.com/opinion_details.php?LID=6707&sub=Letters to the Editor Another round of lies and/or misleading information has been dished out by our government. How many people out there believe they will be getting $600 as an individual from this so-called tax rebate stimulus program? Think http://www.dailynews-record.com/opinion_details.php?LID=6709&sub=Letters to the Editor As a graduate of Harrisonburg High School, still living in the Harrisonburg area, I, along with many others, am concerned, disappointed and outraged at the illicit activities confessed to by members of the football and other athletic teams. http://www.dailynews-record.com/opinion_details.php?LID=6711&sub=Letters to the Editor Thanks to Judge James Lane for the decision to suspend Rebecca Neal from office ("Judge Suspends Neal," May 3). I also want to thank Carolyn Fra http://www.dailynews-record.com/opinion_details.php?LID=6769&sub=Letters to the Editor The Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints have yet produced another atrocity in the name of their beliefs. Anyone who would believe that the marriages (some forced) and impregnation of underage girls is part of a religious belief is either naïve or willfully ignorant. http://www.dailynews-record.com/opinion_details.php?LID=6712&sub=Letters to the Editor We invite all who read this into a friendly conversation on something that strangely, these days, often brings on conflict — namely, peace. We have positive feelings about those who fight in wars. We are grateful http://www.dailynews-record.com/opinion_details.php?LID=6757&sub=Letters to the Editor Parking at the post office on Mason Street is a big hazard. Can't some qualified city father rearrange it, even if we have to park in the larger area in the big parking lot? A very nice officer informed me that while driving out of a parking place, I scraped a neighboring car. Let's make thin http://www.dailynews-record.com/opinion_details.php?LID=6768&sub=Letters to the Editor