http://www.post-gazette.com/ Commentary from the Post-Gazette editorial board en-us Copyright 2009, post-gazette.com. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:29:30 -0500 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/images/144x39pgtoplogo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015092-109.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml Now that we've got Fred Rogers memorialized, let's not forget one of Pittsburgh's brightest stars, pleads former PG columnist BARBARA CLOUD Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015093-109.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml Rover has a bigger carbon paw-print than you might think ... and he isn't keen on turning vegetarian, writes humorist JUDY GRUEN Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015095-109.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml On ducking court court orders, taxing pro athletes, commies making a comback, Obama's evil spawn and more Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015096-109.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml But buy now, before it's too late, urges TINA DUPUY Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015097-109.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml Even if everyone gets health insurance, they won't get the health care they need unless we have enough primary-care physicians, says DR. BASIM KHAN Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015098-109.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml What the West has most, and what the Arab world most needs, is education, says PAUL SALEM, director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015172-109.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml Facts that speak for themselves Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015208-109.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml From Ronald Reagan's shining city on a hill to George W. Bush's shining moment on an aircraft carrier, from Bill Clinton's place called hope to Barack Obama's audacity of hope, the last 25 years in politics have provided rich fodder for the cartoonist's pen. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015109-109.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml Rehab wasn't just a matter of healing our injuries Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015110-109.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml Times like these remind me that I should be thankful for not only my wife and kids, my house and job, etc., but even stuff rife with unpleasantness, which also has its place in the universe. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015112-109.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml Giveaways to the big banks make recovery harder now Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015113-109.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml They hired me with a busted lip, / Summer I was fifteen. / Ernie liked me, / he liked all the girls. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015228-109.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml For the late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the "propaganda of the deed." And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 -- not just the most desturctive, but the most spectacular and telegenic. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014854-109.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml Without cost-control, health-care reform is an empty promise Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014855-109.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml A proud working mom, she offers nothing for working moms Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014857-109.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml They need international help to sustain their fragile freedoms Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014607-109.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml ExxonMobil this month became the first U.S. oil company in 35 years to sign an oil-production contract with the government of Iraq. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014608-109.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml Fine, deny global warming; we still have to revolutionize our energy supply Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014609-109.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml It's not fair to tax those who are least able to pay Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500