http://www.bendweekly.com/rss/rss.php en-us Copyright 2013, admin.dcei@gmail.com admin.dcei@gmail.com Opinion http://www.bendweekly.com/rss/rss.php Collection hourly 4 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://www.bendweekly.com/index.php?news=17769 A lot of folks say they like to keep it real, that they want authenticity and straight talk. Yet when someone actually does it, there is hell to pay. Welcome to the world of Miss California, Carrie Prejean, who, since she answered a question regarding same-sex marriage in the Miss ... http://www.bendweekly.com/files/roland-s-martin-web.jpg en-us Miss California, thanks for being honest http://www.bendweekly.com/rss/article_view.php?articleId=17769 Copyright 2013, 2009-04-28T00:00:00-07:00 text http://www.bendweekly.com/index.php?news=17768 The Georgia Dome, home of the Atlanta Falcons football team, was recently crowded with cheering fans and adrenaline-filled competitors. A thrilling competition crowned new champions. But this was not a football game. It was a robotics competition for high school students interested in engineering, a program that now attracts about ... http://www.bendweekly.com/files/Phyllis_Schlafly-copley.jpg en-us How young engineers and our economy are betrayed http://www.bendweekly.com/rss/article_view.php?articleId=17768 Copyright 2013, 2009-04-28T00:00:00-07:00 text http://www.bendweekly.com/index.php?news=17767 After opening the door to a truth commission to investigate torture by the CIA of al-Qaida subjects, and leaving the door open to prosecution of higher-ups, President Obama walked the cat back. He is now opposed to a truth commission. That means it is dead. He is no longer interested ... http://www.bendweekly.com/files/pat-buchanan-web.jpg en-us Is torture ever moral? http://www.bendweekly.com/rss/article_view.php?articleId=17767 Copyright 2013, 2009-04-28T00:00:00-07:00 text http://www.bendweekly.com/index.php?news=17766 Nobody tunes into a beauty pageant and expects a public-policy discussion that could be mistaken for C-SPAN. The long-standing perception about the question-and-answer section at the end is that the aspiring beauty queens will uniformly voice their strong support for world peace, an end to hunger, and free lipstick and ... http://www.bendweekly.com/files/L. Brent Bozell-web.jpg en-us Beauty pageants get ugly http://www.bendweekly.com/rss/article_view.php?articleId=17766 Copyright 2013, 2009-04-28T00:00:00-07:00 text http://www.bendweekly.com/index.php?news=17765 The mantra from the left during the Bush years went something like this: The world is not black and white. Sophisticated minds should seek out different, nuanced opinions. Now that Barack Obama is president, you can say a farewell to nuance. The left chants, "torture doesn't work" — defining waterboarding ... http://www.bendweekly.com/files/deb-saunders-web.jpg en-us The opposite of intelligence http://www.bendweekly.com/rss/article_view.php?articleId=17765 Copyright 2013, 2009-04-28T00:00:00-07:00 text