http://www.post-gazette.com/ Commentary from the Post-Gazette editorial board en-us Copyright 2012, post-gazette.com. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:40:03 -0500 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/images/144x39pgtoplogo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12047/1210373-109.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml Exorcism is making a big comeback in the Catholic church Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12047/1210374-109.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml The Supreme Court should remedy this egregious violation of private property rights Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12047/1210465-109.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml Instead, they've joined the religious right's culture war on all things Obama Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12047/1210466-109.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml The Morrill Act was designed to provide the "sons of toil" with a college education in the practical fields of agriculture, engineering, military science and the classical arts. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12046/1210143-109.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml It's nice that he thinks the women in our armed forces are "amazing and wonderful" and "a great addition." They are, whether he thinks so or not. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12046/1210142-109.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml He has big advantages over the other non-Romneys who have risen and fallen Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12045/1209948-109.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml And you have to ask, whose park is it anyway? Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12045/1209946-109.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml Charles Murray's "Coming Apart" is a brilliant portrait of the steady breakdown of what he calls America's "founding virtues" within America's working class. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12045/1209947-109.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml The political expletive in this season's Republican presidential race is "Massachusetts moderate," aimed at Mitt Romney. But by almost every important factual measure, Massachusetts is vastly better off than the nation's most right-wing states. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12044/1209949-109-0.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml Watching the Republican Party struggling to agree on a presidential candidate, one wonders whether the GOP shouldn't just sit this election out -- just give 2012 a pass. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:13:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12044/1209809-109.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml Politicized culture wars are debilitating because they almost always require partisans to denigrate the moral legitimacy of their opponents, and sometimes to deny their very humanity. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12044/1209810-109.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml Is the commonwealth government's sense of responsibility to uphold the constitutional mandate to work for the common good of all Pennsylvanians dead? Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12044/1209811-109.stm?cmpid=commentary.xml All elected officials, and those who help finance elections in the expectation that certain promises will be kept -- and everyone who cares about the rule of law -- should hope the Supreme Court agrees to hear Don Siegelman's appeal of his conviction. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500