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Other Views: End of the road for Mars rover
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Oh mighty Spirit, you soared over a mountain as tall as the Statue of Liberty and outlived your predicted demise by five years and nine months. You sent reams of useful data and illuminating images back to us Earthlings while you chugged sturdily... Full story
Our View: Time has come to revisit 'don't ask, don't tell'
Top military brass says gays, lesbians should be able to serve openly
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It will be argued — it has been argued — that allowing homosexual people to serve openly in the military would inevitably undermine morale and unit cohesion. The essence of the argument, as expressed recently by military historian and... Full story
Other Views: Toyota drivers need real assurances
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Toyota's reputation for quality was built in part around the "andon cord." That's a rope workers can pull to shut down an assembly line to fix a small problem before it turns into a big one. Unfortunately, no one at Toyota pulled the "andon cord"... Full story
Our View: Is military spending excessive?
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One thing you can say about the defense budget presented as part of President Barack Obama's $3.8 trillion federal budget is that it is marginally more honest than some previous budgets. In years past Defense secretaries have pretended that the... Full story
Funny business
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OK, here's your chance to choose comic strips for the newspaper. The Appeal-Democrat's planned mid-March redesign offers the opportunity to add two paneled comic strips to the daily (Monday-Saturday) pages. So let me hear from those readers who... Full story
Op-Ed: Get serious about federal deficit
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The growing debt — and our failure to make hard choices to reduce it — is undermining confidence in America abroad, eroding our economic might, and could lead to a historic slide from prominence. Jobs and economic growth must be our top... Full story
Our VIew: Just for laughs
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Any doubt readers are passionate about the newspaper's daily comic strips? Check out these divergent e-mail responses to the solicitation to add two new strips Monday-Saturday as a result of the Appeal-Democrat's upcoming redesign: • "I can't... Full story

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