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<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>Ventura County Star Stories: Opinion</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/opinion/</link><atom:link href="http://venturacountystar.com/news/opinion/" type="application/rss+xml" rel="self"></atom:link><description>Ventura County Star Stories: Opinion</description><language>en-us</language><category>opinion</category><item><title>Thomas: Founding Fathers couldn't foresee this
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/17/founding-fathers-couldnt-foresee-this/</link><description><![CDATA[ >Please crank up your imagination a notch or two, if you will, and try to envision this scene.  ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/17/founding-fathers-couldnt-foresee-this/</guid><category>opinion/opinion</category></item><item><title>Editorial: It will be too  late Tuesday  
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/17/it-will-be-too-late-tuesday-dont-forget-to-to/</link><description><![CDATA[ Mesa Union School District is counting on the Somis-area community to step up to the plate and pass a much-needed school bond June 3.  ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/17/it-will-be-too-late-tuesday-dont-forget-to-to/</guid><category>opinion/opinion</category></item><item><title>Clinton, Bozo and the Bosnian superdelegates
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/17/clinton-bozo-and-the-bosnian-superdelegates/</link><description><![CDATA[ Hillary Clinton has proved a relentless, even implacable campaigner, a veritable Inspector Javert among politicians. But it is clear she is coming to the end of her string.  ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/17/clinton-bozo-and-the-bosnian-superdelegates/</guid><category>opinion/opinion</category></item><item><title>Editorial: Yes on Measure A
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/17/yes-on-measure-a/</link><description><![CDATA[ If you're not registered to vote, now is the time to do so. Monday is the deadline to register to vote in California's June 3 primary election.  ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/17/yes-on-measure-a/</guid><category>opinion/opinion</category></item><item><title>Pa Ventura
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/17/no-headline---ob13paven17/</link><description><![CDATA[ Pa Ventura offers his words of wisdom.   ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/17/no-headline---ob13paven17/</guid><category>opinion/opinion</category></item><item><title>Editorial: A victory for basic rights
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/16/a-victory-for-basic-rights/</link><description><![CDATA[ With Thursday's 4-3 California Supreme Court ruling that overturned a voter-approved ban on gay marriage, California may soon be the second state in the union to allow couples of the same gender to marry.  ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/16/a-victory-for-basic-rights/</guid><category>opinion/opinion</category></item><item><title>Give citizens right to vote
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/16/give-citizens-right-to-vote/</link><description><![CDATA[ The big, bad box stores are at it again. This time, the global predator is Home Depot. Using all the bully-boy tactics that money can buy to squash local competition, since the Big Orange steamroller has rolled into town, more than a dozen Conejo competitors have closed their doors for good.  ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/16/give-citizens-right-to-vote/</guid><category>opinion/opinion</category></item><item><title>Schwarzenegger gives up
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/16/schwarzenegger-gives-up/</link><description><![CDATA[ Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has now abandoned his goal of fixing the problem that led to his historic election in 2003. With his revised budget proposal, the governor has effectively conceded that California's era of perpetual budget deficits will not end on his watch.  ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/16/schwarzenegger-gives-up/</guid><category>opinion/opinion</category></item><item><title>Thomas: Founding Fathers couldn't foresee this
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/17/founding-fathers-couldnt-foresee-this/</link><description><![CDATA[ >Please crank up your imagination a notch or two, if you will, and try to envision this scene.  ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/17/founding-fathers-couldnt-foresee-this/</guid><category>opinion/opinion</category></item><item><title>Herdt: A grown-up in the house
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/14/a-grown-up-in-the-house/</link><description><![CDATA[ Karen Bass, sworn in as speaker of the California Assembly on Tuesday, made history by becoming the first African-American woman to lead a legislative body anywhere in the United States.  ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/14/a-grown-up-in-the-house/</guid><category>opinion/opinion</category></item><item><title>Kelley: As with drugs, just say no to Barbie's lure
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/12/as-with-drugs-just-say-no-to-barbies-lure/</link><description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago, Iranian Prosecutor General Ghorban Ali Dori Najafabadi just said no to the destructive cultural and social consequences of Western toys. He's sick and tired of Iranian markets being inundated with the Barbies, Batmen, Spidermen and Harry Potters arriving on his shores through "unofficial" sources.  ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/12/as-with-drugs-just-say-no-to-barbies-lure/</guid><category>opinion/opinion</category></item><item><title>Paulson: McCain's wild card: trust
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/12/mccains-wild-card-trust/</link><description><![CDATA[Why has Sen. John McCain won the Republican nomination, and why will he win the election in November? One word: trust. I didn't predict it. I didn't even vote for him in our primary, but I'm coming to appreciate what I think a lot of Americans understood about this rock-solid patriot and public servant. At a time of economic and geopolitical uncertainty, we want a leader we can trust.  ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/12/mccains-wild-card-trust/</guid><category>opinion/opinion</category></item><item><title>Thomas: Kicking some of today's e-addictions
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/10/kicking-some-of-todays-e-addictions/</link><description><![CDATA[ How many new gadgets must we buy and get addicted to before we start kicking some electronic habits?  ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/10/kicking-some-of-todays-e-addictions/</guid><category>opinion/opinion</category></item><item><title>Measure of a mother
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/11/measure-of-a-mother/</link><description><![CDATA[Every morning when I walk into my kitchen, I think of my mother, and I'm sure that busy as she must be in culinary heaven, she'd be happy about that. At the ready near breakfast makings is a worn, slightly battered tin measuring cup that she gave me decades ago. It was probably one I used when working with her in cooking and baking back home in St. Louis.  ]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/11/measure-of-a-mother/</guid><category>opinion/opinion</category></item><item><title>My mother, Lupe Villa, shows resilience, strength of spirit
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/11/my-mother-lupe-villa-shows-resilience-strength/</link><description><![CDATA[Almost three years ago, my mother was diagnosed with colon cancer and survived it. But this year, she developed a condition in the colon wall that needed to be excised. Today, Mother is home after almost three months of hospital and rehabilitation care and recovery. However, in between, she survived a savage staph infection she got in the hospital.  ]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/11/my-mother-lupe-villa-shows-resilience-strength/</guid><category>opinion/opinion</category></item><item><title>The day that changed my life
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/11/the-day-that-changed-my-life/</link><description><![CDATA[I was a typical high school teenager until the day I found out I was pregnant — the worst day of my life. I went to the doctor with my mom because I had been throwing up for almost a month and we wanted to figure out why. My doctor came back with some test results. She listed everything it was not, before she dropped the bomb: "Well, it's not cancer, thankfully, and it's not diabetes," she said, and continued until, finally, I heard the words: "But you are almost eight weeks pregnant."  ]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/11/the-day-that-changed-my-life/</guid><category>opinion/opinion</category></item><item><title>3 weeks in India: 'I will never be the same'
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/04/3-weeks-in-india-i-will-never-be-the-same/</link><description><![CDATA[For three-and-a-half weeks over winter break, I embarked on a journey that changed me and my entire outlook on life. Along with 13 other California Lutheran University students, I went for a trip to India led by professors Dr. Paul Hanson and Dr. Druann Pagliassoti. The previous semester of studying the country and seeing slides could never have prepared me for what was to come.  ]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/04/3-weeks-in-india-i-will-never-be-the-same/</guid><category>opinion/opinion</category></item><item><title>3 weeks with the scarf: Dispatch from Turkey
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/04/3-weeks-with-the-scarf-dispatch-from-turkey/</link><description><![CDATA[I am sitting on a bench in the chilly winter sunlight with a fellow teacher at Bilkent University, where I teach English conversation skills. Around us, the treeless steppes of Anatolia are blanketed in snow. A student walks by, her head wrapped in a scarf of purple silk. My friend, her own head exposed to the wind, takes a drag on her Winston.  ]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/04/3-weeks-with-the-scarf-dispatch-from-turkey/</guid><category>opinion/opinion</category></item><item><title>Protect quality, vote no
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/16/protect-quality-vote-no/</link><description><![CDATA[ On June 3, Thousand Oaks voters will be asked to vote on a bogus measure that bills itself as a traffic control initiative  ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/16/protect-quality-vote-no/</guid><category>elections/opinion</category></item><item><title>Your letters: Oxnard Traffic Initative
</title><link>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/15/no-headline---ob9oxtraffic15-wc/</link><description><![CDATA[ Letters sent in for May 15, 2008  ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 07:00:00 -0000</pubDate><guid>http://venturacountystar.com/news/2008/may/15/no-headline---ob9oxtraffic15-wc/</guid><category>elections/opinion</category></item></channel></rss>