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- In Haiti, No Act of Charity - February 9, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- Anyone sitting in a dank, fetid Haitian jail for any reason probably deserves at least a measure of sympathy, so in that sense I feel sorry for the Baptist...
- Stealing from the Gods - February 5, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- A friend of mine once had a Toyota that wouldn't die. The odometer had only a dim recollection of passing 100,000 miles, the body was dinged and the paint...
- The Scott Brown Brand - February 2, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- When I heard Scott Brown, the newly elected senator from Massachusetts, describe himself as a "Scott Brown Republican," I groaned. It sounded as if he's...
- Outsider in Chief - January 29, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- President Obama's first State of the Union address didn't signal a political shift to the left or the right. It sounded more like a shrewd attempt to move...
- Fighting Words, Winning Actions - January 26, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- It's ironic that President Obama could never be convincing as populist in chief. He had a modest upbringing -- his family was on food stamps for a time --...
- The Fight for Health Care Reform - January 22, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- If President Obama has decided to give up on health care reform, he should just come out and say so. Then we could all get on with our lives -- those of us...
- Hard Lessons for a Rookie Year - January 19, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- President Obama begins his second year in the White House with such anemic approval ratings, you'd think he was another Ronald Reagan: Among recent...
- Chairman Mike Turns the Tables - January 15, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- Poetic justice is a beautiful thing. Republican Party grandees were all set to use Michael Steele in the most cynical way. Now it's becoming clear that...
- A Truth, Crudely Put - January 12, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- Skin color among African-Americans is not to be discussed in polite company, so Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's newly disclosed remark about President...
- Let's Try a Few Less Dots - January 8, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- "Connecting the dots" is a lousy metaphor that creates unrealistic expectations. The phrase suggests that the only thing our intelligence analysts have to...
- Cuba Doesn't Deserve Terror Designation - January 5, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- Under new rules prompted by the failed Christmas Day terrorist attack, airline passengers coming to the United States from 14 nations will undergo extra...
- Cheney in Winter - December 31, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It's pathetic to break a New Year's resolution before we even get to New Year's Day, but here I go. I had promised myself that I would do a better job of...
- The System Needs Fixing - December 29, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano's initial assessment of the Christmas Day airliner attack -- that "the system worked" -- doesn't quite match the...
- Christmas Cheer, At Last - December 26, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Christmas came early for journalists this year. Thank you, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, for being the gift that keeps on giving. The gatecrashers who...
- Seizing the Moment on Health Care Reform - December 22, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- When all is said and done -- and, yes, there is a bit more saying and doing to endure, which means that anything can happen -- the health care reform...
- Who Can Play Health Care Hardball? - December 18, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- As the attempt to pass meaningful health care reform stumbles oafishly toward home plate, having missed a base or two along the way, it's hard not to...
- Palin's Climate 'Epiphany' - December 15, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Sarah Palin is such a cold-eyed skeptic about the Copenhagen summit on climate change that it's no surprise she would call on President Obama not to...
- Obama at War and Peace - December 11, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The traditional Nobel Peace Prize lecture, given every year at Oslo's modernist City Hall, does not usually include such words as: "I am responsible for...
- Does Tiger Have a Validation Complex? - Washington Post - December 8, 2009
- Tiger's Validation Complex - December 8, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Leave Tiger alone. Enough with the puns -- we get that he's really just a "cheetah" in disguise. Enough with the Barbie-of-the-Day revelations -- we get...
- The Path Not Taken - December 4, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- President Obama should have declared victory in Afghanistan and begun a withdrawal. His escalation of the war may achieve its goals, but at too great a...
- The Copenhagen Conundrum - December 1, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Climate-change skeptics are barking up the wrong smokestack. The shell game being played isn't with the science, it's with the solutions -- specifically,...
- E-mails Don't Prove Warming is a Fraud - November 27, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Stop hyperventilating, all you climate change deniers. The purloined e-mail correspondence published by skeptics last week -- portraying some leading...
- Rationing, the Unspeakable, But Honest Solution - November 24, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The uproar over the on-again, off-again guidelines on when women should have mammograms is proof of the blindingly obvious: Health care reform that...
- Civilian Trials Help Win War of Ideas - November 21, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Critics of Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to bring the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and four other accused terrorists to New...
- Our Rogue Evita - November 17, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- No force on earth can stop Sarah Palin from becoming our very own "lite" version of Eva Peron -- a glamorous and tragic legend, minus the tragedy....
- Bring Them Home, Mr. President - November 13, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The most dreadful burden of the presidency -- the power to send men and women to die for their country -- seems to weigh heavily on Barack Obama these...
- When a Time Bomb is Ticking - November 10, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- There's a difference between sensitivity and stupidity. If there were indeed signs that Maj. Nidal Hasan, the alleged Fort Hood mass murderer, was becoming...
- Attack of the Palinites - November 6, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Democrats have some thinking to do after Tuesday's elections, but Republicans don't have time to think. They're too busy trying to survive the party's...
- A Record You Can Believe In - November 3, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It's been a year since a healthy majority of American voters elected Barack Obama to change the world. Which is precisely what he's doing. Like many people...
- A Familiar War in Afghanistan - October 30, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The opium poppy was introduced to Afghanistan more than 2,300 years ago by the armies of Alexander the Great. His forces were eventually driven out, like...
- Can't Split the Difference in Afghanistan - October 27, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama didn't set out to be a "war president," but that's what history compels him to be. The nation and the world are fortunate that he doesn't have...
- Stop the Getaway Car - October 23, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Slashing executive salaries, bonuses and perks at the seven bailed-out companies that gorged most gluttonously at the public trough is emotionally...
- Anything to be on TV - October 20, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Now we know the answer to one of the vexing questions of the modern age: Evidently, there is nothing at all that some people won't do to get on...
- No Rush; Limbaugh on Waivers - October 16, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Rush Limbaugh, are you ready for some football? Um, I guess not. The right-wing radio host's attempt to become part-owner of the St. Louis Rams ended...
- Absurd Debate Over Nobel - October 13, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Somebody explain this to me: The president of the United States wins the Nobel Peace Prize, and Rush Limbaugh joins with the Taliban in bitterly denouncing...
- Charlie Rangel's Cloud - October 9, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- House Democrats had better start taking the ethics allegations against Rep. Charlie Rangel seriously. I know it's difficult for those steeped in Capitol...
- Generals Need to Shut Up and Salute - October 6, 2009
- How to proceed in Afghanistan will be among the most difficult and fateful decisions that President Obama ever makes. But he's the one who has to decide, not his...
- Hollywood's Shame - October 2, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Could it be that the conservative culture warriors who portray Hollywood as a cesspool of moral bankruptcy have been right all along? Not really. But in...
- Bring Polanksi to Justice - September 29, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Hasn't Roman Polanski suffered enough? Didn't he endure all those cool, gray, rainy Paris winters? Wasn't he forced -- well, not forced, but strongly...