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- 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...
- The Worst Type of Cad - September 24, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Pretty much by definition, a man who can be described as a cad is not a wholly admirable human being. There are, however, cads whose behavior shows a...
- In Afghanistan, Downsize - September 22, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It's hard to read Gen. Stanley McChrystal's assessment of the Afghanistan War without hearing one of those horror-movie voices that seem to come from...
- Jimmy Carter's Favor - September 18, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- What I wrote last year about candidate Barack Obama -- that to win he had to be seen as "the least-aggrieved black man in America" -- may be even more...
- Wall Street Casino, Back in Business - September 15, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It's been a year since the financial system collapsed like a botched souffle, and the sense of acute crisis has eased. The wizards of Wall Street are...
- GOP Acts Like Spoiled First-Graders - September 11, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Anyone who watched Wednesday night as President Obama explained his health care reform proposals to Congress saw a chief executive making what sounded like...
- Republicans Behaving Badly - Washington Post - September 10, 2009
- One of President Obama's goals in his speech Wednesday night "“ unacknowledged, perhaps, but central "“ must have been to make the intransigient...
- That Muddled Middle - September 8, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The rule among politicians in Washington used to be that when the provincials become restless, as they are now, the safest thing to do is run to the...
- An Accounting Required - September 4, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Torture is a delicate business. The aim is to injure but not incapacitate -- to inflict precisely enough pain and terror to break a subject's will, but no...
- A Good Idea, Up in Flames - September 1, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Los Angeles seemed like a good idea at the time. It was a good idea, actually -- the setting is spectacular and the weather is perfect. No wonder millions...
- Ted Kennedy: An Eternal Prince - August 28, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- That the nation is so moved by the passing of Edward Moore Kennedy testifies to his skill, grace and determination at playing a role that must have been...
- Obama Must Investigate CIA's Abuses - August 25, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- History's demands can seem inconvenient, unfair or unreasonable. But they can't be ignored. The Obama administration has a legal and moral duty to...
- A Little More Heat, Please - August 21, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Here's the least surprising news of the week: Americans are souring on the Democratic Party. The wonder is that it's taken so long for public opinion to...
- One Option Is To Go On Offense - August 18, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It's true that politics is the art of the possible, but it's also true that great leaders expand the scope of possibility. Barack Obama took office...
- Some Welcome Summertime Reading - August 14, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- We're told the economy is on the mend, but we still see six-figure job losses every month. The health care debate has become so polarized that even if it...
- A Reason Behind the Rage - August 11, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Could it be the heat that's making people so angry and unreasonable at those town-hall meetings on health care? Might it just be the effect that Raymond...
- The Berserk 'Birthers' - August 4, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- If there's been a more clinically insane political phenomenon in my lifetime than the "birthers," I've missed it. Is this what our national discourse has...
- A Racial Power Equation - July 28, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- If race were the only issue, there would be much less hyperventilation about Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s unpleasant run-in with the criminal...
- Black America's New Reality - July 20, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- President Obama's speech Thursday marking the 100th anniversary of the NAACP's founding was widely reported as a "tough love" message directed at black...
- A Neutrality That Never Was - July 14, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The only real suspense in the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is whether the Republican Party will persist in tying its...
- A 'Victim' With a Constituency - July 7, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- What can you say about a public official who ridicules those who would take the "quitter's way out" -- as she faces reporters to announce that she's...
- Perils of a Prodigy - June 27, 2009
- Many performers can impress or delight, but only a few can astonish. Michael Jackson did it twice. The first time was October 1969, when the hit single "I Want You Back"...
- The Lone Wolves Among Us - June 12, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- We are blessed to live at a time when violent acts of hatred based on race, ethnicity or religion have become rare, at least in this country. As the act of...
- The Importance of Being Obama - June 9, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- I used to fear that President Obama was overestimating the power of his personal history as an instrument of foreign policy. Now I wonder if he might have...
- Coal's Pipedream? - June 5, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- President Obama should be applauded for taking climate change seriously, recognizing that the phenomenon can be traced to the burning of fossil fuels and...