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- Men, Grab Your Shovels - February 10, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- Much time and many volumes have been devoted to Freud's famous question -- What do women want? -- with little commensurate attention to the male...
- Don't Ask - February 7, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- Repealing "Don't ask, don't tell" may be the right thing to do, but there's only one reason to do it: military effectiveness. Yet, repeatedly, we hear the...
- A Dearth of Enigma - February 3, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- My favorite thing about J.D. Salinger wasn't his seminal work -- or his most famous character, Holden Caulfield -- but how little I knew of him, thanks to...
- Obama's Fight Club - January 27, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- In the run-up to Barack Obama's State of the Union address, the so-called narrative question is whether the president will be -- pick a curtain -- party...
- Red-Meat Republicans - January 24, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- Sure, he's got the jutting jaw and centerfold looks. He's got the truck. But does Scott Brown kill his own meat? Of late, it seems, Republicans are...
- Scott Brown's Body Politic - January 20, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- There will be much harrumphing and punditry in the next few days about the meaning of Scott Brown's victory and his phenomenal campaign for Ted Kennedy's...
- Give Satan a Holiday - January 17, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- Tragedy often brings out the best in some people. And sometimes, it brings out the worst. Please direct your attention to Exhibits A and B, Pat Robertson...
- Reflections in a Glass Ceiling - January 13, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- Ask yourself: Who is likely to be the first woman president of the United States? Anyone? Anyone? Despite our assumption that a female president is...
- In a Blue State, Red Star Rising - January 10, 2010
- The Jan. 19 special election to fill Ted Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat is beginning to resemble the 2008 presidential election, when the "inevitable" Hillary Clinton was...
- To Ellen with Love - January 6, 2010
- I confess to feeling only slightly more rational than "Misery's" Kathy Bates. I want to strap Ellen Goodman into a chair and make her keep writing columns. Goodman,...
- It's Obama's Ball Now - January 3, 2010
- As the new year commences, two facts emerge: George W. Bush is officially retired as the fault-guy for the nation's ills, and Barack Obama owns the game. Whether he...
- Merely Mortal - December 20, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Perhaps it is the spirit of the season, but my empathy receptors are in overdrive for poor Barack Obama. All he wanted for Christmas was a health care...
- A Wife's Tale of Foul Play - December 16, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- To a self-described "old feminist" such as Hadassah Lieberman, the recent blog-inspired attack against her -- all related to husband Joe Lieberman's...
- The Reluctant Warrior - December 11, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- After Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize speech, anyone still questioning whether he is really a Christian, rather than a Muslim aligned with fanaticism,...
- Santorum's Resurrection - December 9, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Is Rick Santorum running for president of the United States, or isn't he? I caught him by phone on a people mover at Dulles Airport and posed the question:...
- A Question of Character - December 6, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Americans are more divided than ever, and both Democrats and Republicans are to blame. So say a majority of citizens polled as part of USA Network's...
- Breaking Gossip - December 2, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The feeding frenzy over Tiger Woods' tiny run-in with a fire hydrant has taken voyeurism to new depths. Where was he going at 2:25 in the morning? Why...
- Looking at a GOP Suicide Pact - November 29, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Some people can't stand prosperity, my father used to say. Today, he might be talking about Republicans, who, in the midst of declining support for...
- A Woman to Watch - November 25, 2009
- COLUMBIA, S.C. -- On Monday, as news filtered out that beleaguered South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford was being charged with 37 ethics violations, the woman who wants his...
- Hating Your Cake, and Eating it, Too - November 22, 2009
- COLUMBIA, S.C. -- In town to give a talk on civility, I was surrounded by women who wondered what I thought of Sarah Palin's Newsweek cover. "Why aren't women coming to...
- Minding Our Manners - November 15, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Growing concern about incivility is one of America's more appealing trends. Increasingly, individuals and institutions are seeking ways to burnish the...
- China's Choice - November 11, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- One of the few incontrovertible assertions one can reasonably make is that no one supports forced abortion. Yet, coerced abortions, as well as involuntary...
- The Passion of Henry Allen - November 8, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The so-called "newsroom brawl" between an editor and a writer at The Washington Post recently has been a fine distraction for the health-care-weary. The...
- Saving the News - November 1, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Each time another report surfaces about the decline of newspapers, I feel like a death row inmate counting the warden's footsteps. The latest echo of doom...
- Jumping Through Hoops to Please Women - October 28, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- As if President Obama didn't have enough on his plate with health care and Afghanistan, he's now faced with the problem that can't be solved: Women. Sorry,...
- Franken Sense - October 25, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Picking one's battles has never been trickier, especially if you're a member of the benighted Republican Party. So the question is this: Do you support...
- Reefer Sanity - October 21, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- In an act of merciful sanity, the Obama administration has made good on its promise to stop interfering with states that allow the medical use of...
- Send Out the Clowns - October 18, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- As the war of words escalates between conservative gabmeisters and the White House, Americans might pause to wonder: Have we lost our minds? On any given...
- Republican Women - Hear Them Roar - October 14, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- As the Republican Party continues its pilgrimage through the desert, its leaders may be missing the oasis for the vale of tears. The answer to the party's...
- When Progressives Go Retro - October 11, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Virginia women have plenty of reason to feel offended by their state's gubernatorial race, though not because the Republican candidate once wrote a...
- A Miscarriage of Propriety - October 7, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- For those whose lives revolve primarily around real people in real time and real space, hurry, go hide. Here's what you missed in the social networking...
- Planet Polanski - October 4, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- In a 24/7 media world, one would have expected the story of Roman Polanski to last, oh, about 9 1/2 minutes. He raped a girl, admitted it, fled the country...
- The World is a Fire Hydrant - September 30, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- In keeping with his campaign promise to talk to America's enemies without precondition, Barack Obama plans to turn his charms on Burma's military...
- Interview with an Apostate - September 23, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- No one was more delighted by the recent ACORN pimp 'n' prostitute, hidden-camera sting than Marcel Reid, the former ACORN board member who was booted in...
- Playing the Race Deck - September 20, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Charges of racism these past several days, from op-ed pages to Jimmy Carter's interpretation of Rep. Joe Wilson's "You lie!" outburst, are proving ......
- Perchance to Duel? - September 16, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Not so long ago, Rep. Joe Wilson's verbal assault on the president -- "You lie!" -- might have produced a much different outcome. Instead of the U.S. House...
- Joe Wilson Loses It - September 11, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson seems to have set a precedent Wednesday night when he called the president a liar during a joint session of...
- What Was All the Fuss About? - September 9, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Just when you thought things couldn't get any stupider, schools across the nation decided to censor President Obama's speech urging kids to work hard...
- A Choice He May Regret - September 6, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- As President Barack Obama prepares to address Congress on health care reform, America's pro-life movement is gassing up. If Obama hasn't liked the tenor of...
- Silence Isn't Golden in Politics - September 2, 2009
- COLUMBIA, S.C. -- When people think of South Carolina, they think of ... I know, Comedy Central. Really, shouldn't Jon Stewart send South Carolinians a cut of his...