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- 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...
- In Death Do Us Part Company - August 30, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Reaction to Sen. Ted Kennedy's death suggests that there really are two Americas. One side sees in Kennedy a liberal lion who fought for the greater good,...
- Defusing the Google Bomb - August 26, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- When Oscar Wilde observed that the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about, he could not have imagined the Internet. The wild...
- Hitler in August - August 23, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Midway through the month's town hall meetings on health care, it seems the shark has jumped the shark -- and even Hitler must be sick of himself. The...
- An Organic Approach to Health Care - August 19, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Now is the time for all good capitalists to shop at Whole Foods. Not only will you get great produce, fresh meat, fish and healthy to-go meals, but you'll...
- Taking the President On Faith - August 16, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Oh, for those halcyon days when our biggest worry was whether the federal "faith-based" office might encourage a homeless person to find Jesus. Remember...
- Sometimes Slopes Really Are Slippery - August 12, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Sarah Palin was right, the second time. We do need to turn down the rhetorical heat lest we miss important issues in the proposed House health care...
- Outrage Begins to Dog Us - August 9, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Maybe it's the dog days, but three friends recently got in touch within a 24-hour period to catch up. Or more like it, to catch their breath. One reported...
- Them Dang Southerners - August 5, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Southern writer Walker Percy liked to poke fun at Ohioans in his novels, just to even things out a bit. "Usually Mississippians and Georgians are getting...
- A Crude Reality - August 2, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- What's in a name? A bit of deception when it comes to the American Clean Energy and Security Act. A more accurate title might be: the American Clean Energy...
- Race to Redemption - July 29, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- People say: Why are we still talking about Crowley and Gates? And then they commence to talk for 15 minutes about Crowley and Gates. The reason we persist...
- Reforming Reform the Utah Way - July 26, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- In a way, it's too bad President Obama tapped Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman to serve as ambassador to China. The ambassador-designee promised a Senate panel...
- The Cronkite Factor - July 22, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- There was something about Uncle Walt. He was so ... avuncular. Cronkite became the most trusted man in television precisely because he seemed so grown up....
- Sinkhole on the High Road - July 19, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Followers of Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court confirmation hearings were witness to a now-familiar phenomenon. Women are treated differently than men in...
- The Mystery of Sonia Sotomayor - July 15, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Doubtless thousands of other women's ears perked up when Sen. Charles Schumer, introducing Sonia Sotomayor at Monday's confirmation hearing, mentioned the...
- Death By Fame - July 12, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The sad tale of Michael Jackson will be retold a few thousand times more as autopsy reports and estate details emerge. Meanwhile, the presumed verdict is...
- A League of Her Own - July 8, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- When you're up to your waders in barracuda, blame the media. And quit your job. And say you did it for the people. And hire an agent. And try to keep a...
- Please Cry For Me, South Carolina - June 26, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- A wise man once said that love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. No one who managed to get through the torture of South Carolina Gov. Mark...
- The Meaning of Neda - June 24, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Every revolution needs a unifying symbol, and members of Iran's opposition movement now have theirs. That was one dumb sniper who took out the young woman...
- South Carolinians Gone Ape - June 21, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Rusty DePass, the South Carolina Republican activist who infamously "joked" that an escaped zoo gorilla was probably an ancestor of Michelle Obama's, has...