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- Reaping What We've Sown - July 2, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It hardly seems worth mentioning that the search for role models of sexual rectitude has gone pretty badly lately. That famous poster of Farrah Fawcett --...
- Still Needing U.S. Glue in Iraq - June 30, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- As the media trumpets sound for the pullback of American troops from urban areas in Iraq, the essential lesson of our involvement must be recalled: Nothing...
- Poster Addict for Tobacco Law - June 25, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It's all right to be just a bit defensive when you're the addict in chief. "You just think it's neat to ask me about my smoking as opposed to it being...
- America's Past, On Youtube To Boot - June 23, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The price at the gas pump has been ticking up and unemployment is tightening its grip. Pay cuts, salary freezes and furloughs strangle the wallet. The easy...
- Why Patch-And-Fill Won't Do - June 18, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- You can't get there from here. Not if there is defined as health insurance coverage for everyone in the United States, lower costs for the millions of...
- Guns and the Link We Won't Admit - June 16, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- There are without a doubt links among the extremists who have murdered three Pittsburgh police officers, gunned down a doctor who performed abortions in...
- When Appearances Count - June 11, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The appearance of extreme political impropriety, the Supreme Court has decided, is sometimes just too extreme. The circumstances of West Virginia's chief...
- Outrage -- And Business as Usual - June 9, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- A culprit is required. This is an iron rule of Washington policy malfunctions and political malfeasance. It may be that Angelo Mozilo, the former chief of...
- What Rhetoric Won't Cure - June 4, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The murder of Dr. George Tiller cannot be smoothed over with a speech. This is the lesson the Obama administration must learn from it. Since Tiller was...
- Health Care's Pulse Fading - June 2, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- So it's health care overhaul this year -- or bust. If this is the bet, right now I'd put my money on bust. President Obama's urgency on bringing...
- A Justice for Us All - May 28, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Sonia Sotomayor, a woman and a proud Puerto Rican, is going to be a Supreme Court justice for the majority of us. The talking points repeated with numbing...
- Packing Heat in Parks - May 23, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Hiking boots, check. Sunscreen, check. Water bottles, check. Guns, clips, ammo. Check, check, check. It's enough to make you sick before you've grilled a...
- A Chance to Avert Tragedy - May 21, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- So now we know that pilots responsible for the safety of about a quarter of the flying public rest up for duty by catching a few winks in an airport...
- A Truth Commission Beckons - May 19, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The partisan firefight over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's incendiary allegation that the CIA lied to Congress about its use of "enhanced interrogation...
- Mom's Dreary Retirement Prospects - May 9, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Not to ruin brunch, but Mom's probably not doing very well. Not if she's already retired, not if she's a baby boomer approaching retirement, not if she's a...
- What Did the Media See in Edwards? - May 7, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- I never understood John Edwards' appeal. I therefore do not expect that Elizabeth Edwards' new book, or the tiresome media blitz accompanying its...
- Double Flipping of 'Identity Politics' - May 5, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- In my nearly two decades of covering New York's irrepressible Alfonse M. D'Amato, agreement between us was, to put it politely, rare. Yet there was one...
- Decline of the Middle Skilled - April 30, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- This is how it ends. Or at least, this is how the latest, sad chapter in a story that has been ending for three decades is written. If Chrysler survives,...
- Model for Accounting - April 28, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- His interest, President Barack Obama says, is "the achievement of a full, frank and just acknowledgement of the facts." His topic was the delicate question...
- 'Reform' With No Reform - April 23, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Every so often, I remember Ronald Reagan fondly -- not for his policies but for his skill at the art of persuasion. Right now, for example, I'd like to...
- Lifetime Tenure Undeserved - April 21, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were allowed to leave office undisturbed by anything but their limited capacities for pangs of conscience over the morally...
- The Truth About Taxes and Spending - April 16, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- There's nothing like tax-filing season to remind Americans that the only things certain in life are death and taxes -- or that few public outcries...
- Wrong Road to a Recovery - April 14, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- If you listened closely, you could hear the country exhale these past few weeks as Americans opened their 401(k) statements and began to believe they might...
- Words Must Have Meaning - April 9, 2009
- Now that he is home, Obama has to show that his words have meaning. He must immediately reverse his own inexplicable support for the Bush administration's...
- Silence Meets Despair of Afghan Women - April 2, 2009
- That was then. This is now: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has just signed a law that forces women to obey their husbands' sexual demands, keeps women from leaving...
- With 'Friends' Like These - March 31, 2009
- A Specter vote for the Employee Free Choice Act, organized labor's top legislative goal, was needed to break the expected filibuster by his fellow Republicans. ...
- When Science Loses Out - March 26, 2009
- It was done, of course, at the behest of anti-abortion zealots who consider many commonly used birth control methods as equivalent to terminating a pregnancy. When...
- A Veto Threat's Recuperative Power - March 24, 2009
- Since the firestorm over the bonuses began burning up the airwaves, Obama has managed to take all sides of the issue. He did it again on CBS' "60 Minutes" Sunday,...
- The More Things Stay the Same - March 19, 2009
- Contracts that secured "retention" bonuses for the same wizards who engineered the flimsy financial products that helped bring down the world economy went to 73...
- Tobacco's Reckoning Day - March 17, 2009
- Is this a fantasy? It's a genuine possibility with comprehensive federal regulation of the tobacco industry. An idea that seems to have been on the drawing...
- Our Diminshed Futures - March 12, 2009
- And at this point, we need to confront an elemental truth: No Wall Street rally can obscure the scary historical prospect that most Americans now working can expect...
- The Danger of a Confused Message - March 10, 2009
- A favorite of the MTV crowd, the stunning and successful Rihanna now is a symbol of the ubiquity of domestic violence -- and the dangerously confused message that...
- Chipper on the Hill - March 5, 2009
- "It's a completely different world since we last met here," she told a gathering of journalists and bloggers over breakfast in her office this week. "We are very...
- Medicare Advantage was Neither - March 3, 2009
- For years, public and private studies of Medicare HMOs -- euphemistically called "Medicare Advantage" -- have shown that the program run by the insurance industry...
- Obama Sounds Clintonian - February 26, 2009
- Obama explained in his speech Tuesday night that the newly enacted stimulus package is a temporary but necessary measure to jolt the economy and slow the...
- The Problem is Health Care, Not Entitlements - February 24, 2009
- People bought the propaganda -- at least until an irresponsible consumer credit binge, rapacious banks and rampant speculation began bankrupting the country and...
- How Will Obama Fight the Terrorists? - February 19, 2009
- That is nearly $100 billion more than the economic stimulus package President Obama signed into law on Tuesday. Republicans, who expressed sudden and sanctimonious...
- Middle Class Still Needs Payday Help - February 17, 2009
- The rock-bottom line of the economic crisis isn't that people took out mortgages they couldn't pay while shady brokers and rapacious financiers were all too happy to...
- Obama Needs to Be a Hands-On Leader - February 12, 2009
- "What is your goal? What is the intention? What is the purpose of all this?" an incredulous Dodd asked. "We are talking in denominations that are daunting." And...
- Change Happens When Women Lead - February 10, 2009
- The cheerless truth is that Ginsburg's ill health brings to mind her unique position. She is the only female justice, and has been since Sandra Day O'Connor left the...