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- Budget on the Path to Ruin - February 9, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- The new era of Democratic bipartisanship, like cut flowers in a vase, wilted in less than a week. During his question time at the House Republican retreat,...
- The Betrayals of a Community Organizer - February 4, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- Former community organizer Barack Obama once seemed to recognize the important role of community institutions. It was among his few credible claims to...
- Realism and Regime Change in Iran - February 2, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- It means something in foreign policy circles when realists and idealists converge on a policy -- as they are beginning to do on Iran. Realists -- think...
- Obama Shows Poor Leadership - January 28, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- The most revealing congressional reaction following President Obama's State of the Union address came from Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina: "He sort of...
- Obama & Conventional Liberalism - January 26, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- One of the kinder explanations for President Obama's failed first year is that his agenda was just too darned ambitious. Like Bill Clinton on health reform...
- Will Obama Part Ways with Pelosi & Reid? - January 21, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- If Tuesday had been a national election, Scott Brown's victory merely would have been the high-water mark of a Republican deluge. A five-point win in...
- Fighting the Mancession - January 19, 2010
- MARTINSVILLE, Va. -- This town of 15,000 in southwest Virginia is a good candidate for Anywhere, USA. There is bingo at the Elk's Lodge every Monday night. Bowling is a...
- In Praise of Tact - January 14, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- Just weeks after the Supreme Court took a landmark case featuring a demand for greater communication privacy, many took to Facebook to reveal the color of...
- Obama's Speeches Become a Weak Point - January 12, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- Along with President Obama's declining public standing has come a declining rhetorical reputation. There is, of course, a relationship between the two....
- Narrowing Our Public Discourse - January 8, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- After urging Tiger Woods to accept the "forgiveness and redemption that is offered by the Christian faith" -- and comparing Buddhism unfavorably to that...
- Lip Service vs. Leadership - January 5, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- The word "vigilance" is sometimes mocked as reactionary and jingoistic. As in: "We must be vigilant to protect the homeland during this duck-and-cover...
- Christmas Hope - December 25, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- For me, Christmas brings images of boxes, not wrapped but valued. At the end of rural road in Kericho, Kenya, there is a compound overrun by playing...
- Votes For Sale in the Senate - December 22, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Sometimes there is a fine ethical line between legislative maneuvering and bribery. At other times, that line is crossed by a speeding, honking...
- A Draconian Step in Uganda - December 17, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It is sad when someone you care about threatens to do a foolish and destructive thing. In this case, it is not a relative or a friend but a country. Uganda...
- Surgery By Moonlight - December 15, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It is symbolic of the Senate's health care bill that the section titled "No lifetime or annual limits" would allow insurance companies to impose annual...
- The Scientific War on Science - December 10, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- An e-mail from my conscience: Reviewing your assorted botches during the past year, consider this one. In May, you mocked: "It is possible that climate...
- Huckabee's Tragic, Reasonable Choice - December 8, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- If it weren't for bad luck, Mike Huckabee would have no luck at all. Of all the deranged criminals in the country, Maurice Clemmons -- granted clemency by...
- Obama's Case to Make - December 3, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- President Obama's decision on Afghanistan was tardy, messy -- and courageous. In contrast to the expectation that he would settle on a timid half-measure,...
- Fatigues Under the Mullah's Robes - December 1, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- With a decision on Afghanistan, we will now see if a reluctant president can persuade a reluctant Congress and inspire a reluctant nation to accept...
- Journalism's Slow, Sad Death - November 27, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Like the nearby Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, the Newseum -- Washington's museum dedicated to journalism -- displays dinosaurs. On a long...
- Holder's Decision is Embarrassing & Offensive - Wash Post - November 24, 2009
- Two weeks ago, in the Friday news black hole with President Obama safely on the way to Asia, Attorney General Eric Holder announced his decision to award five Sept. 11...
- Mugabe's Fearless Opposition - November 24, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- As Americans count their blessings, it is useful to remember women who count their beatings -- in the once-fair country of Zimbabwe, cursed by Robert...
- Obama's Dysfunctional Decision-Making - November 19, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- In the beginning, the Obama administration directed a spotlight toward its careful, thoughtful decision-making process on Afghanistan. National security...
- Eric Holder's Grave Mistake - November 17, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Eric Holder -- distinguished prosecutor, judge, foe of public corruption, basketball enthusiast, mentor to disadvantaged youth -- seemed a reassuring...
- Losing the Fight for Darfur - November 12, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The genocide in Darfur is no longer a trendy, breathless global cause. But the women of Darfur haven't gotten the message. On May 15, a woman near the Al...
- Obama Needs Leadership Transfusion - November 10, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The decision on President Obama's Afghanistan strategy -- expected during the next few weeks -- finally seems close. After a process attacked as dithering...
- Obama Cedes the Center - November 5, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- During long campaign swings in Virginia's recent gubernatorial campaign, Bob McDonnell's staff would count the cars that sported both Obama and McDonnell...
- Funding Health Care on the Backs of the Young - November 3, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- As I was talking recently with the founder of a large American corporation, the conversation turned (inevitably) to health care reform. His employees in...
- Too Small to Lead - October 29, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- R. Creigh Deeds, the Democratic candidate for Virginia governor, seems poised to lose the jewel in President Obama's political crown. In November 2008,...
- Giving Democracy a Dose of Clarity - October 27, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- There have been various attempts over the decades to bury moral philosophy -- to dismiss convictions about right and wrong as cultural prejudices, or...
- An Evening with the Grand Mufti - October 22, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Sheik Ali Gomaa, the Grand Mufti of Egypt, possesses a wonderfully exotic title, a scholarly manner and the unique burden of issuing about 5,000 fatwas a...
- Snowe's Lonely Heresy - October 20, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- There are 18 states, as columnist Mark Shields recently pointed out to me, that have gone Democratic in each of the last five presidential elections. Of...
- Gates' Green Revolution for Africa - October 15, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- When you are Bill Gates -- directing a foundation with assets larger than the GDP of 104 countries -- your enthusiasms get amplified on a global scale. Six...
- The Limits of Star Power - October 13, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's Nobel Prize for climate change -- the Nobel committee credited him with "creating a new climate" -- was useful in at least one...
- Creigh Deeds vs. 'What's Going On in Washington' - October 10, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Creigh Deeds, the Democrat running for governor of Virginia, may not be much of a candidate, but he has a future as a political commentator. During a...
- A Nobel Prize for Good Intentions? - Washington Post - October 8, 2009
- Immigration and Political Suicide - October 6, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Mel Martinez's recent resignation from the United States Senate was for personal and family reasons. But the departure of the Republican Party's most...
- Leaving Israel With No Choice? - October 1, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- On June 7, 1981, Israeli F-15s and F-16s took off for the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq, after the pilots were emotionally briefed that "The alternative...
- Decision Time for Obama - September 29, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- As President Obama approaches a decision on the way forward in Afghanistan -- the most historically consequential choice of his presidency so far --...
- All About Obama - Washington Post - September 25, 2009
- I've refrained from commenting on President Obama's address to the United Nations General Assembly because the speech made me angry. And most postings -- or letters, or...