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- This is How Congress Works - July 4, 2009
- LOS ANGELES -- There is a story about Rep. Henry Waxman during hearings on steroid use in baseball that some say is apocryphal. But I believe it -- and we have been...
- Happy Days Will Be Here Again - June 30, 2009
- LOS ANGELES -- The word "recession" became part of my vocabulary in 1958, when I dropped out of college to look for a job. It was a tough year, particularly if your...
- Why Is Obama So Popular? - June 20, 2009
- LOS ANGELES -- The New York Times and CBS News headlined and broadcast last week that their polling indicated Americans have more confidence in President Obama than they...
- Sotomayor Looks Like One of Us - June 13, 2009
- JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- Growing up in Jersey City in the late 1950s, I thought the United States was an Italian country governed by the Irish. So it was a rather pleasant...
- What to Do With Enemy Prisoners? - June 6, 2009
- BERLIN -- On Sept. 14, 1948, Capt. Kenneth Slaker of Lincoln, Neb., was making his sixth flight as a Berlin Airlift pilot, bringing food and fuel to the World War II...
- The Late, Great State of California - May 31, 2009
- LOS ANGELES -- It's just another day in paradise. Sunny, 75 degrees. Also, this news from the morning papers around California last Friday: L.A. CANCELS MOST SUMMER...
- To the Lucky Class of 2009 - May 16, 2009
- LOS ANGELES -- Another year, another graduation. But, of course, this is not just another year. For the graduates themselves, it is one of the most important times of...
- What is the American Way of Life? - May 13, 2009
- NEW YORK -- This is how they got young men into the military in Honduras in the 1980s: They would show Kung Fu movies in local theaters and then surround the building...
- The Last Days of Pakistan? - May 5, 2009
- NEW YORK -- Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord that the United States and India have plans to seize Pakistan's nuclear weapons. I, for one, was badly shaken on...
- Let's Mess with Texas - April 25, 2009
- DALLAS -- Rush Limbaugh, the entertainer, announced the other day that he was moving out of New York City because New York Gov. David Paterson proposed higher state...
- Women and Islam - April 18, 2009
- LOS ANGELES -- As many teachers of history and journalism do, I show my students "The Battle of Algiers," not because it is one of the great films, which it is, but...
- Obama Knows America is Different - April 11, 2009
- Is this a great country or what?More on that later. But first I checked "The Gene Pool," which is a Washington Post online blog by Gene Weingarten, who posts provocative...
- Hearts and Minds -- and the Grim Reaper - March 28, 2009
- I would expand on that. The new president did not wallow in the politics of blaming inherited problems and conundrums on his incompetent predecessor. The Obama...
- The Crisis Scorecard: Winners and Losers - March 24, 2009
- In Congress, the best example of bad times ahead is Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, who is in headline trouble because he was supposed to know what he was doing....
- The Coming Health Care Debate - March 14, 2009
- "I remember my own mother giving me a lecture once when she had to wait in Germany two weeks for the neighboring hospital to have a bed. And I said, 'Oh, I can make a...
- Which Way is Right for the Right? - March 7, 2009
- Johnathan Krohn, a talented speaker who could start a religion if he wanted to, defined the Republican Party as a shell and conservatism as the filling -- and added,...
- Class Warfare: Bring It On! - February 28, 2009
- "The era of big government is back, and Democrats are asking you to pay for it," said a more important Ohio congressman, John Boehner, the leader of the Republican...
- O, Democracy: A Coast-To-Coast Mess - February 21, 2009
- The voters? C'mon. Bloomberg the talented billionaire, perhaps the most self-financed candidate in the history of the Republic, pays his own way and governs as he...
- Why Are We In Afghanistan? - February 7, 2009
- "I was not allowed to leave without going from bed to bed. Forty beds. At each one, stumps of arms or legs would be thrust at me, or dressings would be lifted away to...
- The Republican Idiocy - January 31, 2009
- "There are any number of reasons for the Republican Party's defeat on Nov. 4. But high on the list is the fact that the party lost the battle for brains. Barack Obama...
- A Change Toward Science for the Better - January 24, 2009
- The 44th president obviously made a decision to project the number and complexity of the challenges he and we, the people, are facing these days, beginning with a fading...
- The 9/11 Presidency - January 17, 2009
- All of that is true and defines Bush's failures. He was too willing to make tough decisions, and the problem was what was in his mind, or rather what was not in his...
- Leon Panetta: Speaking Truth to Power - January 10, 2009
- In September of 1994, I was interviewing President Bill Clinton, thinking we might ramble on for hours as we had in the past. The Clinton White House was like that....
- President Obama: The Real Deal? - January 3, 2009
- "I've worked some with him, and as far as I can tell, he's the real deal," she said. "He is what he says he is."In politics, that is saying a lot. But will that be true...
- A Time for Renewal - December 26, 2008
- "2. Economic Meltdown; 3. Oil Prices; 4. Iraq; 5. Beijing Olympics; 6. Chinese Earthquake; 8. Mumbai Terrorism; 10. Russia-Georgia War."No. 1, of course, was the best...
- Rod 'I Want The Money!' Just Couldn't Wait - December 13, 2008
- Never missing a chance to rough up a Democrat, the News played my piece across the bottom of Page One. So, that year Frankie gave the money to St. Mary's Hospital and...
- Coming Home to America - December 6, 2008
- There was a wonderful example of that written by Hector Tobar, a Los Angeles Times correspondent returning home after seven years covering and living in Latin America....
- A New Era of Bipartisanship? - November 29, 2008
- I concluded then that: "My own feeling is that only a strong president with a mandate for governing through a universal crisis -- a necessary war or devastating climate...
- The Republicans Will Rise Again - November 25, 2008
- Or, as Mort Kondracke, the executive editor of Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper, put it:"How can the Republican Party rebound? The first step would be to quit...
- The Obama Transition - November 8, 2008
- The quote is from the introduction of a new book by a remarkable historian (and former political operative), Harold Holzer, who has written more than 30 books on...
- The Fifth 'Pivot Point' Election - November 1, 2008
- In Amar's reading, history was changed and the United States was headed in new directions by the elections of 1800, 1860, 1932 and either 1968 or 1980, depending on...
- I Hear America Singing - October 25, 2008
- Of course, we are in burst-bubble trouble, so there is not enough work for singing carpenters and masons. And things are tough for Joe the Plumber, too. Dare I say that...
- The Times They are A' Changing - Again - October 18, 2008
- It has been a strange and wild and wonderful campaign. It began, back in 2007, with a compressed primary campaign that most of us thought would produce both Republican...
- The Five Weeks of Sarah Palin - October 4, 2008
- Watching her at what many said was her best, I was embarrassed. As a candidate for national office, Sarah Palin is an embarrassment to the nation. She is an...
- Panic on the Potomac - September 27, 2008
- 2. "The legislative process is sometimes not very pretty." This came in his 60-second appearance outside the White House on Friday. Neither, sir, are you. This week has...
- WWRD... What Would Roosevelt Do? - September 20, 2008
- So, this is the sum of what I think is my knowledge, most of it political:In real capitalism, like the game of Monopoly, one person would eventually end up with all the...
- The Year of Campaign Lying - September 15, 2008
- I hate to break bad news, but we are not winning in Iraq. We are, hopefully and thankfully, doing a little better, relatively. But if you go back a year, or two years,...
- Is Obama Already President? - September 6, 2008
- Romney was a hoot. My favorite. He must hate the media more than most of those who were in St. Paul, because he spoke as if he has not read or noticed anything for...
- Who is Prepared to be President? Nobody - August 30, 2008
- The Kennedy book was published during the presidency of Bill Clinton, so now 43 men know. Obama, as I said, is obviously not one of them. But in praise of his acceptance...
- A Vote for Elitism - August 23, 2008
- Not bad. But "elitism": bad. The "ism" word has evolved over centuries to mean, according to the same dictionary: "The belief that certain persons or members of certain...