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- Party On! The Revolt of the Old - February 9, 2010
- LOS ANGELES -- My favorite Tea Party guy is Merle Firestone from Rainbow, Miss., who left home at 4 a.m. last Saturday morning to drive to Nashville. He left a note on...
- Edmund Burke and Obama 2.0 - January 29, 2010
- LOS ANGELES -- First the news: Barack Obama is a hell of a speaker. His first State of the Union message will not change history, but it was a skillful balancing act...
- Who is That Masked Man? - January 25, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- When Barack Obama of Illinois first walked into the Capitol of the United States as a senator-elect in 2004, he was greeted with the usual bowing and...
- Why We're in Haiti -- Because We're Americans - January 18, 2010
- PHILADELPHIA -- In February of 1961, President Kennedy asked this question of Jawaharlal Nehru, the prime minister of India: "What do you think of the idea of our Peace...
- Why You're Own Doctor - January 11, 2010
- DENVER -- All of your adult life it seems you are told that you are your own doctor. You don't believe that, or perhaps, just don't think about it, until there...
- Harry Reid: The Dealer from Nevada - December 27, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Harry Reid, you may have noticed, is not a very colorful fellow. Among the interesting things you can say about him is that he is the first Capitol police...
- Is Obama a B+ President? - December 21, 2009
- LOS ANGELES -- It's the time of year when college instructors grade papers. Having done this for more than 10 years at the Annenberg School for Communication and...
- We, the People, Are Not at War - December 14, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- So, our extraordinarily rational and articulate president went to Norway to receive the Nobel Peace Prize and identified himself as a wartime...
- Lost in Afghanistan - December 4, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama says a lot of smart things. During his campaign last year, in his second debate with Sen. John McCain, in Nashville, he closed by saying: "We...
- The Late, Great State of California - November 27, 2009
- LOS ANGELES -- California, contrary to popular opinion, is not broke. It's only crazy, mean and at war with itself. You may have noticed that the governor and...
- The United States -- Decline and Fall? - November 23, 2009
- LOS ANGELES -- It has become fashionable on both the left and the right to compare the United States to ancient Rome. Decline and fall: We are a militaristic power...
- An Audience of One - November 13, 2009
- LOS ANGELES -- Most of what you read, see and hear about Afghanistan is not meant for you. The words, optimistic and pessimistic, right and wrong, all the leaks, all the...
- Conservatives Poised to Repeat History - November 7, 2009
- LOS ANGELES -- Was George Santayana right when he said that those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it? Well, perhaps the Republican Party can test that...
- Why Canadians are Laughing at Us - October 30, 2009
- AUSTIN, Texas -- A guy walks up to you in a bar here and asks, "Are you a Republican, conservative or independent?" You can't tell if he's kidding. After all, this is...
- Better Jaw-Jaw Than War-War - October 9, 2009
- LOS ANGELES -- Obviously, the world, or at least a heck of a lot of foreigners, love Barack Obama. The Nobel Peace Prize is an impressive, if surprising, symbol of...
- Trust Your Instincts, Mr. President - October 5, 2009
- LOS ANGELES -- We do not pay the president by the hour and, I understand, he has some pretty good telecommuting equipment. So if he wants to take a 20-hour trip to...
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Flip-Floppers - September 25, 2009
- LOS ANGELES -- President Obama told us he was going to walk tall on Afghanistan. Now there are hints he might flip-flop on that one. I hope so. "I'm going to take a very...
- It's Not All Racism - September 18, 2009
- LOS ANGELES -- Jimmy Carter once promised he would never lie to us. But he has been known to exaggerate a bit. I think he did that in proclaiming that opposition to...
- The New Hessians and American Decline - September 14, 2009
- LOS ANGELES -- If you grew up in New Jersey, you learned a lot about the Hessians, the German soldiers hired by the British to put down the American Revolution. Most...
- Why We Need Health Care Reform - September 4, 2009
- LOS ANGELES -- The United States ranks first in the world in health care, at least if you only count how much we spend on health care. We spend 15.3 percent of our gross...
- Ted Kennedy: A Man in Full - August 28, 2009
- The last time I saw Ted Kennedy he was, in Tom Wolfe's phrase, "A man in full." It was Labor Day 2007, on Cape Cod, and he was singing and laughing hugely through one of...
- America: A Lot Different, A Lot Better? - August 21, 2009
- LOS ANGELES -- A year ago, my wife and I went to her physician's office here and the doctor began: "So, I understand you to want to talk about end-of-life...
- Bring On That Socialism - July 31, 2009
- NEW YORK -- The headline of the Gallup Poll released last Friday was: "Seniors Most Skeptical of Healthcare Reform -- More seniors think reform law would be harmful, not...
- Health Care: A Compact Between Generations - July 24, 2009
- LOS ANGELES -- After I turned 40, I wrote a piece for The New York Times Magazine called "Breaking Down." It began with a description of me doing push-ups and collapsing...
- In Washington, the Law is an Ass - July 20, 2009
- LOS ANGELES -- There was a seal of the Senate of the United States on the marble wall behind the chairman's seat in the hearing room last week where the Senate Committee...
- McNamara: The Smartest Fool - July 10, 2009
- LOS ANGELES -- In the military, after action or a mission, officers are required to file "Lessons Learned" reports, basically reviewing what worked and what did not....
- This is How Congress Works - July 3, 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 29, 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 19, 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 12, 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 5, 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...
- To the Lucky Class of 2009 - May 15, 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 12, 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 4, 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 24, 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 17, 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 10, 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 27, 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 23, 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 13, 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...