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- Fallacies on Abortion Coverage - November 18, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Let's dispense with three fallacies swirling about the question of abortion coverage in health care reform. Two are being peddled by anti-abortion forces....
- Health Scare Tactics - November 11, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- I'm hoping, for your sake, that you didn't spend your Saturday night as I did: watching the House debate health care reform on C-SPAN. Pathetic, I know....
- Empty Harbingers in Virginia & New Jersey - November 4, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Advice to readers about the coming orgy of analysis about the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial elections: Ignore it. Disquisitions on The Meaning of...
- Of Laureates and Laundry - October 28, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- "I bet he wasn't folding laundry." Carol Greider, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine, on what she was doing at 5 a.m. when the big call came, and...
- 'Balloon Boy' as a Metaphor - October 21, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- In the matter of Falcon Heene, the 6-year-old boy who stashed himself -- or was stashed by his parents -- in the attic while a frantic world thought he was...
- Obama's Dumb War on FOX News - Washington Post - October 20, 2009
- There's only one thing dumber than picking a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel -- picking a fight with people who don't even have to buy ink. The Obama...
- First, Or Just Long Overdue - October 14, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- My initial reaction to the news that a woman had won the Nobel Prize in economics for the first time was simple: Great! My second reaction was a bit more...
- This is Ridiculous -- Embarrassing, Even - Washington Post - October 9, 2009
- Sit Around and Wait - October 7, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Miriam Sapiro was nominated to be deputy U.S. trade representative in April. The Senate Finance Committee voted -- unanimously -- to confirm her in...
- When Ron Wyden Talks... - September 16, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- With apologies to E.F. Hutton, when Ron Wyden talks about health care reform, people should listen. When Ron Wyden balks at a Democratic health care reform...
- Capps' Sensitive Approach - September 9, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Item: "President Obama and top Democratic congressional leaders are pushing hard for health care bills that would result in federal government funding of...
- Bob McDonnell's Macaca Moment - September 2, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Bob McDonnell, the Republican candidate for governor of Virginia, didn't really mean it when he equated homosexuality with drug abuse and pornography as...
- Chuck Grassley's Legacy? - August 26, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The last, faint hope for truly bipartisan health reform rests with Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley -- and faint may be overstating the prognosis. The 75-year-old...
- Change We Can't Believe In? - August 12, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Candidate Barack Obama offered a lofty vision of how his White House would operate. When the details of health reform were being hammered out, he vowed,...
- Avoiding the Tough Calls - August 5, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Does President Obama care more about passing health care reform that truly gets costs under control or getting re-elected? Does he care more about getting...
- 'Judicial Activism' on Campaign Finance Law - August 3, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said last week that he would vote against confirming Sonia Sotomayor to the...
- A Path to a Health Care Bill - July 29, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- If only Democrats and Republicans could get together and produce a health care bill that would expand coverage and control costs. But wait -- there is such...
- The F-22 Model for Medicare - July 22, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- If you're interested in how to get health care costs under control, the case of the F-22 offers an instructive example. Huh, you say? What does a fighter...
- A 'Precedent' Worth Recalling - July 15, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The hardest question in the confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor is one the nominee can't answer. Not because she doesn't know the law or can't offer...
- Bailout, Palin-Style - July 5, 2009
- Note to soon-to-be-former Gov. Sarah Palin: Big girls don't quit. Just ask Hillary Clinton. Crying -- or at least misting up a little -- you can get away with these...
- Jenny Sanford, Role Model - July 1, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Finally, a new model for the wronged political spouse. It's about time. South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's let-it-all-hang-out news conference was a...
- A Tail Wags The Dog on Health Reform - Washington Post - June 27, 2009
- The health-care debate is focused these days way too much on the tail and not nearly enough on the rest of the dog. The disappointing result could be a stubby little...
- Deja Vu on Health Care? Maybe Not - June 24, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Congressional Democrats warn that the president's ambitious plans to overhaul the nation's health care system may be in danger. Sensing political...
- For Sotomayor, a Fine Line in New Haven - June 10, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The rap on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's ruling in the New Haven firefighters case is that she supposedly looked at the race of the parties and...
- The Radical Who Isn't - June 3, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- If Sonia Sotomayor is a radical activist eager to push the law leftward or to rule according to personal whims rather than constitutional commands, she's...
- Not Buying Obama's Sotomayor Defense - Washington Post - May 31, 2009
- Souter with a Salsa Beat - May 27, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The job, in a sense, was Sonia Sotomayor's to lose -- even though she was the only one of the four candidates President Obama interviewed for the Supreme...
- Tank, The Pet Accompli - May 20, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The puppy ate my column. Not literally, although heaven knows he'd have done that, too. His tastes aren't terribly discriminating, but he does have a...
- Wanted: Justices From Venus - May 13, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- "It contributes to the end of the days when women, at least half the talent pool in our society, appear in high places only as one-at-a-time...
- Obama's Nuanced Understanding of Judges - May 6, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Should the judge be an umpire or an empathizer? Chief Justice John Roberts memorably likened the judge to a baseball umpire, dispassionately applying...
- 'Family-Friendly,' White House-Style - April 29, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- I'm writing a Mother's Day column early this year -- not exactly the one I intended. The column I was planning began: Why is this Mother's Day different...
- The Party Is Over - April 27, 2009
- The first 100 days of a presidency are like the opening chapter of an unfinished novel. It will be possible, by the end, to look back and see the foreshadowing of...
- Palin's Personal Choice - April 20, 2009
- I'd like to thank Sarah Palin for her bravery in explaining the importance of a woman's right to choose. Even braver, the Alaska governor made her eloquent case for...
- Where's the Backbone? - April 15, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- When will President Obama fight, and when will he fold? That's not entirely clear -- and I'm beginning to worry that there may be a little too much...
- Hypocrisy of a Fillibuster - April 8, 2009
- Of course, my Bolton parallel is intentionally provocative. I happen to know both Bolton, back to his days in the Reagan Justice Department, and Johnsen, back to...
- Parenting: One Byte at a Time - April 1, 2009
- A recent study by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy found that 22 percent of teen girls and 18 percent of boys had sent or posted online...
- Health Care's Five Hard Pieces - March 22, 2009
- Here are Five Hard Pieces on the way to getting health care done this year: Piece One: Should there be a public insurance option? This is a question of...
- Grin and Bear the Bonuses - March 18, 2009
- I get the political fix in which President Obama finds himself. The sums are staggering -- if not to Wall Street, then to everyone else who's ever worked for a...
- What Left Turn? - March 11, 2009
- A "broken promise ... more like occupation-lite," charged the anti-war group Code Pink. On the legal issues entwined in the war on terror, Obama is, again...
- A Daring Test Case for Marriage - March 4, 2009
- Obama's words are about to be put to the test. A lawsuit filed in federal court in Boston Tuesday challenges the constitutionality of the act when it comes to federal...