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- An Audience of One - November 14, 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 8, 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 31, 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 10, 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 6, 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 26, 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 19, 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 15, 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 5, 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 29, 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 22, 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 - August 1, 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 25, 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 21, 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 11, 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 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...