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- Zahra! - June 17, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- There's a "new" old name suddenly in circulation that is both filled with ancient history and ripe with a revolutionary spirit for today's game-changing...
- Something Rotten in America - June 14, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- One thing we can conclude from David Letterman's bad jokes about Sarah Palin: He hasn't flown commercial in a while. Letterman's "slutty flight attendant"...
- The GOP's Sarah Problem - June 10, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska and GOP "It" girl, can warm up the Republican base like a hot toddy in a duck blind. But further inside the party...
- Obama's Muslim Campaign - June 7, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- If it ain't broke, the saying goes, don't fix it. And so it was that the Muslim world got to hear the 2009 version of Barack Obama's 2004 Democratic...
- Carnival of the Fire-Breathers - June 3, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Prior to recent events, I intended to write about the GOP's message problem with the headline: "Shoot the Messenger." Sunday's murder of abortion doctor...
- Be Chill Ye Bleating Pundits - May 31, 2009
- First came the breaking-news e-mail alert: President Obama would appoint Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. Within minutes, a dozen other e-mails tumbled through...
- The Aphorism Drive - May 27, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Freud recognized that human beings have a sex drive and even a death drive. Is it possible that we also have an aphorism drive? We do seem attracted to pat...
- Mars and Venus Collide - May 23, 2009
- Listening to President Obama and former Vice President Cheney give their respective national security speeches Thursday put me in mind of John Gray, author of "Men Are...
- GOP Disorder: Purge or Binge? - May 20, 2009
- It's not yet clear how the one-armed midget demographic is shaping up, but everybody else seems to be bailing on the GOP. Begging the forgiveness of one-armed midgets,...
- Tortuing Lawyers - May 17, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It is supremely surreal to find oneself sipping sparkling water in a sunny hotel courtyard, dispassionately discussing the legalities of torture. Yet,...
- Why Is That Man Smiling? - May 13, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- There's nothing un-funnier than Saturday night's jokes reviewed by the caffeinated light of Monday morning. Which is why we probably shouldn't quarterback...
- Evolving Faith - May 10, 2009
- KEY WEST, Fla. -- If only William Jennings Bryan had known Francis Collins. Maybe Bryan, who died just five days after leading the prosecution in the Scopes monkey...
- Fear of Flying - May 6, 2009
- IN THE MIAMI AIRPORT -- Against the advice our vice president, I have braved the germ-infested world, forced into transit by prior commitments and surrounded by...
- Hate Crimes and Misdenomers - May 3, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Once a cause such as hate crime legislation becomes associated with something as emotionally devastating as the 1998 savage murder of Matthew Shepard, it...
- Obama Should Bow Out From "Our Lady" - April 29, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Here on planet "What About Me," principled people are so rare as to be oddities. Thus, it was a head-swiveling moment Monday when former Vatican Ambassador...
- Torture By Any Other Name - April 26, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Several years ago, I asked a veteran journalist for advice. "I'm trying to figure out if I have an ethical conflict," I began. "If you have to ask, you...
- Diversity as the New Patriotism - April 19, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Racial and ethnic diversity is the key to happiness, success in the global marketplace and, not least, an interesting life. So we are told in a batch of...
- Time to Retire the Hakapik - April 15, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It isn't every day that one's very own hakapik arrives in the mail. It is probably reasonable to assume that I'm the only person...
- How Do You Say 'Faux Pas' in Austrian? - April 12, 2009
- Both of which, in fact, George W. Bush did while president. The left went wild over les faux pas du George. Now, it seems, it's the right's turn to display equal...
- Obama's Unmacho Diplomacy - April 8, 2009
- Verily, spoken like men. What they're really asking is: Did Obama do justice to the fire hydrant? Call me a mother of boys. Or call Freud, if you must. But...
- Christians at the Gate - April 5, 2009
- The older generation represented by such icons as James Dobson, who recently retired as head of Focus on the Family, has compromised too much, according to a...
- Crisis Fatigue - April 1, 2009
- The market's up! The Dow plunges! Obama fired the GM CEO! Greta's husband helped Palin!! OMG, Obama's taking 500 people to Europe and Merkel doesn't like his new deal...
- A Biblical Political Move - March 29, 2009
- No one ever said the multimillionaire isn't idiosyncratic. In a rare interview Thursday, Ahmanson shared some of his thoughts about why he switched parties. In...
- Welcome to the Apostasy, Lassie - March 25, 2009
- McCain, just 24, is one smart cookie. In a matter of weeks, she has created a brand, presenting herself as a fresh face of her daddy's party and a voice for young...
- Our Foundering Father - March 22, 2009
- That cliche is awfully busy these days. Most presidents doubtless have to pinch themselves for a while after arriving at the White House. The campaign over, Mr....
- Never Mind the Boys - March 18, 2009
- There's little profit in criticizing a move to make life better for the fairer sex. Still, one does have to suppress a chortle as we pretend that the First Father's...
- Weird New Media World - March 15, 2009
- There is surely room for media criticism, and a few bad actors in recent years have badly frayed public trust. And, yes, some newspapers are more liberal than their...
- Behind the Cell Curve - March 12, 2009
- Unfortunately, the stem cell debate has been characterized as a conflict between science (as though science is always right) and religious "kooks" (as though...
- Nobody Knows the Troubles We'll See - March 8, 2009
- It's all a gamble. The Republican attempts to "starve the beast" -- slash taxes and force government spending cuts -- didn't work because spending never got cut. So...
- Rush to the Wrong Choice - March 4, 2009
- Oh wait, that's right, Barack Obama is the messiah. I get confused sometimes, what with so much deification going on. Limbaugh's 85-minute speech at last weekend's...
- Where's Bobby? - March 1, 2009
- I know Bobby Jindal, and that guy wasn't Bobby Jindal. The real Jindal is the intellectual equivalent of a nuclear power plant. The real Jindal has actually...
- Wrong Cartoon, Wrong Reaction - February 25, 2009
- If you don't get it, there's a good reason. It was a bad cartoon. It didn't work. The connection between the two events simply wasn't organic enough to evoke the...
- Spend Now, Or Pay Later - February 22, 2009
- Obama learned about J.V. Martin, built in 1896, from Ferillo's 2005 documentary, "Corridor of Shame," about crumbling schools along South Carolina's I-95 corridor....
- Be Calm and Prosper - February 18, 2009
- "What does catastrophe look like?" I asked. With characteristic calm, Obama described what happened in Japan in the 1990s, when core problems in the banking...
- Snap, Crackle, Pot - February 13, 2009
- The silliness of our laws -- and the hypocrisy of our selective attitudes toward mood enhancers -- needs no further elaboration. Even so, things are getting sillier...
- So Far, Amateur Hour - February 11, 2009
- Absent is maturity -- that grown-up quality of leadership that is palpable when the real deal enters a room. There's a reason why elders are respected. They have...
- Good Work, No Pay - February 6, 2009
- If you're thinking you might find yourself in some remote hollow of, say, South Sudan or Kyrgyzstan, you might be right. But you'd be helping save the world, so hang...
- From Beijing to Bongs - February 4, 2009
- As everyone knows by now, Phelps was photographed smoking from an Olympic-sized bong during a University of South Carolina party last November. As all fallen heroes...
- President Barack W. Obama - January 30, 2009
- Let's roll the tape. "I won. I will trump you on that." That's Barack Obama a few days ago, according to The Associated Press, speaking to Senate Minority Whip...
- Do Unto Others - January 23, 2009
- I mention his middle name only because Chief Justice John Roberts did during this week's swearing-in ceremony, a proper time for proper names. It was wholly karmic...