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- Sometimes a Great Nation - January 21, 2009
- It would be nice to have just the right words to sum up what happened Tuesday. As for so many in this frigid city, le mot juste is just beyond reach. This is why we...
- The Importance of Not Being Earnest - January 16, 2009
- David Denby, The New Yorker film critic, has written a book decrying our old bad habits: "Snark: It's Mean, It's Personal, and It's Ruining Our Conversation." I...
- Pink Slips Du Jour - January 14, 2009
- Now what? The young woman has some consulting work "kind of lined up." Her severance package is too high to qualify for unemployment, and she's not sure how...
- Is It Miller Time? - January 9, 2009
- Before we can fix the economy, health care, Social Security, education and other problems, we have to rethink some of our most sacrosanct premises. Here's a...
- Vying for the GOP - January 7, 2009
- Say what? In a race where Steele's conservative bona fides are already held in suspicion, did his admission unseal any deal? Can True Conservatives trust a man who...
- Don't Read 'Em... and Weep - January 2, 2009
- It's over. Done. The old media are no more. We are all new media now. All journalists, we are also the news. We are essentially a nation of news-mongering newsies making...
- Denounce and Desist - December 31, 2008
- In fact, I categorically denounce any person or statement (or calendar) that disparages or causes distress to any living creature on this great planet or that serves to...
- A Tale of Two Women - December 19, 2008
- There can be little debate that Palin, as a governor and former mayor, has the superior political resume. More to the point, she was duly elected to both of those...
- Camelot-Come-Lately - December 17, 2008
- Kennedy's likely appointment to fill the seat being vacated should Hillary Clinton be confirmed as secretary of state is the sort of fait accompli Americans claim to...
- Nightmare on Facebook - December 12, 2008
- The photo popped up on Facebook for a couple of hours before being removed . . . too late. The moment was captured and the rest was instant and persistent history. On...
- Ink by the Barrel, Graft by the Pound - December 10, 2008
- With the news that Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff, John Harris, were arrested on federal corruption charges -- and that Tribune was filing for...
- Them Oogedy-Boogedy Blues - December 5, 2008
- Not so bad, really, but not so good either. Like most things religious and political, it's a matter of taste and timing. (See Ecclesiastes 3:1).First, to the origins....
- Tweeting the Twitterati - December 3, 2008
- For those who still commune by glance and gesture, "to twitter" roughly means to express an abbreviated thought or observation in real time to a live, self-selecting...
- Change Can Be Slow - November 28, 2008
- Setting aside the obvious -- complete sentences, free of words yet to be discovered -- he is uniquely positioned to change the world on multiple levels.As Jeff Gedmin,...
- Bailing Out Ignorance - November 26, 2008
- Only 0.8 percent of all test-takers scored an "A."America's report card may come as little surprise to fans of Jay Leno's man-on-the-street interviews, which reveal that...
- The Word for Freedom - November 21, 2008
- The Cold War that prompted the creation of Radio Free Europe may have ended. And The Wall did come tumbling down. But the voice of liberty still travels over the...
- A Summers Break - November 14, 2008
- His comments, though not completely without scientific basis, unleashed a millennium worth of female scorn, making Hell a suddenly attractive destination for the...
- You Can't Get There From Here - November 12, 2008
- Columns will survive or not as the market dictates, but the blistering response to a dozen or so fellow turncoats reveals something deeply wrong with the conservative...
- Postscript - November 7, 2008
- "If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our...
- Not the Best of Times, but Hardly the Worst - November 5, 2008
- "On a single day in France, 52 heads rolled at the guillotine -- numbed, accused innocents, impoverished, starved, beyond hope," she writes in an e-mail. "They went to...
- The Final Hours - October 31, 2008
- Whether the story is true is still unknown, but it didn't take long for the right-wing blogosphere to embrace it. How delicious for them, if true, that her...
- The Other Bush Legacy - October 29, 2008
- The purpose of Monday's meeting, which included lunch and a curator-led tour of the second-floor residence, was to allow the First Lady's potential chroniclers access to...
- Maverick's Tragic Flaw - October 24, 2008
- The adviser thought a moment and replied: "No, I don't know."Blame the sycamore tree.McCain had met Palin only once -- in February, at the governor's convention in...
- It's Not the Economy, It's the Ugliness - October 22, 2008
- But polls only reflect what people say they think, not what they really think.Which is to say, we have both an election and a shadow election in progress. The latter, in...
- The Buckley Son Rises - and Runs - October 17, 2008
- Let us proceed, gingerly.I am not a passive bystander to these events. Buckley is a friend, as are other members of his family, especially Uncle Reid, with whom I have...
- Mainstream Media Look for Love - October 15, 2008
- These were some of the questions addressed by panelists at a Time Warner media summit here this week -- "Politics 2008: The Media Conference for the Election of the...
- To Appalachia With... Respect - October 10, 2008
- Sarah Palin might enjoy it as well. Described by one blurber as "an Appalachian retelling of Macbeth," the story features a strong woman who hunts rattlesnakes with an...
- Put the Gloves Back On - October 8, 2008
- In Colorado a few days ago, she told fans that Obama pals around with terrorists. Later in Clearwater, Fla., resplendent in white against a backdrop of red, white and...
- Sarah Palin's Bridge to Somewhere - October 4, 2008
- So, yes, I am relieved. I had been concerned that she would stumble badly and humiliate herself. No fair-minded person wanted that. In fact, she managed to control the...
- Speak Correctly - or Build a Big Bunker - October 1, 2008
- The fierce reaction to my column has been both bracing and enlightening. After 20 years of column writing, I'm familiar with angry mail. But the past few days have...
- The Palin Problem - September 26, 2008
- Some of the passionately feminist critics of Palin who attacked her personally deserved some of the backlash they received. But circumstances have changed since...
- Battered by Change, Iraq May Prefer Sameness - September 24, 2008
- Askari, who serves on parliament's foreign relations committee, has been outspoken in his criticism of the U.S. presence in Iraq. Nonetheless, this week he took a strong...
- Time to Worry - September 19, 2008
- Confession: I love Barack Obama and I love Sarah Palin -- both for different reasons. They both also scare me to death. I love Obama for his style, grace, intellect...
- Charles Dickens Hearts David Zucker - September 17, 2008
- The release of both films has been timed for maximum impact on the coming election. No matter who wins this cultural crossfire, Zucker's movie is revolutionary. He...
- Giants Among the Lilliputians - September 12, 2008
- To hear their stories, as recounted by Vice Admiral Edwin R. "Rudy" Kohn, Camden resident and retired deputy commander of the Pacific Fleet, against the backdrop of...
- Palin Obliterates the Template - USA Today - September 11, 2008
- Everyone Should Take It Down a Notch - September 10, 2008
- The two parties are both more and less than that reduction, of course, but this is approximately how each side now views the other. Barack Obama is an elitist...
- Palin's Palliative - September 5, 2008
- Thus, much of the off-mic talk in St. Paul the past few days centered on whether she was up to the fight. Would she be able to make it through? Would she crumble?...
- Palin the Impaled - September 3, 2008
- To say that this convention has gotten off to a jaw-dropping start would not be hyperbolic. While Democrats chant, "Yes we can," Republicans have been lip-syncing,...
- The Billification of Barack Obama - August 29, 2008
- And Michelle and Hillary did smile. But is it over? Is the pope pro-choice? Whatever the Clintons say or do, it is never -- ever -- for the benefit only...