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- Now is Not the Time to Kill Detroit - December 16, 2008
- It may be that General Motors, Chrysler and Ford are lumbering, Jurassic beasts that deserve their looming extinction. But only a free-market fundamentalist, a...
- More Answers Needed Now - December 12, 2008
- The scandal involves Obama only in the most tangential way, as far as anyone knows, and actually seems to cast him in a favorable light. But the longer he leaves...
- A Whitewash for Blackwater? - December 9, 2008
- The indictment, charging voluntary manslaughter and weapons violations, demonstrates that those who engage "in unprovoked attacks will be held accountable," Assistant...
- Bush Revises His History - December 5, 2008
- Fellow sufferers from Bush Derangement Syndrome, mind your blood pressure. Just seven more weeks. Hang in there, because there are two more snippets from the...
- Terrorists Don't Wait - December 2, 2008
- The Bush administration takes the position that all terrorism is evil, and that therefore all terrorists are evil. That black-and-white view is obviously correct...
- Obama Will Create a More Perfect Union - November 27, 2008
- Easy for you to say, many people would respond, and they'd have a point. I've been as mesmerized and freaked-out as anyone watching the stock market lose nearly half its...
- We're a Nation Adrift Until January 20 - November 25, 2008
- A couple of hours later, the other president, Barack Obama, presented his new high-powered economic team. Obama made a point of saying that the prospective...
- The Lobbyist Economy - November 21, 2008
- If not, well, the Big Three execs can always come back to town -- by more modest means of transport, one hopes. If there's anything beneficial in this...
- Closing Guantanamo Will Heal Our Soul - November 18, 2008
- Amid the excitement of the election and the urgency of the economic crisis, it has been easy to lose sight of the terrorism-related "issues" that defined George W....
- Obama's Victory Awful for Comedians - November 14, 2008
- It was just a quick bit in which he imagined Obama, faced with his first international crisis, telling his advisers he couldn't be interrupted because he was busy...
- No Other Way To Spin It. Tuesday Was a GOP Disaster - November 11, 2008
- What we're hearing instead from Republican politicians, pollsters and pundits is reassurance that the United States is a "center-right nation" with an innate distrust...
- Stepping Into the Sunshine - November 6, 2008
- I did lose it, minutes before the television networks projected that Barack Obama would be the 44th president of the United States, when I called my parents in...
- A New Kind of Pride - November 4, 2008
- I'm being facetious but not unserious. In my gut, I know there's a chance that the first African-American to make a serious run for the presidency will lose. But...
- Obama Campaign Instills New Pride - Detroit News - November 4, 2008
- Northern Star Rising - October 31, 2008
- At this point, only McCain's most loyal lieutenants could have been surprised when Palin told ABC's Elizabeth Vargas that she's already looking beyond Tuesday's...
- McCain, Running on Empty - October 28, 2008
- The Republicans don't even try to formulate an answer, and with Obama's lead growing by the day, it's hard to imagine what might turn things around. An "October...
- Last Chapter of a Storybook Campaign - October 24, 2008
- Last week in Los Angeles, I met a lawyer who said her husband has had to set strict limits on the amount of time she spends each day watching cable news and...
- The Power of Powell's Rebuke - October 21, 2008
- Powell told Tom Brokaw that he still believes that war was the right course of action, based on what he and other officials knew -- or thought they knew -- at the...
- McCain's Bare Cupboard - October 17, 2008
- But I think McCain lost ground in the debates mainly because of his threadbare ideas and solutions. People didn't hear John McCain the brave iconoclast; they heard...
- The GOP Is a Mess and a Fraud - October 14, 2008
- It's pathetic to hear right-wing talk radio blowhards try to associate Barack Obama with "radical" or "socialist" views when a Republican administration is tossing...
- How Will Obama, McCain Stop the Free Fall? - October 10, 2008
- So here's a question I'd like to ask Barack Obama and John McCain: Is the United States destined to look and feel increasingly like a "developing country"? Is this...
- The Flimflam Strategy - October 7, 2008
- Knowing that, are we in the media going to aid and abet the McCain campaign's obvious ploy? We journalists like to think we're too smart to be used by one side...
- Thanks to the Wing Nuts - October 3, 2008
- Everyone knew we were in a housing bubble. Across the country, real estate prices were rising so fast that anyone thinking about buying a home had one logical...
- Firings for Politics' Sake - September 30, 2008
- Remember the controversy over the sudden dismissals of nine U.S. attorneys? Remember the allegation that the Bush administration had sullied the long-held principle...
- McCain's Grumpiness Factor - Washington Post - September 26, 2008
- Drama King to the Rescue - September 26, 2008
- Thus far, an objective observer would have to say that Congress has behaved well in the days since Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson delivered a three-page ransom...
- A Bailout or a Bonanza? - September 23, 2008
- Now that the whole highly leveraged structure is threatening to fall, some kind of government bailout is necessary and inevitable. But Congress shouldn't approve...
- McCain Flunks Economics - September 19, 2008
- Within hours, the federal government had bailed out AIG to the tune of $85 billion. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and others who know how Wall Street works...
- Palin Keeps Lying About 'Bridge to Nowhere' - September 16, 2008
- One deeply troubling thing we're learning about Palin is that, as far as she's concerned, unambiguous fact doesn't appear to rise even to the level of...
- The Scream Machine - September 12, 2008
- I hear McCain's amen chorus screaming, "Lipstick on a pig! Lipstick on a pig!" But they're well aware that Obama was unambiguously talking about McCain's economic ideas,...
- GOP Anoints Its Own Chosen One - September 9, 2008
- Much has been made of the fact that he's a Republican running on a pledge to clean up the intolerable, unforgivable mess created over the past eight years by a...
- The Other Party's Playbook - September 5, 2008
- I guess I didn't drink enough Kool-Aid before Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's convention speech, which was received inside the Xcel Energy Center here as if Ronald Reagan...
- The Cynicism Express - September 2, 2008
- Indeed, if you don't get hung up on her actual record, Palin simply is who she is. It's not her fault that she's a former Miss Wasilla with a campy "Northern Exposure"...
- So Many Miles From Selma - August 29, 2008
- A Democrat who represents Atlanta, Lewis fretted for months over whom to endorse in the primaries. Last October, he joined much of the black political establishment in...
- Democrats, Snap Out of It - August 26, 2008
- That's what you could catch Democrats doing last weekend as they assembled for the convention. We'll win, they would say, but we just have to do this or Barack...
- The Unknown John McCain - August 22, 2008
- I don't begrudge McCain his multiple residences or his $520 Ferragamo shoes. I understand that he was just being flippant and unresponsive when he said at the Saddleback...
- Our Multipolar World - August 19, 2008
- It helps that marquee athletes such as Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt have come through with unbelievable performances. Even without all the world records, though, we'd...
- Obama Faces the Smear Machine - August 15, 2008
- The "author" I'm talking about is a man named Jerome Corsi. In a book published last year, "The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada," Corsi claimed...
- What Was Edwards Thinking? - August 11, 2008
- In terms of newsworthiness, it's supposedly not that a politician has an affair (none of our business, we tell ourselves) but that the politician lies when asked about...
- Will China Find Its Way? - August 8, 2008
- On proud display will be China's explosive economic growth, which has lifted more people out of poverty in less time than any such burst of development in history....