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- Partisan Realities - February 16, 2009
- Gregg's turnabout was supposedly an embarrassment for the new Obama administration -- and I suppose it was. But it also was a moment of realism, of clarity, of an...
- Pope Should Not Accept Holocaust Denier - February 9, 2009
- Still, he could go to Treblinka, also in Poland, or any of the other Polish camps -- Sobibor, Belzec, Majdanek. In Germany, Austria and elsewhere he could visit Dachau,...
- Use Spending to Demand Education Reform - February 2, 2009
- That message is only compounded by the stimulus package. The need for at least $1 trillion in economic stimulus is beyond argument, and the GOP's obsession with tax...
- Moving Past Torture - January 26, 2009
- Dershowitz, mind you, was not in favor of torture but argued that if torture was going to be done, it was best that it be done legally. In a similar vein, the...
- The Weight of the World Now Falls on Obama... - January 19, 2009
- As he was dressing, tribes in the nether reaches of Afghanistan started to move toward the Pakistan border. In the Korengal Valley of Konar province, a U.S....
- Meet Lady Subprime - January 12, 2009
- This tale, unfortunately as American as apple pie, was recounted recently in The Wall Street Journal. Since the story ran over a long, holiday weekend, it is...
- Could Have Seen This War Coming - January 5, 2009
- I get the impression that Israel is expected to put up with this. The implied message from demonstrators and some opinion columnists is that this is the price...
- Reading Into Bush's Book List - December 29, 2008
- In his Wall Street Journal column, Rove says that Bush read 95 books in 2006 alone. In 2007, he read 51 books and as of last week, he had read 40 in 2008. The...
- Warren On? Party Off. - December 22, 2008
- I should say right off that my mother feels less strongly about Warren than my sister does. But I should add immediately that my sister feels very strongly indeed....
- Leaks Help Burst a President's Bubble - December 15, 2008
- Inside The Bubble, as Obama well knows, lurks a further danger: groupthink. Obama has used this Orwellian word himself. "One of the dangers in a White House, based...
- Predator For a Predator - December 8, 2008
- Zimbabwe has almost literally come apart. Mugabe, the onetime freedom fighter, expropriated the white-owned farms that were his country's breadbasket and awarded them to...
- Holder is Disqualified by Mark Rich Pardon - December 1, 2008
- Rich was a commodities trader who amassed both a fortune and some influential friends back in the 1970s and '80s. Along with his partner, Pincus Green, he was...
- Obama Will Govern Above Politics - November 24, 2008
- Not quite. There was always a synaptic gap between Obama's ethereal image and his more grounded reality, and the sneaky suspicion that he and Hillary Clinton were...
- Obama Should Look to FDR Not Lincoln - November 17, 2008
- The revisionist take on Roosevelt is contained in Amity Shlaes' book "The Forgotten Man." She argues that New Deal programs not only failed to lift the country out of...
- Three Men for Today's Challenges - November 10, 2008
- The new president's urgent priority has to be the economy. He has no other choice. But given that Obama has no foreign policy background, he needs a secretary of...
- Historic Change - November 5, 2008
- Of course, Barack Obama is not a descendant of slaves -- but that is hardly the point. The point instead is that he would have been a slave himself in another era...
- The Election That LBJ Won - November 3, 2008
- My colleague David Broder dates the moment he knew "this presidential campaign was going to be the best" he'd ever covered to Dec. 8, 2007. That was when about 18,000...
- Palin's Love Boats - October 27, 2008
- What followed, once everyone returned to the lower 48, was a gusher of a mush -- praise, love notes, sweet nothings and, altogether, the sort of mooning one does...
- Party Like It's 1964 - October 20, 2008
- It is worth remembering that both Rice and Powell spoke to that Philadelphia convention. And it is worth recalling, too, that Bush ran as a "compassionate...
- A Few Debate Questions - October 13, 2008
- Senator McCain, I'd like to ask you why you've attacked Senator Obama for associating with the former domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers, even though you have...
- Media Gives Palin a Pass - October 6, 2008
- Not enough? OK. Palin also said that she "and others in the legislature" called for the state of Alaska to divest itself of investments in companies that do...
- The Long Reach of a Depression - September 29, 2008
- The rhetoric in Washington seems oblivious to history. It talks only of financial matters and it searches, as any mindless politician must, for culprits. Greed is...
- A Lesson the Markets Ignored - September 22, 2008
- "I was astonished that nobody stopped me," he wrote in his book "Rogue Trader." "People in London should have known." Indeed. The theme in the current...
- Personal Treason Soils John McCain - September 15, 2008
- "We know that those two ads are untrue," Behar said. "They are lies." Freeze. Close in on McCain. This was the moment. He has largely been avoiding the press....
- Too Cool to Fight? - September 8, 2008
- Stephanopoulos vainly tried for some genuine reaction. In choosing Palin, did John McCain get someone who met the minimum test of being "capable of being president?"...
- Foolish Arguments for Palin - September 1, 2008
- John McCain's selection of Palin, which I first viewed with horror, could now be seen in a different light. Based on various television interviews over the Labor Day...
- Obama's Solid, But Uninspring Speech - August 29, 2008
- In contrast, Cooke's lyric about change was written to evoke the civil rights struggle. It was music about music. It was purportedly written in response to Bob Dylan's...
- Obama's Reassuring Choice - August 24, 2008
- In choosing Biden, Obama reached into the very heart of the Washington establishment -- especially its foreign policy wing. In his many years on the Senate Foreign...
- Can We Talk Earnestly About Georgia? - August 18, 2008
- I ask my nasty little questions because it has been the policy of the current Bush administration to have Georgia as well as Ukraine admitted to NATO. This would mean...
- Inside Obama's VP Thoughts - August 13, 2008
- "The Gallup poll has me and McCain about tied. Tied! I should be killing him. But look at the recent numbers. Me up by a little and then he comes up and then it's...
- Brutality to Make a Point - August 11, 2008
- But the bombing, including areas near the capital of Tbilisi, is not merely disproportionate, it is purposely, studiously, coldly atrocious. It is meant to punish -- not...
- The Book on the Shelf - August 4, 2008
- Nothing more important than reinventing the book? Not ending world hunger? Not doing away with Rush Limbaugh? None of these? What's wrong with the book? I understand...
- Known Unknowns About Obama - July 28, 2008
- But I would not stop there. I would include campaign finance reform, which infuriated so many in his own party; opposition to earmarks, which won him no friends; his...
- Ink-Stained Wretchedness - July 21, 2008
- Johnny Depp once had "Winona Forever" tattooed on his shoulder, but changed it to "Wino Forever" when his relationship with Winona Ryder turned out to last somewhat...
- How Carter Was Better Than Reagan - July 7, 2008
- Reagan, who followed Carter to the White House, wore only a smile. For him, there was no energy crisis. Whereas Carter had insisted only the government could manage the...
- An Election of Likability and Character - Washington Post - June 23, 2008
- For GOP, The Hits Keep on Coming - National Journal - May 22, 2008
- Why Clinton Fights On - Washington Post - May 19, 2008
- GOP Troubles: A Mississippi Microcosm? - National Journal - May 13, 2008
- Obama Rises Above Flag Pins & Panders - Washington Post - May 5, 2008