When you agree to leave your vital organs for transplantation after death, you do so with the expectation that the doctor will indeed wait for you to die before removing...
President Clinton wanted air strikes against the Serbs around Sarajevo. Within days, he got them. Two strikes, one Serb target hit. And then the debacle. The Serbs shelled civilians in...
The "Angry White Male," suitably capitalized to indicate that the menace has become a media-certified trend, stalks the land, or at least the land of the media. In the 10...
"We will not be satisfied by anything other than the end of the (Russia-Iran) nuclear program." --Secretary of State Warren Christopher And what, pray tell, is the penalty for denying...
Last Tuesday's Opening Day in Detroit featured the Tigers, the Indians and a near riot. The Tiger Stadium crowd pelted the players with beer bottles and cigarette lighters, while at...
Fewer than half the dead had been recovered from their bombed-out tomb in Oklahoma City before the political exploitation of their tragedy had begun. It began perhaps with my "Inside...
Nothing better captures the decay of the Clinton presidency from the change-friendly, innovative liberalism promised in 1992 to the reactionary liberalism of today, determined to defend the welfare state at...
The original conventional wisdom about the "Contract With America," back before the November elections, held that it was a terrible blunder. Instead of coasting to easy victory on an anti-Clinton...
When North Dakota's Democratic Sens. Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan killed the balanced-budget amendment on the grounds that it would "loot" the Social Security trust fund, I wrote a column...
What has happened to the presidency of "change"? The word appeared 11 times in Clinton's inaugural address. Its central theme was the need to "make change our friend," perhaps the...