Is the tea party over?
Has the tea party peaked? Republican lawmakers affiliated with the upstart anti-tax movement scored big in the nerve-racking debt-ceiling debacle, but the victory left enough hard feelings to feed the...
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Recipe for budget fights
A "sugar-coated Satan sandwich." That's what Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Missouri Democrat and chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, called the bipartisan deal to raise the debt ceiling —as he...
Black voters’ Obama blues
It is only in comparison to today's Republican Party, divided between its old-school establishment and its tea party zealots, that today's Democrats look unified. In fact, as President Barack Obama...
Breivik’s real enemy: Himself
Anders Behring Breivik, the far-far-right-wing monster charged in Norway with the biggest mass murder by a single gunman in modern memory, reminds me of how often delusional minds hate others...
Juan Williams’ payback time
Revenge is a dish that is best served cold, an old saying goes. Juan Williams, the Fox News political analyst who was famously fired last fall from NPR, serves up...
Bachmann’s ‘submerged’ benefits
She's a famous foe of "big government" in her presidential campaign. Yet Rep. Michele Bachmann says it is no big deal that her family is reported to have received several...
When politics head toward crisis mode
Former first lady Betty Ford's funeral Thursday reminded many of us what a great person she was. She also left some timely reminders of how great we could be too....
Britain’s tabloid scandal sounds familiar
It is with a mixture of outrage and envy that an old-school newspaper veteran like me views Great Britain's newspaper hacking scandal. Even the most straight-laced reporters sometimes envy the...
Sometimes justice is hard to take
As much as I tried to avoid being taken in by the drama of the Casey Anthony trial, I was jerked alert by its conclusion, the most controversial murder acquittal...
Some scandals won’t sit still
It's hard for a social commentator to keep up with all of the legal, moral and political lessons offered up by the still-unfolding Dominique Strauss-Kahn sex mess. But the most...