Beautiful day couldn’t distract Daley from the issues
My favorite Daley moment came on a beautiful summer day during the 1996 Democratic National Convention. The mayor and his wife paid a courtesy call at a lunchtime reception hosted...
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Beautiful day couldn’t distract Daley from the issues
My favorite Daley moment came on a beautiful summer day during the 1996 Democratic National Convention. The mayor and his wife paid a courtesy call at a lunchtime reception hosted...
Pandering to Obamaphobes
When I was a kid way back in the previous century, my favorite attraction at the local county fair was a midway amusement that everyone called "dunk the dimwit" —...
Pandering to Obamaphobes
When I was a kid way back in the previous century, my favorite attraction at the local county fair was a midway amusement that everyone called "dunk the dimwit" —...
How we still fight the Civil War
Fort Sumter surrendered to the rebels again last week with what one observer called "measured enthusiasm," compared to the Civil War centennial celebration 50 years earlier. For that, South Carolina,...
Obama’s re-election budget
After hearing President Barack Obama's robust response to their budget-cutting proposals, Republican leaders seemed shocked to hear that the president sounds like — gasp! — a Democrat. At least Senate...
NAACP, right-wing foes get friendly
Can prominent right wingers like Newt Gingrich and Grover Norquist get along with the very liberal NAACP? Yes, they can, at least on the high cost of prisons. I'm talking...
Reaganomics? Meet ‘Ryan-omics’
What would America look like if the tea party movement ran it? You can get a good glimpse in Republican Rep. Paul Ryan's budget-balancing plan. Now, I wonder, will Democrats...
The freedom to snoop
Conservatives express shock and horror over political correctness, which they roughly define as the Orwellian suppression of any frank discussion about issues that liberals hold dear. But conservatives practice their...
A ‘reverse beauty pageant’ for tyrants
"What if they gave a war and nobody came?" So goes a bumper sticker from the Vietnam War era. I've got an update in mind: What if they gave a...