Blogger’s hard-learned lesson
If a courtroom trial is a contest between dueling narratives, Shirley Sherrod's lawsuit against Andrew Breitbart reads like Little Nell taking on Snidely Whiplash. That is, unless you're hearing about...
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Nelson Mandela’s lesson for Egypt
Egypt's latest pharaoh has surrendered his crown. He was booted from his throne not by armies but through a groundswell of Twitter Age popular will. Let Egyptians celebrate. They've earned...
Business can do business with Obama
Even for a speaker as famously gifted as President Barack Obama, business executives are a tough crowd. In my experience, they don't laugh out loud at jokes as easily as,...
Please, Hosni Mubarak, go away now!
In the spirit of Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel," plus my fervent belief that there's not enough poetry in politics these days, I offer what I imagine is rattling around in...
Reagan and Obama, differently similar
President Ronald Reagan didn't care much about his legacy, he used to joke, since he wouldn't be around to read it. If he were, he'd have a lot to read...
Memories that turns history into myth
"This library is not for coloreds." That's what Ronald McNair, a 9-year-old black South Carolina kid, was told at his local public library in 1959, recalls his older brother Carl...
Brave (or stupid) enough to take on mom?
Amy Chua's not so tough. The Yale law professor's new memoir, "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother," has touched a raw national nerve with its descriptions of her tough "Chinese...
Obama gets up off the canvas
At this midpoint of his first term, it is too early to say what President Barack Obama's legacy will be. We don't even know whether he will get a second...
It couldn’t hurt to have a Muslim ‘Cosby Show’
CBS anchor Katie Couric startled some listeners when she suggested a Muslim "Cosby Show," but the idea actually has merit. It's hard to be afraid of the people we see...
Breaking the cycle of fear, violence
We tend to respond in one of two ways to the news that a deranged gunman has fatally shot a group of people with an extraordinarily lethal weapon. Some people...