What’s so bad about civility?
Just as it sometimes takes a scandal to engage Americans in a national conversation about sex, race or some other touchy topic, it sadly has taken a deranged gunman to...
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Huck Finn stirs up trouble again
Making good on a campaign promise, the Republican-dominated 112th House of Representatives opened with a reading of the Constitution. But the leaders copped out of reading some of the most...
Boomers, embrace your inner grouch
We baby boomers begin to turn 65 this year, which gives us a new excuse to be grumpy. As if we needed a new one. The aging of boomers, the...
Good teen pals = good politics
Of all the scientific studies that came out this past year, the most intriguing to me confirms an old theory: Adult politics are really an extension of which clique you...
A stutter unfit for a king
At last somebody has made an epic triumphant movie about a heroism with which I am personally familiar: that of a recovering stutterer. In "The King's Speech," actor Colin Firth...
The weeper of the House
History may well remember this political year for feminine jeers and manly tears. We heard Sarah Palin tell the Republican Party regulars to "man up" and support tea party candidates....
Tag-team smackdown
When President Barack Obama turned over his Friday news conference to former President Bill Clinton like a tag-team wrestler and left the room to attend a Christmas party — leaving...
No backsliding on House ethics
As I watched the sad sight of Rep. Charles Rangel, a decorated Korean War veteran, standing in the well of the House waiting to be humiliated by House Speaker Nancy...
No backsliding on House ethics
As I watched the sad sight of Rep. Charles Rangel, a decorated Korean War veteran, standing in the well of the House waiting to be humiliated by House Speaker Nancy...
Airport security theater vs. code red dangers
Great quotations aren't what they used to be. History is marked by signature lines like "We shall overcome" and "Give me liberty or give me death." To those, the age...