Marriage on a tightrope
Motherhood no longer appears to be what it used to be. Compared to 20 years ago, today's mothers of newborns are older, more educated, less often white, more often Hispanic...
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Make BP pay for oil disaster
How about that for luck? President Barack Obama makes a big concession to the "Drill, baby, drill" crowd by opening up more offshore lands to drilling and it blows up...
Let’s not forsake our sanity
'Tis the season, it appears, for outlandish crime-fighting ideas — and it's making worldwide news. "Gang violence in Chicago is spiraling so far out of control," gasps Rupert Murdoch's British-based...
It’s simply harassment
Congratulations, Arizona. If your new "reasonable suspicion" immigration ID-check law was intended to get Washington's attention, it succeeded. It also raised my reasonable suspicion that the immigration debate has been...
Stop kids from killing kids
What might the highly publicized suicide of a Massachusetts girl tormented by cyber-bullying have in common with the fatal videotaped beating of a teenage boy in Chicago? Other students apparently...
Getting a handle on the tea partiers
I attended the tea party movement's Tax Day rally near the White House in the way that Mick Jagger in an old Rolling Stones tune "went down to the demonstration...
One very big thumbs down
Roger Ebert wants to keep alive in some form the "At the Movies" TV show that he started with the late Gene Siskel. I wish him luck. I would hate...
It’s not hate, it’s hateful history
Brag Bowling and I have a lot in common. We both care a lot about history. We just happen to come down on opposite sides of the Civil War. Sort...
Man of blunders?
Michael Steele, the Republican National Committee's embattled chairman, should "do a Tiger," as in Tiger Woods. After weeks of gossip and speculation, the pro golf superstar faced a firing squad...
Work at home? Not so darn fast
A friend who writes a newspaper column asked a timely question to his online network of fellow sufferers, including me. He wanted to know in this age of e-mails, the...