When tax rage goes over the edge
Some of today's populists are giving elitists a good name. That thought came to mind after Joseph Stack fatally crashed his single-engine plane into a building that houses Internal Revenue...
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Military courts are overrated
Resistance to political influence is a virtue in a good attorney general. Tone deafness to politics is not, especially when the public fails to understand the virtue in what you're...
Yes, global warming could mean more snow
Here's a recent headline that caused a few double takes in Washington, D.C.: "Global warming hearing postponed because of snow." Yes, nothing gives an unearned boost to global warming skeptics...
Be not afraid of Palin
Sarah Palin's conservative fans ask me why "the liberal media" are "so afraid" of the former governor of Alaska. I, for one, am unafraid. And I am delighted that the...
LIFTING THE BAN
By Clarence Page, a member of the Tribune's editorial boardPentagon chiefs are beginning to acknowledge that gays and lesbians should be allowed to serve openly in the military. Unfortunately, real...
Our census reflects our confusion
It is time to take another census, as Americans do every 10 years, which means it is time again to argue about the census. If the census is designed to...
Our gaffe and ‘gotcha’ culture
I was not surprised when MSNBC host Chris Matthews mused on air right after President Barack Obama's State of the Union address that "I forgot he was black." After all,...
How companies became ‘persons’
Riddle me this: When is a corporation like a freed slave? Answer: When it is trying to win human rights in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. It may...
Can Obama rebound?
"You never let a serious crisis go to waste," White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said a few days after Barack Obama's election to the White House. A year...
Google vs. China’s censors
Google launched its China operation in January 2006 with high hopes. The democratizing benefits of increased Web access for the Chinese, the Internet giant hoped, would outweigh the Chinese Communist...