Obama’s war
Generals are notorious for fighting each new war the way they should have fought the last one. President Barack Obama seems to have picked up that tendency as he ordered...
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Fame and its new upper crust
Once there was a time when you became famous by doing something that mattered. Not anymore. In the age of instant celebrities like Paris Hilton, Perez Hilton and the Kardashian...
President’s sense of timing lacks drama
It's beginning to look a lot like the winter of President Barack Obama's discontent. Among other problems, his slow, steady slide in opinion polls matches the nation's slow steady rise...
Race haunts politics
He takes it back. In a recent interview Attorney General Eric Holder conceded that, if he had it to do over again, he might have chosen another less incendiary word...
Den mother to an orphaned movement
What? Another Sarah Palin piece? A lot of people say they're tired of hearing about her. They think the media pay too much attention to Palin. Forget that. We need...
Civilian courts are able to battle terrorists too
Terrorists by definition try to frighten you into changing the way you do things. In the run-up to his trial as the self-described mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid...
Beware the backlash
I admit it. As the early horrifying news of the Fort Hood massacre unfolded and I was jerked alert by the word that the suspect was a Muslim, a thought-prayer...
East Germans nostalgic for the bad old days
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germans who outlived their country are haunted by an odd reluctance to let go of the bad old days. They...
Dems find hope amid GOP chaos
Democrats took it on the chin in this year's off-off-year gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey. Since those are two states that President Barack Obama won last year, vulnerable...
Racial hope fades despite Obama
In my favorite "Star Trek" episode, Capt. James T. Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise encountered humanoids from a planet embroiled in war over an issue as clear...