Why Cosby likes ‘The Obama Show’
Twenty-five years ago NBC took a risk. In late September, the network launched a half-hour situation comedy about a prosperous, well-educated family where the children actually listened to their parents...
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Can we get past rude behavior?
I understand why President Barack Obama didn't want reporters to tell the world that he thought Kanye West behaved like a "jackass" at the MTV Video Music Awards. After all,...
Fiery rhetoric of Obama’s critics
People are asking, but President Barack Obama's White House team denies that racism has anything to do with the protests against his health-care reform plan. That's smart. The same approach...
The politics of shouting
I have nothing against passion in politics. But when defenders of Rep. Joe Wilson's interruption of President Barack Obama's health-care speech claim "free speech" and "double standards," they only reveal...
Slinging mud
Score one for the right wing. Conservative witch hunters, notably Fox News' Glenn Beck, are claiming victory for hounding President Barack Obama's green jobs czar out of office. Yet the...
Audacity of the ‘Obama effect’
After decades of criticizing public schools as places where hardly anybody learns anything, suddenly conservatives are upset that a 15-to-20-minute live Webcast might teach kids too much. That's because the...
Chilly fall in polling, health-care debate
Watching President Barack Obama's poll numbers slide in recent weeks takes me back to the worst moments of the presidential campaign. I'm not thinking of Obama's campaign. I'm thinking of...
Kennedy’s special gift: Friendly politics
One of the biggest surprises that greeted me when I arrived in Washington as a young reporter was this: Sens. Edward M. Kennedy and Orrin Hatch played tennis together. This...
‘Following orders’
Recent bad news about CIA interrogators, Michael Jackson's personal physician and Lt. William Calley of My Lai massacre fame brings a familiar theme rattling back into my mind like a...
Pistol-packing camera hogs
It is disturbing to see protesters show up with guns at President Barack Obama's political events. Yet, the practice is not illegal. It's also old enough to have whiskers on...