Novak: A lighthearted ‘Prince of Darkness’
Some people know ahead of time how their obituaries will start off and, try as they might to avoid it, they know the lead paragraph is not going to sound...
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A race card from the right wing
I thought slavery reparations was a dead issue. Glenn Beck set me straight. The radio talk-show host and Fox News Channel star says President Barack Obama's proposed health-care overhaul is...
Sorting out our health concerns
This is the August of President Barack Obama's discontent. His proposed health-care overhaul is taking a beating in the polls. Town hall meetings have been disrupted by angry voices, some...
Rationing health care
"Rationing" is one of the scariest words in the health-care debate. It conjures up apocalyptic nightmare images from "Soylent Green," the sci-fi thriller about a future in which the old...
Getting health care healthy
Is the White House losing the message war on health care? Like other presidents, President Barack Obama is pestered by myths and conspiracy theorists. He can easily ignore the "birthers,"...
Obama’s brew-ha-ha
President Barack Obama's got his hands full with health care, two wars and the economy. But he put all that aside to have a beer in the Rose Garden with...
The Obama haters’ extreme disorder
As congressional lawmakers return to their home districts for August recess, they could find a creature from Washington's silly season waiting for them: the "birthers." That's the nickname given to...
Gates-gate: A clear case of ‘contempt of cop’
I disagreed with President Barack Obama even before he did. I didn't think the Cambridge, Mass., police officer who arrested Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. for "disorderly conduct" at...
Quiet crisis in our colleges
President Barack Obama's new community college initiative brought to mind an old Chris Rock comedy monologue that went something like this: "You know why they call it community college? Because...
Obama’s doctrine
How should we think about racism in the age of President Barack Obama? In his first speech as president to the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization, Obama answered...