Keeping up with the Obamas
When it comes to annoying somebody or other, American presidents can't catch a break even when they decide to take a break. As predictably as potholes follow Chicago winters, critics...
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Obama and Bush vs. Cheney
Watching the dueling torture speeches by President Barack Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney (A rumble in the video jungle?), I was reminded of last year's campaign flap over...
Obama skips thorny details
As I considered the controversy surrounding President Barack Obama's commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame, I recalled a late Irish Catholic friend whose civil rights activism I admired,...
Obama skips thorny details
As I considered the controversy surrounding President Barack Obama's commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame, I recalled a late Irish Catholic friend whose civil rights activism I admired,...
Turning denying dads into proud papas
It's the sort of story that had to happen sooner or later: A Detroit judge is sentencing delinquent dads to watch the TV show "Maury." If you're not a fan,...
Is he the GOP’s voice?
Rush Limbaugh fans have their shorts in a knot because Wanda Sykes ridiculed the conservative talk-show host's kidneys. A low blow, to be sure. But where are they, I wonder,...
To win votes, why not listen to voters?
As much as the Republicans have been suffering from the electoral blues lately, a different kind of an affliction seems to be rising in Democratic ranks. It's called overconfidence. Exhibit...
The GOP should have listened
Jack Kemp had many momentous achievements in his life. Among others, he was instrumental in bringing Queen Elizabeth II her first public hug. You might have thought from the hubbub...
Voting rights go on trial
Is the South still more racist than the rest of the country? Malcolm X used to say in that regard that there was only "down South" and "up South" for...
Cheney’s tortured argument
What a difference an election makes. Our national position has now shifted from "we don't torture" to "we don't torture anymore." Let us, then, disabuse ourselves of former President George...