Mugabe betrays African dreams
If you've been following the sad news in Zimbabwe, you will hear the irony in the name of its capital city, Harare. In the language of the Shona people, it...
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A patriotic signpost
Sen. Barack Obama is wearing his American flag lapel pin again, most appropriately during his speech this week in Missouri on patriotism. His critics may call that a flip-flop. I...
The drug war just across the border
As if our military didn't have its hands full in Iraq and Afghanistan, the head of the Minuteman Project border security group seems to think Minutemen might make good narcotics...
Don Imus’ offensive defense
For a guy who makes his living as a professional talker, the topic of race seems to leave Don Imus oddly tongue-tied. In case you haven't kept up, the pioneer...
Barack, Billary
Chances that Barack Obama would pick Hillary Clinton to be his vice presidential running mate took a nosedive the night he secured enough delegates to clinch the Democratic nomination. Clinton's...
Race, gender: Dueling discontents bubble up
Now that Sen. Barack Obama has gathered enough delegates to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination, a new opponent has appeared on his horizon: the grievance reflex. That's a quirky trait...
Now he’s apologizing?
Here's what President Bush's press secretary had to say about the latest former administration official to write a book that is sharply critical of the Bush White House: "Ask yourself...
A bad history lesson
History repeats itself, someone once said, because people don't hear it right the first time. The problem with Sen. Hillary Clinton's gaffe about Robert F. Kennedy is her failure to...
Obama, Clinton and the endgame
Sometimes your best defense in politics is to take offense. Sen. Hillary Clinton appears to take that tack when she condemns "sexism" in media coverage of her campaign as "deeply...
Odd Bush boost for Obama’s proposal
Sometimes the tit-for-tat exchanges of outrage between political candidates make me wonder: Are they for real? Or, like professional wrestlers on TV, are they just trying to build up their...