Ignoring New Orleans’ poor — again
Two years later, too little has changed in New Orleans. Residents of the Crescent City's poor neighborhoods were abandoned long before Hurricane Katrina, said the newly elected Democratic Sen. Barack...
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Bush takes on the Iraq war with a Vietnam flip-flop
President Bush sternly and persistently rejected comparisons between Iraq and the Vietnam War -- until he decided to embrace them. As far back as an April 2004 news conference, he...
Rove’s raving Clinton obsession
Is Republican strategist Karl Rove attacking Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton because he really wants to help her win the Democratic presidential nomination? Do Democrats sound paranoid when they suspect that...
Moving beyond what your best friends tell you
There they go again. I'm listening to a political call-in program on the radio and a caller says he doesn't believe the major opinion polls. That's his right, but I...
Diversity is difficult, but worth the effort
Robert Putnam's fears have come true. The Harvard political scientist worried that some people would use his latest research to argue against immigration, affirmative action and multiculturalism. Sure enough, at...
Obama’s international melodrama
Leave it to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) to stir up an international incident by acknowledging something everyone already knew. Obama's bombshell: If the Obama administration knows Osama bin Laden is...
Ron Paul big on ‘Net, but media don’t notice
Of all the interesting little fish swimming beneath the currents of the major candidates in this presidential campaign season, none is making waves as surprising as those kicked up by...
A freshman lawmaker’s prescription
Since almost everyone in Washington knows that members of Congress and their staffs have some of the best health insurance in town, you can imagine the surprise that greeted freshman...
For some vets, battles never end
When Marine Lance Cpl. Jeffrey Lucey returned from his tour of duty in Iraq, he looked like a kid who had lucked out. No visible wounds. But looks aren't everything....
When did ‘liberal’ become a dirty word?
The greatest triumph that conservatives ever achieved is to make liberals embarrassed to call themselves "liberal." That thought came to mind as I watched Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton rhetorically wriggle...