Listening to the deaf
To "mainstream" or not to "mainstream?" That is the question that energizes student and faculty protests at Gallaudet University. The return of protests at America's only liberal arts university for...
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Enjoy, Senator, it’ll get worse
Memo to Sen. Barack Obama: That giant swooshing sound that you hear is the roar of a media wave, urgently pushing you to run for president. Don't let it go...
Voices of wisdom may be what Bush wants to hear
President Bush says it's not true, but recent events related to Iraq indicate the Bush administration is leaning toward the George Aiken option: Declare victory and come home. Aiken is...
In presidential race, winning is everything
Former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner's surprising decision to drop out of the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination marathon disappointed the party's moderates. His reasons revealed a weakness that dooms most presidential...
The amazing virtue of forgiveness
To err is human, to forgive divine, wrote the poet Alexander Pope. I could not agree more. To forgive is divine. It is also next to impossible. Yet even in...
Blame game turns to the usual suspects
Partisan panic in the wake of former Rep. Mark Foley's e-mail scandal seems to have caused some conservatives to forget their own sermons about personal responsibility. Some conservatives, including House...
UNTANGLING FOLEY’S WEB
They've been getting by on spin and raw power for so long that House Republican leaders apparently don't know how to handle a truly damaging scandal. Fingers are pointing every...
Oprah, Obama and the leadership gap
It's official: Oprah Winfrey refuses to throw her bonnet into the ring as a presidential candidate, but she's more than happy to push Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for the job....
The real Satan has his say
The devil, you say? His ears must be burning more than usual these days. Ol' Beelzebub's name is getting called into political service, from the loonier corners of the left...
Obama’s audacious aura of hope
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama insists that he is not running for president, but he's not exactly running away from it either. Why should he? The Illinois Democrat has leaped farther...