A `Brokeback’ backlash
Fate is indeed fickle. Who would have guessed that in this year's Oscar voting, "Brokeback Mountain," a fine risky movie about a gay love affair, would surge ahead of "Capote,"...
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U.S. troops seeking Iraq exit strategy too
Pollster John Zogby says he has been asked by senior military brass to give a presentation at U.S. Central Command in Florida about his firm's recent poll of American troops...
Rove vs. Clinton: Grrrrrrrrr
What's with Karl Rove and Hillary Rodham Clinton? President Bush's brain and the former first lady have been sounding like chattering teenage candidates in a hot student council race. It...
Uncle Tom revisited, redeemed
Uncle Tom got a bum rap. I'm convinced of that after talking to James Henson Sr., a retired attorney in suburban Washington. He ought to know. He has known Uncle...
Tear down China’s `Great Firewall’
Not a moment too soon, Congress is turning up the heat on the cozy relationship that Internet giants Google, Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems conduct with China's cyber-police....
Cheney’s keeping secrets again
White House reporters pounced on White House press secretary Scott McClellan like jackals circling a wounded antelope, teeth bared. "Scott, do you think that the shooting accident involving the vice...
When a pulpit turns to politics
Conservatives pride themselves, accurately or not, on grounding their arguments in fact, not emotion. Yet, some comments at Coretta Scott King's nationally televised funeral that were critical of President Bush,...
A cultural clash
It is unfortunate, one civil libertarian once said, but sometimes you have to defend people whom you would never invite to your home for dinner. That's how I feel about...
Kicking our oil addiction without help
When I was in Zimbabwe during the beginning of the country's fuel crisis a few years ago, a popular joke about President Robert Mugabe's inept policies described a driver sitting...
A litany of her triumphs
Let us remember Coretta Scott King for the earlier triumphs of her life and not so much for her family's later controversies. Let us remember the love, courage and tenacity...