Freedom fighters in the Arab press
A lot of people were alarmed to see that Palestinians gave the terrorist Hamas organization an upset victory last week over the reputedly corrupt Fatah in parliament elections. But, in...
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Google should do battle overseas too
Internet access companies like Google Inc., America Online Inc. and Yahoo Inc. lavishly promise to protect your privacy as a user. Those promises are being put to a rigorous test...
Plantation politics revisited, again
If you're a sensitive sort, put in your earplugs. The brutal ugliness of presidential campaign politics has already begun, judging by the manufactured indignation of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's critics...
Can’t handle the truth?
When the American Dialect Society recently named "truthiness" its 16th annual Word of the Year, the choice sounded like a joke. New revelations about James Frey's partly made-up best-selling memoir...
What would King protest today?
I knew we had entered an interesting phase of American history when I saw a discount mattress company's jubilant TV ad for a "Martin Luther King Day Sale." Contrary to...
Post-scandal cleanup
It is not healthy to blow your favorite evening beverage through your nostrils. But that's how surprised I was to hear Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean deny that any...
A lobbyist’s wretched excess
"Wall Street loves bulls and bears, but not hogs," a stockbroker friend once told me. As the scandal now unfurling around superlobbyist Jack Abramoff illustrates, something similar might well be...
Why Condi’s star is rising
After a year filled with unpleasantness for some Bush administration leaders, count Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as the biggest political winner. Compared with the bashing that some top members...
Open mouth, insert foot
On the second day of Christmas, my true love reminded me to think up some New Year's resolutions, a task that I annually dread. I resolve once again to eat...
Congress’ holiday surprise for the nation’s poor folks
In a season of holiday cheer and giving, congressional conferees have come up with a Grinch-style lump of coal for Americans who don't have a lot of political clout or...