A GOP olive branch to black voters
Woody Allen once said something about how 80 percent of life is just showing up. At the time, I had no idea of what the heck he was driving at....
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Rove affair: So is it `frog-march’ time yet?
Now we know why it is called "spin." Your head could spin around from all of the information and disinformation swirling around disclosures that Karl Rove did, indeed, leak the...
Judging the content of a cartoon
Mexico and the United States have many more important things to worry about than the cuteness or offensiveness of Memin Pinguin. The big-lipped, big-eared, bug-eyed, black-skinned pickaninny cartoon character recently...
Press `privilege’ under siege
Attention, fellow journalists: Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has blown our cover. In his argument for why New York Times reporter Judith Miller should be jailed until she tells a grand...
Are wealthy countries hurting Africa with increased aid?
Who could find anything negative to say about a movement that brings together stars as diverse as President Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Brad Pitt and Madonna? Well, there's...
Conscience of a `swing’ voter
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will be remembered in judicial terms as a "swinger." In judicial terms, that's not such a bad thing. It only means that O'Connor...
Rule of thumb: Thou shalt aim for clarity
Excuse me, folks, but what part of "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" don't y'all understand? That question repeatedly came...
Apologies are all about the future
"The past is never dead," William Faulkner once wrote. "It's not even past." Senate leaders found that out the hard way when they decided to take up a piece of...
Can we finally talk?
I don't think Sen. Dick Durbin's (D-Ill.) overheated remarks about detainee abuse at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have given the aid and comfort to Al Qaeda that some of his overheated...
The sultans of certainty
"The only certainty is that nothing is certain," said the Roman scholar Pliny the Elder. With that kind of attitude, he never could have made it in today's media world....