Making sense about Jacko’s shattered life
Every media circus needs its sideshow. Michael Jackson's acquittal Monday appeared to leave Rev. Al Sharpton, a Jackson adviser and major megaphone for racial anger, in the awkward position of...
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Back off Big Bird
They're coming after Big Bird again. And "Arthur," "Reading Rainbow," "Dragon Tales," "Between the Lions," "Postcards from Buster" and "Clifford the Big Red Dog." If you thought you saw a...
Will Congress have the guts to tackle medical marijuana?
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass," "it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more...
Deep Throat: Dirty tricks, dirty hands
Conservative commentator Patrick Buchanan and liberal Rev. Jesse Jackson don't often agree on much politically, but each finds a lot to dislike about Deep Throat. So do I. Like many...
Prisoner abuse charges hurt U.S. cause
President Bush was right to label absurd a comparison by Amnesty International of America's military detention centers to a Stalinist gulag. Our detention camps are not gulags. Unfortunately, that's not...
`Pro-life’–with limits
It could have been easy. In an unexpected expression of good sense and sound judgment, the House passed a bill to expand federal funding for stem-cell research. But President Bush...
`Darth Bush’?
Politics gets into everything these days, even "Star Wars." "George Lucas must be a Democrat," said my 15-year-old son when he arrived home from the opening day of the latest...
Fox inadvertently highlights failed immigration policy
At first, I thought Mexican President Vicente Fox was trying for some sort of laugh line when he asserted that his country's migrant workers in the U.S. do work that...
Sympathy for geezer rock stars
On the culture front, it is encouraging for an aging Baby Boomer like me to learn that the hottest act on this summer's rock concert circuit happens to be a...
Immigration’s not-so-hidden costs hurt American workers
Despite the partisan bickering for which Washington is known these days, there were nothing but smiles and warm and cheery bipartisanship as Senators Edward M. Kennedy and John McCain announced...