Groping for a face-saving way out of Iraq
Here's a word of advice to aspiring pundits, commentators and pontificators: Avoid making predictions. Your fans probably won't remember when you were right and your hecklers will never let you...
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Put term limits on airport security rules
If you fly a lot and your name is not David Nelson, you should be thankful. In airports across the country, people named David Nelson have been stopped mysteriously, yanked...
Religious symbols are what you make of them
It is ironic to see supporters of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore pay homage to the 2.5-ton 10 Commandments monument that he had installed in the middle of the night...
Is anyone capable of beating the candinator?
Somewhere in Hollywood, I am certain that somebody is pitching a script idea to a movie producer about a robot that runs for governor. "He's a good-looking robot," the pitchman...
An invaluable look back
I am more than halfway into ABC News anchor Peter Jennings' excellent documentary on Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech when I hear comedian-activist Dick Gregory get to...
Reporting deadly in today’s Haiti
As President Jean-Bertrand Aristide made it clear we would not get all that we wanted, and our meeting in Haiti's palatial presidential palace turned depressingly glum, he offered a "a...
`PG’ rating gives kids a boost
Everybody has something to say about parents and public schools. A columnist has only to raise the subject and the e-mails come pouring in. "Although your article addressed the African-American...
Guilty or innocent? Bryant’s racial gap
Comparisons between the 24-year-old Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant's looming sexual assault trial and O.J. Simpson's murder trial are inevitable--and everywhere. Here's another: Without any actual evidence or testimony...
Colin Powell is the `odd man out’ again
"It's August." That was how one State Department official dismissed reports that Secretary of State Colin Powell has decided to resign at the end of President Bush's first term. Ah,...
Black parents must teach their kids to succeed
As the black parent of a teenager, I share the recently publicized pain of some black high school parents in Shaker Heights, an affluent suburb of Cleveland. Distressed that their...