High roller of `virtue’ folds ’em
Some of his fellow moral crusaders express disappointment that William J. Bennett admits to big-bucks gambling and a high-roller life at big-time casinos. I'm disappointed that he is giving it...
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Closing the college graduation disparity
Regardless of how the U.S. Supreme Court rules on its high-profile case on affirmative action involving college admissions, Education Secretary Rod Paige says the Bush administration will pursue "race-neutral" alternatives....
Race as an illusion vs. reality
Opponents of affirmative action will find a lot to dislike about the three-part PBS TV series "Race--The Power of an Illusion." Judging by its title, it would appear to give...
Fighting for privacy in an era of terror
While American troops have been winning the war in Iraq, privacy rights continue to come under assault back here at home. Fortunately, we have those Fedayeen of free-speech advocacy, America's...
Courting a winning re-election formula
"Don't mis-underestimate me," George W. Bush joked as a presidential candidate, making a mockery of those who mocked him. It is time for his critics to start taking him seriously....
Sitting on scoops at CNN
CNN's chief news executive, Eason Jordan, shocked and awed a lot of people when he confessed that his network suppressed stories of Iraqi brutality. He also appears to have gratified...
A things-to-do list while president
If I were Syria's President Bashar Assad, I think I'd start packing my bags. It's time to think about making a clean getaway. The more I hear members of the...
`It’s hammer time!’ in Castro’s Cuba
I admit it. I have committed the same crime that poet Raul Rivero allegedly committed. I have criticized the Cuban government. I have done it in print too. But hardly...
Post-Hussein: winning the true peace
There they go again, those carping critics of the war. Still marching, still spouting off. Now their words have caught up with them. Here's what just three of them said...
The right story, just the wrong TV station
Peter Arnett had the right story, at least in part, but entirely the wrong audience. NBC and MSNBC fired the Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Monday from his job as their...