How rich do you think you are? Well, here’s the truth
My, how my e-mail box bulges with responses to my recent critique of President Bush's proposed tax cuts: (Names have been abbreviated to protect the innocent and the wacky.) Mr....
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Black history isn’t just for blacks anymore
A lot of people, including me, wonder what in the world Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) could have been thinking when he blabbed his way into a firestorm of controversy and...
Bush reaches out to the `needy’
President Bush has been getting a bum rap from those who say he is insensitive to minorities. His new stimulus package shows how much he loves one minority in particular:...
Bond movie offers clues to crisis
Everybody's trying to figure out what's going on in North Korean President Kim Jong Il's goofy head these days. Maybe the answer is in the movies. President Bush's policy has...
Dr. Frist to the rescue of his party
When Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) sprang into action minutes after a sport-utility vehicle rollover accident on a Florida highway on New Year's Day, he made just the sort of headlines...
Feeling a draft coming on
Greetings, young'ns. Uncle Charlie wants you. Yes, Rep. Charles B. Rangel, a New York Democrat and Korean War veteran who voted against President Bush's Iraq war powers resolution has announced...
To rob a burning cross of all of its symbolic power
Slowly but surely we are discovering what it takes to get a rise out of the usually mute Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. This time it took a burnt cross....
Could you repeat that, please?
Several regular readers have e-mailed requests for me to please, please write something about what a boneheaded statement Senate Republican leader Trent Lott made during his tribute to Sen. Strom...
Race not only `bias’ in college admissions
Stop the presses! I have run across what appears to be several classic examples of unfair preferential treatment in college admissions. So shocking are they that I hesitate to report...
No passion in Bush’s compassion
A former Bush administration aide has apologized for committing a Washington sin: lapsing into candor in the presence of a reporter. Candor is what comes out when you tell the...