Bush oversimplifies almost everything for us
One of President Bush's more endearing qualities is his taste for what the folks back in my hometown used to call "plain speakin'." These days you might call it "Politics...
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Last flight for a pioneer airman
Next to the listing for "discipline" in dictionaries, they should put a picture of the late Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. It would be a fitting tribute to a war...
Do as President Bush says, not as he did
It is curious to watch so many comedians and commentators pick on Martha Stewart when they have a big fish like President Bush to fry. Lady Martha gets pilloried, not...
Democrats will miss Watts too
If you thought leading black congressional Democrats would celebrate the announced departure of Congress' only black Republican, Rep. J.C. Watts of Oklahoma, you would be in for a surprise. Rep....
No need to fear vouchers
Today's new words, class, come from Latin: de minimis. That's a legal term that comes, legal scholars say, from de minimis non curat lex. It means "the law does not...
Supreme Court should read the polls
Executions of the mentally retarded are unconstitutional, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled. That's a relief. I'd rather let dear little Kyrgyzstan stand alone as the only remaining country that...
`The Body’ bites and then bows out
There was a curious inevitability about Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura's announcement that he would not run again this November. His long-running media sitcom was going stale. In the words of...
First the punishment, and then the crime
Life in the war against terrorism is imitating art. Steven Spielberg's new movie "Minority Report" features a government that snatches and imprisons people before they commit crimes that "superseer" predictors...
Reporting still risky for Haiti’s press
As a Graham Greene fan, I tried in vain to contain my excitement as I sat for the first time on the veranda of the Hotel Oloffson with Richard A....
What Bush’s repackaged security plan leaves out
Feel safer yet? A Gallup poll taken shortly after President Bush announced plans last week for a new Cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security shows an impressive 72 percent approval rating...