Putting health of the unborn ahead of born
It says something quite revealing about the Bush administration that it rushes with greater urgency to win health insurance for the unborn than it does for the born. Administration officials...
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Prisoners of a war of words
If words were water you could drown in the verbiage that the professional radio and TV grouches have been fulminating about Camp X-Ray. That's the Pentagon's snazzy code name for...
1 more Enron woe: Al Sharpton
As if the bigwigs at Enron Corp. did not have enough on their plates, here comes the Rev. Al Sharpton. And, a day later, the Rev. Jesse Jackson. There was...
Bin Laden and his quest for slaves
Is Osama bin Laden, on top of his other sins, a racial bigot? That question crossed my mind as I was reading a translation of the amateur video of bin...
Mugabe’s highly visible friend
It is hard to find anyone who occupies a place in the American conscience who is quite like Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, although Uganda's former strongman Idi Amin comes close....
3 white guys and a flag: Symbols or truth?
I guess all of that national unity and good feeling that followed the tragedies of Sept. 11 was just too good to last. A planned memorial to honor the 343...
Enron echoes past scandals
Here's a modest proposal to major news media: Accompany every news story about Enron Corp. with a profile of an Enron victim so we don't forget who this scandal is...
Harvard disses a blue-ribbon professor
Talk about double trouble. Harvard's new president Lawrence Summers must have wondered what sin he possibly could have committed that was horrendous enough to bring both the Rev. Jesse Jackson...
Hard-learned lessons from 9-11
I have a friend who flies so much I call him "Shuttle." He's been flying a lot less since Sept. 11, like a lot of other corporate road warriors, and...
Getting tired of news overload?
Stop the presses. My one and only son has become a news junky. "Dad? Is Osama bin Laden going to make another terror attack?" It is bad enough that I,...