Lessons from the ‘hood about living with terror
As America struggles to adjust to terrorism, I turned to some voices of experience for advice. They are unfortunately easy to find. In a country where one in six children...
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It’s time to get back to our old routines
I'm still trying to adjust to the "New Normalcy." That's what Vice President Dick Cheney called the new security-conscious life in which we Americans find ourselves living since the terror...
Confess . . . or else
President Bush said terrorists attacked America on Sept. 11 because they "hate our freedoms." Sometimes we Americans don't like our freedoms very much, either. We love them most of the...
Here’s a refreshing concept
Every so often a Washington official, despite his or her best effort, accidentally stumbles into telling the truth. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld experienced such a golden moment when he expressed...
More than mail fell between cracks
When government leaders tell us to stay calm while they panic, it does not bolster our confidence. Such was the scene when House leaders decided to shut down the House...
Terrorists have also threatened urban recovery
A couple of nights after the Sept. 11 terror attacks my 12-year-old son hit me with a question that was surprising, even for a child who has hit an age...
The U.S. frowns on assassinations, except . . .
All's fair in love and war, except when it isn't. Assassination is not fair under United States policy, unless we say it is. That's what the Bush administration seemed to...
Censorship during wartime rises again
Osama bin Laden's publicity hunger has raised prickly questions for America's broadcast media. For example, would we Americans have given Adolf Hitler's speeches the live and unedited access to our...
Get to the root of the hatred
Say, Osama bin Laden, is that a "Made-in-the-USA" digital sports watch on your wrist? Watching the videotape of himself that bin Laden released Sunday, the day America began to bomb...
Picking on W. off-limits
It was the late California Sen. Hiram Johnson who coined the quote: "The first casualty when war comes is truth." That was during World War I. These days the second...