My, oh, my, look who’s profiling now
If you think, as some social commentators have opined, that the age of irony ended with the recent terrorist attacks, consider this: Two major polls find that African-Americans are more...
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The problem with trashing liberty
Since the world was changed by recent terrorist attacks, a lot of minds have changed on the meaning of freedom and liberty. As one friend of mine said, "I was...
Everyday life must go on
Play ball! America's back at the ballpark again, but, this time our national anthem seems to be getting real respect. Since the day the world changed on Sept. 11, there...
How to catch an elusive terrorist
Hold onto your cloaks and daggers, folks. Tracking down Osama bin Laden and breaking up his terrorist network may require the help of some "unsavory characters," the kind who violate...
Fighting what may become endless war
This looks like the war I was waiting for. Like a lot of my fellow draftees during the Vietnam War, I felt cheated. Unlike the war that my father's generation...
What happens when rage turns to hate?
While the Bush administration plunged into the big job of fashioning an intelligent response to the bums who launched last week's terror attacks, some hotheads in the civilian world couldn't...
This time it’s not a movie
On TV, two national landmarks--the World Trade Center and the Pentagon--look like the aftermath in the film "Independence Day" or some other end-of-the-world science fiction epic. But this time the...
Pearl Harbor revisited
You are driving down North Capitol Street toward downtown Washington, D.C., when you see war on the horizon--and you are heading right into it. The familiar announcer's voice on the...
Is the frenzy over sharks justified?
"Are there sharks here, Dad?" My son, cautious 12-year-old that he is, asks that question every time we visit an ocean. My answer is passed on from the family elders...
U.S. should have stayed put
So, the United States is getting criticized for walking out of the United Nations conference on racism in Durban, South Africa? Look who's talking. Among our critics, for example, was...