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GOP, DEMOCRATS BOTH GUILTY OF BENDING CAMPAIGN MONEY RULES TOO FAR

August 18, 2021 at 5:04 p.m.

A friend recently observed that it is quite a shame that politicians, caught taking campaign dollars from questionable sources, responded by giving the money back. "Why give it back?" my...

LINGUISTIC APARTHEID?

August 18, 2021 at 7:49 p.m.

If the Oakland, Calif., school board wanted to bring attention to itself, it found a brilliant way to do it. All it had to do was make itself the first...

THERE REALLY IS A `SANTA’

August 18, 2021 at 6:05 p.m.

Kids don't want to know anything. They want to know everything. My 7-year-old son Grady floored me recently with just such an unsettling question: "Dad, does Santa Claus really exist?"...

TIGER WOODS TEACHES COLORFUL LESSONS

August 18, 2021 at 9:31 p.m.

The amazing Eldrick "Tiger" Woods has been playing golf--and winning--since he could stand up and hold a club. He has won more amateur and professional titles than any 20-year-old in...

PROTECTING US VOTERS FROM OUR WORST IMPULSES

August 18, 2021 at 5:25 p.m.

Quite a few prominent supporters of California's Proposition 209 have their shorts twisted in a knot over a federal judge's action to block the Nov. 5 passage of their beloved...

POST-SEASON REVIEW: A `SOCCER DAD’S’ POLITICAL AGENDA

August 18, 2021 at 6:44 p.m.

Autumn soccer season has ended for the children's leagues around the nation's capital and (Bulletin! Stop the presses!) Grady Jonathan Page, this columnist's 7-year-old son, has tied for high-scoring honors...

RACIAL VOTING IS STILL A REALITY

August 18, 2021 at 4:24 p.m.

Among the recent election's most pleasant surprises was the re-election of five black members of Congress whose districts had been redrawn by order of the Supreme Court to eliminate their...

THE INJUSTICE OF FITTING THE `PROFILE’

August 11, 2021 at 2:21 p.m.

My friend Ray Hanania has a problem that is indicative of our times. He looks like a terrorist. His accent is pure Chicago, which is where he was born and...

SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN THE NEW MILITARY

August 18, 2021 at 8:31 p.m.

It was a rifle. It felt quite foreign in my hands. But, then, I was in basic training camp, where much was quite foreign to a young draftee. A rifle?...

RACIAL DISHARMONY IS BACK ON THE SCENE. CAN THE NATION RECOVER?

August 18, 2021 at 8:10 p.m.

One day the editors of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette were having their usual morning news meeting when they noticed something curious. "Every one of the major stories of the day was...

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