I learned that Claude T. Anderson had died the same way I learned that he existed--through an e-mail from a stranger. The first e-mail came from Claude himself. He began...
One can give credit to George Bush for restoring dignity to the White House. Done. One can commend George Bush for responding appropriately to the Sept. 11 Islamist attack on...
Politicians, tyrants and communists long have admired euphemism and double talk for their faculty in cloaking truth, diffusing meaning and just plain baffling the people they hope to convince, rule...
As a dictum, "blaming the messenger" has been elevated to near-iconographic status by the Roman Catholic Church, which now blames the media for this dreadful pedophilia business. Honduran Cardinal Oscar...
Newspaper readers often lament the declining quality of journalism and wonder, what happened? Two words. Human resources. Thanks in part to human resources personnel--those well-meaning, misguided individuals who view writers...
It is almost axiomatic that politicians will respond to criticism--excessively. So it seems to be even with President Bush, whose historical unwillingness to play by the rules was one of...
Aug. 8, 2001. Posted: 10:59 a.m. EDT. Congress seeks to oust President Bush following racial profiling fiasco, police state maneuvers. Congressional leaders are scrambling to begin impeachment proceedings against President...
While Jimmy Carter tours Cuba on the strong arm of the world's longest-ruling tyrant, President Bush is readying a speech to announce tougher sanctions against Cuba. For Fidel Castro, it...
Bad behavior is what gets most people consigned to Death Row, but bad luck gets them on the execution calendar during an election year. Meet Richard Charles Johnson, the most...
Just because you don't think you have a mind-control chip in your brain doesn't necessarily mean that at this precise moment 10 white men aren't seated at a round table...