Here’s the situation coming down the stretch: The Affordable Health Care Act is winning by a nose. That would be the one-vote majority by which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld the constitutionality of the most sweeping reform of health care since Medicare. A Reagan appointee, of all…
The long campaign continues. It's not quite a lifetime long, like Gandhi’s against violence. Nonetheless, many miles have passed beneath my sandals as I’ve advanced my theme. For more than a quarter century each year around Thanksgiving, I have carried out a lonely and thankless campaign about sweet potatoes. Message: Think before you eat.…
As they took pepper spray in their faces, I wonder if they thought about fire hoses in Birmingham, tear gas in Chicago’s Lincoln Park, National Guard bullets at Kent State. Probably not. They thought of pain, and disbelief, the kind many felt seeing it on YouTube and on the news. …
The most amazing story of Nov. 8 was how Arizonans in a heavily Republican district ousted the state’s most powerful Republican lawmaker. Russell Pearce, president of the Senate, was replaced by a comparably conservative Republican. The key distinction, however, may be that the man who beat him wasn’t quite as angry. …
Thousands of unemployed Americans got a form letter from Congress last week: “Dear Unemployed American: Your benefits have run their course. Sorry about that. We realize that this is the worst economy in decades and you might think we helped make it the way it is. But extending your benefits might give…
At first glance, nothing justified the remake of Footloose. Then again, if we examine the political landscape, whether the issue is dancing or this nation acting like an adult on the world scene, we all need to be warned of the price of provincialism. Know without a doubt that parochialism and regression are…