It’s the oddest form of echo. Not a retort. Not a reasoned rejoinder. The only way we can describe it is in terms of speech pathology. Listen, and explain it to me. Fox News host Geraldo Rivera says the issue in the Trayvon Martin tragedy is the hoodie he wore. So compelling is…
It says something that we haven’t a proper term for what likely caused Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales to do what he is accused of doing over there — the land where we sent him to war. If we just call it insanity, we risk implicating war itself. And that can’t…
“We don’t need a government health-care plan to be able to solve the problem,” quoth Rick Santorum. “What we need is a process in this country where people will have an opportunity to go out and use their resources.” Tell that this couple, Mr. Ex-Senator. A few years shy of Medicare, the…
President Obama made one too few phone calls last week. The one he made was smart and important, offering support to Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke in her courageous stand for smarter policies about women’s health. Obama’s next phone call should have been to Rush Limbaugh, just to say thanks, and to…