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Obama's Worst Week Ever
It didn’t take much guessing to predict who was going to win – if “win” is the right word--the Washington Post&...
Get the full story >>Is the tea party over?
Has the tea party peaked? Republican lawmakers affiliated with the upstart anti-tax movement scored big in the nerve-racking debt-ceiling...
Get the full story >>Recipe for budget fights
A "sugar-coated Satan sandwich." That's what Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Missouri Democrat and chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus,...
Get the full story >>Black voters' Obama blues
It is only in comparison to today's Republican Party, divided between its old-school establishment and its tea party zealots, that today's...
Get the full story >>Breivik's real enemy: Himself
Anders Behring Breivik, the far-far-right-wing monster charged in Norway with the biggest mass murder by a single gunman in modern memory,...
Get the full story >>Juan Williams' payback time
Revenge is a dish that is best served cold, an old saying goes. Juan Williams, the Fox News political analyst who was famously fired last...
Get the full story >>Bachmann's 'submerged' benefits
She's a famous foe of "big government" in her presidential campaign. Yet Rep. Michele Bachmann says it is no big deal that her family is...
Get the full story >>When politics head toward crisis mode
Former first lady Betty Ford's funeral Thursday reminded many of us what a great person she was. She also left some timely reminders of...
Get the full story >>Britain's tabloid scandal sounds familiar
It is with a mixture of outrage and envy that an old-school newspaper veteran like me views Great Britain's newspaper hacking scandal.
Get the full story >>Sometimes justice is hard to take
As much as I tried to avoid being taken in by the drama of the Casey Anthony trial, I was jerked alert by its conclusion, the most...
Get the full story >>Obama's uncommon scold
An MSNBC commentator is in the doghouse over a mildly obscene on-air criticism of President Barack Obama. Fair enough. But to me his...
Get the full story >>Some scandals won't sit still
It's hard for a social commentator to keep up with all of the legal, moral and political lessons offered up by the still-unfolding Dominique...
Get the full story >>Dump the war on drugs
When David Simon, creator of HBO's late dramatic crime series "The Wire," heard that Attorney General Eric Holder wanted to see the...
Get the full story >>Another whack at Illinois' culture of corruption
A federal jury appeared to end former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's long-running drama when it found him guilty Monday on 17 of 20...
Get the full story >>Black hopes vs. white anxiety
Race relations have undergone a curious flip-flop. Polls show blacks feel more optimistic about the nation's future than whites, despite the...
Get the full story >>Anti-gay bullies are no joke
Americans seem to find a lot of entertainment value in watching celebrities destroy themselves. Witness, for example, the initially brisk...
Get the full story >>She's just not that into to you. Really.
An Australian demographer has found a malady that makes some middle-aged men think they are more attractive to women than they actually are.
Get the full story >>What the indicted John Edwards has already lost
Hard cases make bad law, an old legal saying goes. So, I suppose, do sad cases. The sad case of John Edwards could lead to sadder law.
Get the full story >>Citizen Cain: He's able but unelectable
To all of those readers who say I should give my attention to the rising presidential campaign of Republican Herman Cain, I am happy to...
Get the full story >>Beautiful day couldn't distract Daley from the issues
My favorite Daley moment came on a beautiful summer day during the 1996 Democratic National Convention.
Get the full story >>Obama's re-election budget
After hearing President Barack Obama's robust response to their budget-cutting proposals, Republican leaders seemed shocked to hear that the...
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About this blog
I'm an op-ed columnist who has too much to say about too much stuff to contain in my two columns-a-week. My views? I'm a proud factory-town liberal who nevertheless will surprise you from time to time - because liberals just l-o-o-o-v-e to criticize other liberals. Join the chat. I can't tell you what to think, but I'll offer you things to think about.