Articles filed under Commentary
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Washington's psychological polarizationJan 14, 2015 12:01 am - As the 114th Congress begins in earnest, there are a number of things - such as tax and immigration reform and trade agreements - that political adults would like to get...
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Hyping Obama's Paris failJan 14, 2015 12:01 am - If we can be serious for a moment: The president made an error in judgment by not sending someone with a higher profile than our ambassador to join world leaders Sunday ...
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Obama's slap at FranceJan 13, 2015 12:01 am - In Paris on Sunday, the United States really led from behind - so far behind that President Obama and other important U.S. officials stayed stateside as 40 other world l...
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The politics of homicideJan 11, 2015 12:01 am - Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau; Mock on, mock on; 'tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. William Blake expressed ...
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Bittersweet story unfolds before our eyes of love, heroinJan 11, 2015 12:01 am - It was heartbreakingly touching. Jaida, 11, Mikayla, 9, and even 4-year-old Nevaeh were excited to see their picture on the front page of Friday's Daily Herald, in the a...
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Attacks on journalists are an attack on freedomJan 09, 2015 12:01 am - On Wednesday, the world was shocked and appalled by the deplorable attacks at the Paris office of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. Twelve men and women were mu...
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Al Sharpton and the narrative of biasJan 08, 2015 12:01 am - Recent events from Ferguson, Missouri, to Staten Island, New York, might prompt an observer to infer that American cops are racist and that a bigoted white populace tole...
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Are Democrats stuck in 1979?Jan 08, 2015 12:01 am - The passing of Mario Cuomo brought bipartisan tributes appropriate to a rare political figure with a developed inner life. He was Catholic educated, and it showed. How m...
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Why Scalise outrage machine misfiredJan 07, 2015 12:01 am - Democrats have tried to rev up the outrage machine over news that Rep. Steve Scalise, the No. 3 ranking House Republican, may or may not have given a speech to a white s...
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The historical distoritions that stain 'Selma'Jan 07, 2015 12:01 am - Before I came to dislike the movie "Selma," I was deeply moved by it. Twice it brought me to tears. A crane shot of Martin Luther King leading thousands of demonstrators...