Articles filed under Opinion
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War? What war?Jan 04, 2010 10:00 pm - Janet Napolitano - former Arizona governor, now overmatched secretary of homeland security - will forever be remembered for having said of the attempt to bring down an a...
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It's Obama's ball nowJan 03, 2010 10:00 pm - As the new year commences, two facts emerge: George W. Bush is officially retired as the fault-guy for the nation's ills, and Barack Obama owns the game. Whether he want...
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It really ought to be called 'illegal'Dec 29, 2009 10:00 pm - Those on the pro-immigrant left have shown considerable courage in taking on Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Minutemen vigilantes, border walls and an endles...
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Lieberman should get credit for role passing health billDec 29, 2009 10:00 pm - Instead of vilifying Sen. Joe Lieberman, Democrats should be praising him for saving health care legislation from defeat. And liberal criticism of the Senate's health bi...
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A partial truce in the religious warsDec 28, 2009 10:00 pm - It is 2009's quiet story - quiet because it's about what didn't happen, which can be as important as what did. In this highly partisan year, we did not see a sharpening ...
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2009: The year of living fecklesslyDec 27, 2009 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON - On Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not just reject President Obama's latest feckless floating nuclear deadline. He spat on it, declaring ...
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A warning Obama should heedDec 27, 2009 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON - On the day before Christmas, President Obama found two presents under his tree. One was the health care reform bill passed that morning by the Senate, a his...
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Quietly sizing up the last four decadesDec 26, 2009 10:00 pm - It is one of those moments when I feel like a time traveler. I look out the airplane window and watch a young woman on the tarmac directing our jet to its gate. As she w...
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The Grinch who stole immigration reformDec 26, 2009 10:00 pm - Just in time for the holidays, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has given Latino voters a valuable gift: clarity. So much of politics is masked in smoke and mirrors. If you co...
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The emptiness of double triumphsDec 26, 2009 10:00 pm - It was serendipitous to have almost simultaneous climaxes in Copenhagen and Congress. The former's accomplishment was indiscernible, the latter's was unsightly. It would...