Three Symbolic Bibles for Obama’s New Oath
“The arc of the moral universe is long,” Martin Luther King said in 1965, “but it bends toward justice.” On January 21,...
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A Silver Bullet Solution for Gun Control
It takes a split second and pennies to end a life but hours of surgery and months of rehab, often hundreds of thousands of dollars to...
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Elegy for a Poet of JFK, MLK and Bygone Times
On Thanksgiving Day, I suddenly realized it was also November 22, the anniversary of JFK’s assassination. Missing from the family...
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Why the GOP Won’t Get Hagel’s Scalp
The campaign to embarrass the President over his Defense nomination is weighed down by GOP history. How can a party that erased George...
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McCain’s 12-Year War Against Chuck Hagel
Unseen in the cloud of preemptive dust over the nomination for Secretary of Defense is more than a decade of fallout from a...
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Upside-Down Government by Losers
Sunday morning TV is like looking through the wrong end of a telescope: Diminutive figures jockey for attention while bloviating...
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The Tea Party’s Joe McCarthy Moment
“At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” In 1954, an aging lawyer named Joseph Welch asked that question of Sen. Joe...
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“Titanic” Score: Boehner Outpolls Iceb...
John Boehner is reelected Speaker of the House, second in line of succession to the presidency, with only a ripple of disaffection...
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What (Almost) Everybody Lost at the Fiscal Cliff
The Capital Bowl ends in overtime with John Boehner being sacked in his own end zone as Tea Party teammates led by Eric Cantor...
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Hillary in the Hospital and Political Eye
Only in the ugliness of today’s Washington could a life-threatening medical emergency be seen in terms of a career move. Hillary...
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