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Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 4:40pm
Logic, thy name is not Ted Cruz. The very junior senator from Texas is a well-credentialed windbag, with degrees from Princeton and Harvard Law, and a stint clerking at the Supreme Court. After a few months in Congress promoting Ted Cruz, smartest...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 4:30pm
Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., says the “coverup” surrounding the tragic incidents in Benghazi is “bigger than Watergate, bigger than Iran-Contra, bigger than the Pentagon Papers.”
It’s interesting that Inhofe doesn...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 4:30pm
Four Americans died in Benghazi, Libya: people with unrealized hopes, unfinished plans, relatives who loved them and friends who will miss them.
But let's focus on what really matters about the attack and its aftermath. Did Hillary Clinton...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 4:20pm
No job now, provides the pay,
To let me find, a place to stay.
Many folks with big incomes are responding to the tensions of America’s growing economic inequality by moving into gated communities. This isn’t new, just...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 4:20pm
Arriving in Yemen last week, I had an experience I'd never had before. I drove from the airport into Sanaa, the capital, on the main thoroughfare, through a raging torrent of water. I was staying in the old city, a United Nations World...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 4:10pm
It's hard to spend a couple of days in Atlantic City and feel anything but alarmed by the explosion of casino gambling in Maryland.
It wasn't just the early morning bra left behind in the elevator that made me cringe. Or the completely...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 4:10pm
Max Baucus' reputation as one of the most ethically challenged members of the U.S. Senate is well earned. The Montana Democrat's decision to retire in 2014 can't help but improve the chamber's sorry record of self-...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 4:00pm
Elizabeth Warren does great email. One payoff of my pittance of a contribution to her grass-roots funded campaign -- I regret not contributing more -- is that I am regularly alerted by the new Massachusetts senator to the favoritism of our...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 3:50pm
I don't have a dog in the Senate fight in Massachusetts between 18-term Rep. Ed Markey, D, and Republican Gabriel Gomez, a former Navy SEAL. But if energy policy matters to voters up there, they should hold Markey accountable for not adapting...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 3:40pm
The 79-year-old corporate gadfly Robert Monks, the former top federal regulator over America’s pension system, earlier this year opined that Corporate America operates “for the personal enrichment and glorification of its manager-kings...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 3:30pm
One consequence of presidential nominee Mitt Romney's loss last November was an internal autopsy on the reputation of the Republican Party itself. Questions were raised whether its "brand" had been seriously damaged as...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 3:30pm
On its face, the murder of Americans in Libya, including our ambassador, has absolutely nothing to do with the inappropriate relationship former President Bill Clinton had with a White House intern. But politically, that's another story.
The...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 3:20pm
Two of the hot topics trending on Twitter Tuesday were Angelina Jolie and the IRS.
Beauty and the Beast.
Jolie stunned the world with a New York Times op-ed article explaining why she had decided to have a preventive double mastectomy once she...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 3:10pm
The most dangerous job in the world, outside war zones, isn't that of an undercover police officer or a firefighter or a bullfighter or aerialist. It's sewing garments - particularly in Bangladesh.
The death toll in the April 24 collapse...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 3:00pm
Let's try to come up with some positive thoughts about the recent political fortunes of the Obama White House:
- Economy's getting a little better. Deficit's dropping.
- Bill Clinton had a really terrible second term and look how...
