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Coming: Even more warrantless FBI searches
On May 9, FBI Director Robert Mueller strongly recommended that Congress reauthorize the 2008 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendments Act by the end of the year.By Nat Hentoff , June 02, 2012
Horse racing warrants attention for problems
With the thoroughbred I’ll Have Another having won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness and aiming for horse racing’s Triple Crown, the June 9 Belmont Stakes, is the subject of much speculation (not to mention wagering).By Bonnie Erbe , May 24, 2012
Even belated honesty can bring political gain
We begin this week a new periodic effort to show how we can all help drive some of the hate out of what has already become the Hate Politics of 2012. Try demanding that your side take the lead by launching a new initiative — not to attack the other side, but correct a few egregious lies, distortions or deceptions. Just to prove your candidates still deserve your votes.By Martin Schram , May 24, 2012
You can’t reason with crazy
Following the comprehensive failures of President George W. Bush, conservatives faced a hard choice: rethink or go crazy. For too many, the election of Barack Obama appears to have made it, so to speak, a no-brainer. Millions have chosen the comforts of delusion, envisioning the ordinary give-and-take of politics in a democracy as an apocalyptic struggle between good and evil.By Gene Lyons , May 11, 2012
Voters need to say ‘no’ to obstruction
Two of the most sage politics watchers of our time are congressional scholars Norm Ornstein of the (mainly conservative) American Enterprise Institute and Thomas Mann of the (more Democratic than not) Brookings Institution. Together they’ve written and just released a book called “It’s Even Worse Than It Looks.” It is about our broken, dysfunctional, nonfunctioning partisan political system.By Bonnie Erbe , May 10, 2012
Can we wind down the ‘war on terror’?
It is late April, and as America’s president you are about to be reacquainted with the buck-stopping burden of working at the narrow end of the vast global funnel that dumps all that is known and menacing about terrorism threats in your inbox.By Martin Schram , May 10, 2012
With serious talks, Gingrich elevated GOP race
Watching Newt Gingrich’s graceful and low-key withdrawal from the presidential race last week, it was hard not to think back to January in Columbia, S.C., when he drew a wall-to-wall, fired-up crowd to celebrate his blowout victory in that state’s primary.By Byron York , May 09, 2012
The Corps, and core values
Where to start with Douglas MacArthur? To say that he was general of the Army? To note that he was superintendent of West Point? To recall his famous exit from the Philippines and his even more famous return? To cite his role in the occupation of Japan? To refer to his time commanding U.N. troops in the Korean War? To reflect on his firing by Harry Truman? To quote his remarkable “just fade away” speech, interrupted numerous times by applause, on Capitol Hill?By David Shribman , May 08, 2012
‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’
Remember the sci-fi cult classic “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”? The 1956 movie is about a small town where extraterrestrial “pods” take over the townspeople. Even pillars of the community change into zombielike clones, as revealed by their blank stares and abnormal impulses.By Diana West , May 08, 2012
Soda ban part of bigger issue
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has bestirred a dustup over what one might think is a minor yet symbolic policy change. He wants to ban people on food stamps (a.k.a. the federal SNAP program) from using them to buy sugar-sweetened beverages in New York City.By Bonnie Erbe , May 07, 2011
Curious talk of deficit hawks
I am sorry to report that my old pal, Professor Marmot Sinecure of Groundhog University (formerly College) in Punxsutawney, Pa., has gone over to the dark side.By Reg Henry , February 17, 2011
Real spies treated like Hollywood fiction
Just how entertaining was that Russian spy ring story that came in with a flurry of late-June arrests and went out with a Russo-American agent swap last weekend?By Diana West , July 20, 2010
Republicans working up alternative ideas
With as few as 20 percent of voters identifying themselves as Republicans in major polls, the GOP is in a bad way, for sure. But is it dead?By Morton Kondracke , May 19, 2009
Rolling out the jokes
So there stood President Obama, wilting in heavy robes in 100-degree heat at the Sun Devil Stadium, joking about not receiving an honorary degree in exchange for giving the commencement address.By Anne McFeatters , May 17, 2009
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