02/19/2010

Kathleen Parker: U.S. moral colonialism grows ugly
WASHINGTON — In a time of constant calamity and crisis fatigue, proposed legislation in Uganda to execute gays passes through the American consciousness with the impact of a weather report.

02/18/2010

Walter Williams: Teachers aid destruction of blacks’ opportunity
“Do you mean he is taller than me am?” sarcastically barked Dr. Martin Rosenberg, my high school English teacher, to one of the students in our class. The student actually said, “He is taller than me,” but Rosenberg was ridiculing the student’s grammar.

02/17/2010

Susan Estrich: May health care plague fall on both their houses
My friend Ethel is mad as hell, but she has no choice but to keep taking it. She’s mad at her health insurance company, and she’s mad at the administration and Congress. She’s equally mad at Democrats and Republicans. It’s not partisan; it’s personal.

02/16/2010

Leonard Pitts: Do country a big favor, Palin: Seek presidency
Dear Sarah Palin: I hear you’re pondering a run for the White House in 2012. Last week, you told Fox News it would be “absurd” to rule it out.

02/15/2010

Cal Thomas: Stage being prepared for GOP to take charge
At first it seemed like a great idea. President Obama, fresh from good reviews for his appearance at the House Republican retreat two weeks ago, invited Republican leaders to Blair House in Washington for negotiations on a health insurance reform bill.

02/13/2010

Donna Fielder: White stuff activates crazy gene in Texans
Breaking news: It snowed a lot on Thursday. Apparently there is an element in snow that makes Texans, especially weathermanics, crazy. The cold white stuff messes with our heads, causing irresistible urges in grownups to create snowmen, engage in snowball fights and cut doughnuts in parking lots.

02/12/2010

Ann Coulter: Just punish the guilty
The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are bristling with the news that Republicans have decided now is the time to suck up to Wall Street. As the saying goes, there is no truer friend than a Wall Street arbitrageur — they are the salt-of-the-earth, the most loyal men who ever drew a breath!

Susan Estrich: ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy cruel, outmoded
I don’t get it. Since 1993, more than 13,000 soldiers have been discharged from the military under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Countless others are effectively denied access to mental health and other services because they can’t tell.

Other voices: Time to repopulate someone’s vocabulary

Kathleen Parker: Men at best when called into action
WASHINGTON — Much time and many volumes have been devoted to Freud’s famous question — What do women want? — with little commensurate attention to the male counterpart. What do men want?

02/11/2010

Walter Williams: U.S. racial diversity difficult to put in box
It’s not at all uncommon to watch a college basketball game and see that 90 percent to 100 percent of the players are black.

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02/10/2010

Richard Reeves: Fading white majority voices fears, frustration
LOS ANGELES — My favorite “tea party” guy is Merle Firestone from Rainbow, Miss., who left home at 4 a.m. last Saturday morning to drive to Nashville. He left a note on the coffeepot for his wife saying he wanted to hear Sarah Palin at the “National Convention” of the “Tea Party.”

02/09/2010

Leonard Pitts: Blacks fight for ideals that exclude them in U.S.
It is the enduring paradox of our centuries here. It is the paradox that stood its ground at Bunker Hill, paradox that made a doomed charge on Fort Wagner, paradox that stormed San Juan Hill, advanced through the Meuse-Argonne, landed on Iwo Jima, liberated Seoul and was taken prisoner in Hanoi.

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02/08/2010

Cal Thomas: Super Bowl spot bears a priceless message
In the midst of the usual glut of Super Bowl commercials with messages about beer, cars and women with impossible bosoms, on Sunday there was one 30-second message that has some people upset, even angry.

02/06/2010

Donna Fielder: Reflection calls forth ghosts of diets past
OK, you knew it was coming, and you were right. I have been in diet denial since New Year’s Day, ignoring the pain of tight zipper distress syndrome and soaping over all the mirrors in the house. But I happened to spot my reflection in the front window of Denton County Hamburger Co. the other day on my way out with my friends Lanette and Hickory Burger (OK, my little French fry buddies were in there too) and after I finished screaming, I came to the realization that it was diet time again. Time to get to reacquainted with the gym. Time to force my mouth to form the words “chopped salad” instead of “green tomato double bacon burger” at Rooster’s. It’s cryin’ time again.

02/05/2010

Ann Coulter: Matthews, Olbermann now openly fighting over Obama
In a “Special Report” on the president’s question-and-answer session with Republicans last Friday, MSNBC’s jock-sniffers Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow produced a museum-quality show:

Susan Estrich: George Burns was right about diversity
Diversity is not just a nice thing. It isn’t just about fairness or equal opportunity. Diversity is good business, essential business, especially for companies that market to women — or are covered by them. If you have any doubt, consider the iPad.

Other voices: Time to burst Beijing’s bubble
In its first year, the Obama administration went out of its way to cater to China’s communist leadership. It publicly put human rights concerns on a back burner, delayed a presidential meeting with the Dalai Lama and did not press Beijing hard about its currency manipulation. Now it appears that effort produced the opposite of the intended effect. Rather than respond with its own gestures of cooperation, Beijing is pressing hard for more American concessions. Bursting with hubris about its emergence as a global power, it is testing to see how far a new and inexperienced U.S. president can be pushed.

Kathleen Parker: Mourning a dearth of enigma
WASHINGTON — My favorite thing about J.D. Salinger wasn’t his seminal work — or his most famous character, Holden Caulfield — but how little I knew of him, thanks to his relentless pursuit of privacy.

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02/04/2010

Walter Williams: Global warming hoax is no joke
John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, in an hour-long television documentary titled “Global Warming: The Other Side,” presents evidence that our National Climatic Data Center has been manipulating weather data just as the now disgraced and under investigation British University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit.

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02/03/2010

Richard Reeves: Obama needs to do what’s necessary
LOS ANGELES — First the news: Barack Obama is a hell of a speaker. His first State of the Union message will not change history, but it was a skillful balancing act between the winds of change he wants to ride and the sour and contradictory winds of discontent blowing across the United States.

02/02/2010

Leonard Pitts: Breeding contempt for the poor
If he’d said it of Jews, he would still be apologizing. If he’d said it of blacks, he’d be on BET, begging absolution. he’d said it of women, the National Organization for Women would have his carcass turning slowly on a spit over an open flame.

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02/01/2010

Cal Thomas: High Court should grant ‘personhood’ to fetuses
Among the interesting arguments in the recent 5-4 Supreme Court decision granting corporations First Amendment protections when making campaign contributions was the majority’s decision to effectively treat corporations as persons.

01/30/2010

Donna Fielder: Workmen learn about little lady’s true grit
I have new carpet! And new wallpaper! And new paint! My bedrooms and home office sparkle like a diamond in, uh, a jewelry store window. And all it cost me was three times the amount I budgeted for it and a week’s worth of aggravation. I blame most of that on men, of course.

Other voices: Detroit must pass test
When the 2009 Washington Auto Show concluded last February, it was anyone’s guess whether General Motors and Chrysler would survive to participate in 2010. With help from the federal government, they made it back this year — and the atmosphere for U.S. carmakers is considerably brighter than it was a winter ago.

Susan Estrich: Voters need more than Ford’s big ambition
I like Harold Ford. The former congressman and senatorial candidate from Tennessee is bright, articulate and attractive. But that doesn’t mean he should be the senator from New York.

Ann Coulter: Support free market
In the wake of the Massachusetts Miracle last week (“The other Boston Massacre”), President Obama adopted a populist mantle, claiming he was going to “fight” Wall Street. It was either that or win another Nobel Peace Prize.

01/29/2010

Kathleen Parker: GOP exploits hunting for political gain
WASHINGTON — Sure, he’s got the jutting jaw and centerfold looks. He’s got the truck. But does Scott Brown kill his own meat?

01/28/2010

Walter Williams: Self-inflicted poverty in Haiti makes crisis worse
Some expect Haiti’s 7.0 earthquake death toll to reach over 200,000 lives. Why the high death toll?

01/27/2010

Richard Reeves: Brown just latest of reality show stars
WASHINGTON — When Barack Obama of Illinois first walked into the Capitol of the United States as a senator-elect in 2004, he was greeted with the usual bowing and scraping that senators take for granted in those hallowed halls. His wife was stunned, saying, as I recall: “What will they do if you actually achieve something?”

Cal Thomas: We the people in charge
In his first comment following Scott Brown’s stunning victory in the Massachusetts special election to fill the seat of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, President Obama told the losing candidate, Martha Coakley, “you can’t win them all.”

01/26/2010

Leonard Pitts: Limbaugh, Robertson comments obscene
As babies were being pulled, crushed and broken, from the rubble. As people lay writhing on cardboard mats, gashed and moaning under the sun. As families placed their loved ones out at the curb for pickup, like garbage.

01/25/2010

Cal Thomas: McDonnell’s ideas could be base ofreborn GOP
RICHMOND, Va. — After several weeks of heavy snow and sub-freezing temperatures, the sun came out and the snow began to melt in Richmond recently for the inauguration of Republican Bob McDonnell as Virginia’s new governor.

01/23/2010

Leonard Pitts: A change to celebrate
One year after that icy Washington day when Aretha Franklin sang and John Roberts muffed his lines and Barack Obama raised his hand and swore the oath that made him president of the United States, it turns out something fundamental has changed.

David G. Blanchflower: Credit crisis creates lost generation
There is now a danger that the biggest fallout from the credit crisis is the creation of a lost generation of young people who never make the transition from school to work.

01/22/2010

Ann Coulter: No Democrat safe now
Once again, the people have spoken, and this time they quoted what Dick Cheney said to Pat Leahy. Less than two weeks ago, The New York Times said that so much as a “tighter-than-expected” victory for Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley would incite “soul-searching among Democrats nationally,” which sent Times readers scurrying to their dictionaries to look up this strange new word, “soul.”

Susan Estrich: Federalism rears head again in health fight
In 1981, Ronald Reagan’s ideologists pronounced his attack on the welfare state an expression of the “new federalism.” It wasn’t that they were against helping the poor and the needy, but that the federal government was the wrong branch of government to do it. Even the president talked about it. People, myself included, wrote papers.

Kathleen Parker: Time to give Satan a vacation
WASHINGTON — Tragedy often brings out the best in some people. And sometimes, it brings out the worst. Please direct your attention to Exhibits A and B, Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh.

01/21/2010

Walter Williams: Manmade global warming a religion
Manmade global warming, for many, is an Earth-worshipping religion. The essential feature of any religion is that its pronouncements are to be accepted on the basis of faith as opposed to hard evidence.

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