05/09/2008

Kathleen Parker: Sen. Clinton’s adaptability doesn’t show her true self
All politicians adapt and mold themselves to fit their audience, but Hillary Clinton has elevated the art of identity politics to a science of morphology. 

05/08/2008

Walter Williams: Environmental doomsayers wrong in their predictions
Now that another Earth Day has come and gone, let’s look at some environmentalist predictions that they would prefer we forget.

05/07/2008

Richard Reeves: Think twice about free ride for Sen. McCain
NEW YORK — A lot of smart people have spent a lot of time trying to figure out how and why President John F. Kennedy seemed to evolve from an indecisive fool in launching the Bay of Pigs invasion of April 1961 into the cool and calm commander defusing the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962.

05/06/2008

Leonard Pitts: How can we trust justice system in America?
I want you to tell me how I can trust the justice system. Mister Attorney General, the question is for you. And you too, Ms. Police Officer, Madame District Attorney, and Mr. Judge. It is also for you, Mr. and Ms. Average Citizen.

05/05/2008

Cal Thomas: Obama’s uncertainty reveals his inexperience
While the Rev. Jeremiah Wright continues to play out in sound bites on cable TV and talk radio, it isn’t Wright who might be president. It is Barack Obama who wants that job.

05/02/2008

Kathleen Parker: White men not feeling love from Democrats
In the days leading up to Pennsylvania’s primary, white males — those knuckle-dragging, chaw-chompin’, beer-swillin’ bitter troglodytes — were suddenly the debutante’s delight.

05/01/2008

Walter Williams: Historically, smugglers can well be good people
While it’s politically popular to impose confiscatory taxes on America’s 40 million tobacco smokers, there are a number of consequences one might consider, but let’s start out with a quiz.

04/30/2008

Richard Reeves: Race cuts both ways in primary for Democrats
LOS ANGELES — Face it: “Electability” is just another way of saying Barack Obama is black. The overuse of the word right now is a way of assuring voters, Democrat and Republican, that if they do not want or could not abide a black president, they are not alone.

04/29/2008

Leonard Pitts: Johnson not best backer for Clinton
I bet Hillary Clinton wishes Bob Johnson would stop trying to help her. Johnson is the billionaire BET founder and Clinton supporter who embarrassed his candidate and himself during the South Carolina primary by clumsily attempting to inject Barack Obama’s self-confessed youthful drug use into the campaign and then clumsily denying he was doing it. To judge from his latest comments, he still hasn’t learned to engage brain before operating mouth.

04/28/2008

Cal Thomas: Concept of ‘just deserts’ making a comeback
The Supreme Court has ruled 7-2 that the death penalty by lethal injection in Kentucky, which uses a cocktail of three drugs, is not a violation of the Constitution’s prohibition against “cruel and unusual punishment.” Other states, which had placed their lethal injection methods on hold pending a court ruling, are now expected to proceed.

04/27/2008

Donna Fielder: Game puts you in the driver’s seat
I’m developing a new computer game, and I think I have a winner. It’s a cross between Everquest and Doom, with a touch of the old Monopoly board and a lot of gratuitous violence thrown in. I call it “County Seat Streets.” The computer game environment consists of four major intersections on four one-way streets, with an ornate courthouse in the middle. The main character is female, with the body of Lara Croft, Tomb Raider, and the face of Mary Horn. Real­is­tic-looking county commissioners come and go, and the players’ pieces are diminutive Mus­tangs, Beemers, Dodge Rams and delivery vans.

04/26/2008

Lesson from quake report: Be grateful for every day
It was in the 90s and sunny all weekend here in Southern California. With the start of the workweek, it’s cooled down a bit, to the comfortable 60s and 70s. Still sunny. No rain. And, oh, yes, there’s a 99 percent chance of a major earthquake in the next 30 years. Just that. I hear Pompeii had good weather, too.

04/25/2008

Kathleen Parker: Who is best becoming increasingly less clear
Just when you thought there was no one left to pander to, the three candidates for Leader of the Free World found an untapped demographic: the professional-wrestling audience.

04/24/2008

Walter Williams: GOP strategy to gain more black votes foolhardy
Dr. Thomas Sowell’s recent column, “Republicans and Blacks,” (April 10) pointed out the foolhardiness of Re­publican strategy to secure more black votes.

04/23/2008

Richard Reeves: Enough already with false TV debates
LOS ANGELES — This campaign is so over. It is hard to imagine a debate worse than the Clinton-Obama stand-up on last Wednesday night in Philadelphia.

04/22/2008

Leonard Pitts: Route to fame gets dumber every day
They wanted to be famous. Of all the troubling aspects of the Lakeland, Fla., tale of thuggery and brutality that has recently made national headlines, that’s arguably the most appalling. Not that there isn’t plenty more here to disgust any observer with a conscience.

04/21/2008

Cal Thomas: Resolve and commitment needed in time of war
Observing the testimony of Gen. David Petraeus and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, before the Senate Armed Services Committee, one profound truth came shining through.

Other Voices

04/20/2008

Donna Fielder: She was always laughing
I’d been planning to visit Aunt Polly for months.                                     But you know how it is. I was buying a house and selling a house and moving, and there was always something I needed to do. Probably there is someone like this in your life. So you understand how it was. Her real name was Wanda, but she was Polly to her two brothers and three sisters and all her nieces and nephews. I looked at her still form in the casket on Thursday and thought that she should be laughing.

04/19/2008

Ann Coulter: Obama reveals true self
The Democrats’ “Fake-Out America” adviser, Berkeley linguistics professor George Lakoff, must be beside himself. Despite Lakoff’s years spent training Dem­ocrats to “frame” their language to stop scaring Americans, B. Hussein Obama was caught on tape speaking candidly to other liberals in San Francisco last week.

04/18/2008

Kathleen Parker: Regular folks can tell a decoy from the real thing
Barack Obama seemed to have survived the blasphemous rants of his preacher and remained relatively untarnished by the perceived dissatisfactions of his privileged wife.

04/17/2008

Walter Williams: While foreign trade destroys some jobs, it creates others
Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, pandering to anti-trade activists, suggest that should they become president, they will restrict trade agreements. Before you buy into their promised paradise, there are a few trade questions you might consider.

Other Voices

04/16/2008

Richard Reeves: Obama uses knowledge of rule book to gain lead
LOS ANGELES — Last Thursday, about a year too late, I read the “2008 Delegate Selection Rules for the Democratic National Convention.” Not a fun read, I must add, which may be the reason Sen. Hillary Clinton, or her people, and most of the press, did not read or understand its 25 dense pages.

Other Voices

04/15/2008

Leonard Pitts: Corporations creep into many areas of our lives
I have no particular love for Shea Stadium. Never even been inside. From what I hear, it’s not a lovely place. Leaky pipes and “curious smells,” says one report. “A dump,” says another.

Other Voices

04/14/2008

Cal Thomas: Conversion should not be one-way street to God
Pope Benedict XVI recently baptized a man into the Catholic Church. The man, Magdi Allam, had converted from another faith.

Other Voices

04/13/2008

Donna Fielder: Grapevine is Bermuda Triangle of North Texas
The devil lives in Grapevine, Texas. Either that, or Grape­vine is a perverted joke played by a psychotic road engineer. Maybe there is not even a real Grapevine. Maybe it’s just a mass of jumbled-up highways with fake signs pointing to nonexistent areas of a fantasy town. Sort of like Oz, only with 18-wheelers instead of Munchkins on the yellow brick road that doesn’t lead to the Emerald City at all, but doubles back on itself and changes names.

Lenore Skenazy: Feed those mannequins, please
You walk into Victoria’s Secret, and the music is blaring, the decor is Bor­dello Barbie, and you find yourself caught up in a whirlwind of G-strings. Some are frilly, some silly, some are cotton-candy pink covered with red lipstick kisses, and a customer says, “What I like about the store is that the stuff isn’t trashy.” It isn’t?

04/12/2008

Life is about how you play the cards dealt to you
It was more than 30 years ago that I came home from school to find the stack of skinny envelopes, and the one fat one. We all knew what that meant. A skinny envelope meant a rejection, a “have a good life, we don’t want you, no enclosures necessary.” A fat envelope was a yes.

Obama’s grandma no racist
Since a Chinese graduate student at Columbia University, Minghui Yu, was killed last week when black youths violently set upon him, sending him running into traffic to escape, I think B. Hussein Obama ought to start referring to the mindset of the “typical Asian person.” As of Wednesday, police had no motive for the attack, and witnesses said they heard no demand for money or anything else. The Associated Press reports that the assailant simply said to his friend, “Watch what I do to this guy,” before punching Yu.

04/11/2008

Kathleen Parker: Pope offers message of freedom of religion
WASHINGTON — A pope’s visit to another nation is rarely, if ever, viewed as inconsequential, but Benedict XVI’s upcoming U.S. tour comes at a time when consequences loom larger than usual. In only three years as pontiff, Benedict has managed to ignite controversy in an already volatile religious environment, most recently by baptizing the Italy-based Muslim journalist Magdi Cristiano Allam during this year’s Easter vigil.

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04/10/2008

Walter Williams: Oath of office for president is a phony affirmation
Do any of the prospective nominees of either party deserve respect from the American people? The answer partially depends on your knowledge, values and respect for the U.S Constitution.