07/03/2009

Ann Coulter: So much for wise Latinas
With the Supreme Court’s decision in Ricci vs. DeStefano this week, we can now report that Sonia Sotomayor is even crazier than Ruth Bader Ginsburg. To recap the famous Ricci case, in 2003, the city of New Haven threw out the results of a firefighters’ test — which had been expressly designed to be race-neutral — because only whites and Hispanics scored high enough to receive immediate promotions, whereas blacks who took the test did well enough only to be eligible for promotions down the line.

Susan Estrich: Story of Jackson’s death no thriller
Is there still a revolution about to happen in Iran? Is my state going to run out of money tomorrow, and start printing IOUs? Can the crazy North Koreans really attack Hawaii? Do we care? The short answer to all the above questions is — who knows? What I can tell you is that the traffic on Sunset near Michael Jackson’s house is backed up. Again.

Kathleen Parker: GOP must purge self of racism
WASHINGTON — Rusty DePass, the South Carolina Republican activist who infamously “joked” that an escaped zoo gorilla was probably an ancestor of Michelle Obama’s, has learned the meaning of “hell to pay.”

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07/02/2009

Walter Williams: Trust in government will lead to our undoing
Why did the founders of our nation give us the Bill of Rights? The answer is easy. They knew Congress could not be trusted with our God-given rights.

07/01/2009

Richard Reeves: Happy days will return to America once again
LOS ANGELES — The word “recession” became part of my vocabulary in 1958, when I dropped out of college to look for a job. It was a tough year, particularly if your resume was as thin as mine. Working as a lifeguard, selling records at a department store or lugging material around at an ironworks did not impress many employers.

Guest Column / Gretchen Bataille
The Legislature made important investments in higher education this session that will allow the University of North Texas to gain ground and get ahead.

06/30/2009

Susan Estrich: People in the middle confused on recovery
I always love it when politicians start talking about “the American people” believing this or that, as if we all do and they know it. Years ago, we nicknamed my friend Francie’s mother “The Nation” because she was so fond of speaking for it.

06/29/2009

Cal Thomas: The voice claims another victim
The first thing that should be acknowledged about South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s admission to an extramarital affair is that it could happen to any of us. That is not an excuse (and no, it has not happened to me, or to my wife). Every married person has heard the voice; the one that says you deserve something “better.”

Leonard Pitts: The tragedy of ‘Thriller’
I got to interview Michael Jackson only once, at the family home in Encino, Calif. This was on the occasion of his 21st birthday, and I remember thinking that for a guy approaching a milestone, he didn’t seem very happy. Truth is, he seemed tired. Not from fatigue or exertion. It was an existential tired, as if he felt worn down by the simple act of being.

06/27/2009

Donna Fielder: Thickening the plot to the point of no return
I don’t see any reason why I couldn’t be a TV writer. How hard could it be?

Ann Coulter: Obama: Let them eat ice cream
On Iran, President Obama is worse than Hamlet. He’s Colin Powell, waiting to see who wins before picking a side. Last week, massive protests roiled Iran in response to an apparently fraudulent presidential election, in which nutcase Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner within two hours of the polls closing. (ACORN must be involved.)

Susan Estrich: Governor Sanford’s shattered fantasy
Spare me the tears, OK? If you want me to respect the privacy of your stupidity, don’t expect my sympathy. And whatever you do, I don’t want to hear about your agony. South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s admission that he spent the last five days crying in Argentina provided us with one of those moments to wonder how it is that people can get so far with so little judgment. I know the old explanation that men don’t always think with their brain, but as always, it is the part that isn’t about sex that is so mystifying.

06/26/2009

Kathleen Parker: One bullet to create the voice of opposition
WASHINGTON — Every revolution needs a unifying symbol, and members of Iran’s opposition movement now have theirs.

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06/25/2009

Walter Williams: Vicious policies in the name of diversity
Ward Connerly, former University of California regent, has an article, “Study, Study, Study — A Bad Career Move” in the June 2 edition of Minding the Campus (www.mindingthecampus.com), that should raise any decent American’s level of disgust for what’s routinely practiced at most of our universities.

06/24/2009

Richard Reeves: Words count for more than actions
LOS ANGELES — The New York Times and CBS News headlined and broadcast last week that their polling indicated Americans have more confidence in President Obama than they do in his programs — especially when it comes to health care and the federal budget.

Cal Thomas: Bulldozing excess growth
There are perhaps dozens of small towns and failing neighborhoods beginning to resemble ghost towns. We’ve all seen them if we get off the interstate and drive down state or county roads, once-thriving Main streets or into blighted neighborhoods.

06/23/2009

Leonard Pitts: Grand ol’ bigots
The modern GOP was created in 1965 with a stroke of Lyndon Johnson’s pen. If that is an exaggeration, it is not much of one. When Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, he made a prediction: In committing the unpardonable sin of guaranteeing the ballot to all citizens regardless of race, he said, he would cause his party to lose the South “for a generation.”

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06/22/2009

Cal Thomas: Broadcast news from Obama’s bedroom
Not so long ago in a vastly different media environment there were such things as journalistic ethics.

06/20/2009

Donna Fielder: Kids’ capers keep parents on their toes
She sat in the jail lobby waiting for a magistrate to set bail for her daughter. I hadn’t seen her in a long time, but I recognized the pained expression of an unhappy parent.

Kathleen Parker: Something rotten in U.S.
One thing we can conclude from David Letterman’s bad jokes about Sarah Palin: He hasn’t flown commercial in a while.

Susan Estrich: Only fair to keep seeking gay rights
Rep. Barney Frank, the first member of Congress to be re-elected after coming out, is right in telling gays not to abandon the president.

Ann Coulter: Coverage of case a crime
Whether it is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Weather Underground, Central Park rapists, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Jim Jones and the People’s Temple, welfare recipients, Palestinian terrorists, murderers, abortionists, strippers or common criminals — liberals always take the side of the enemies of civilization against civilization.

06/19/2009

Kathleen Parker: Zahra now a beacon for women everywhere
WASHINGTON — There’s a “new” old name suddenly in circulation that is both filled with ancient history and ripe with a revolutionary spirit for today’s game-changing events. Zahra.

Leonard Pitts: No expiration date on hate
WASHINGTON — I’ve always liked this place. “Enjoy” is not a word one uses in connection with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, but I’ve always found a visit here conducive to contemplation and reflection.

06/18/2009

Walter Williams: Live free or your society is doomed
“Live Free or Die” is the title of author and columnist Mark Steyn’s speech at Hillsdale College, reproduced in Imprimis (April 2009), a Hillsdale publication that’s free for the asking. Canadian born, now living in New Hampshire, Steyn has had firsthand experience with socialist tyranny in his home country that is rapidly becoming a part of America.

06/17/2009

Richard Reeves: Nominee Sotomayor looks like one of us
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Growing up in Jersey City in the late 1950s, I thought the United States was an Italian country governed by the Irish. So it was a rather pleasant surprise for me when I moved out into the country and realized that this was a nation of white Protestants, governed by white Protestant men, for white Protestant men.

06/16/2009

Leonard Pitts: All-access invasion can change anyone
We’ll discuss Susan Boyle’s mental state in a moment, but first let me show my ignorance. A few weeks back, a reader asked what I thought of Jon and Kate. I had never heard of them.

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06/15/2009

Cal Thomas: Media’s worship of president like a cult
A criticism heard during the early years of the Bush administration was that the media were “in the tank” for Bush, fearing to question his foreign and domestic policies in the aftermath of 9/11 because of his then-high approval numbers and concern that they would be labeled unpatriotic.

06/14/2009

Kathleen Parker: President delivers message of peace
WASHINGTON — If it ain’t broke, the saying goes, don’t fix it. And so it was that the Muslim world got to hear the 2009 version of Barack Obama’s 2004 Democratic convention speech.

06/13/2009

Susan Estrich: Life about how we play cards we’re dealt
I have hated graduations for most of my life. High school was my best, and it wasn’t great: I lost out as valedictorian by one-tenth of a point, and the guys who finished third and fourth behind me both got into Harvard and I didn’t.

Ann Coulter: Welcome back, Carter
Well, I’m glad that’s over! Now that our silver-tongued president has gone to Cairo to soothe Muslims’ hurt feelings, they love us again! Muslims in Pakistan expressed their appreciation for President Barack Obama’s speech by bombing a hotel in Peshawar this week.

06/12/2009

Kathleen Parker: Palin’s team cannot get ball rolling
WASHINGTON — Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska and GOP “It” girl, can warm up the Republican base like a hot toddy in a duck blind. But further inside the party organization, the air is a little nippy.

06/11/2009

Walter Williams: More control by Congress cuts rights of citizens
Philosopher Bertrand Russell suggested that “Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.” And, it was Albert Einstein who explained, “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

06/10/2009

Richard Reeves: World War II prison camps an example to use today
BERLIN — On Sept. 14, 1948, Capt. Kenneth Slaker of Lincoln, Neb., was making his sixth flight as a Berlin Airlift pilot, bringing food and fuel to the World War II enemy capital, which was blockaded on land and on rivers by the army of the Soviet Union.

06/09/2009

Leonard Pitts: Good day America, I’m your boogeyman
I am your scapegoat. I am your boogeyman. Brown-skinned, kinky-haired, black man, me. So I was not surprised (it was just another day at the office) last week when a white woman from suburban Philadelphia called police from her cellphone, claiming she had been locked in the trunk of a Cadillac by two black men.

06/08/2009

Cal Thomas: Recent GM bankruptcy signals end of an era
Fifty years ago, those words set to music each week on the old NBC The Dinah Shore Show reflected an America and an automobile industry that is no more.

06/07/2009

Donna Fielder: Farewell, old friend
It was a silly name but fun to say, and I often played with the syllables to draw them out from two to three: Pig-il-ly Wig-il-ly. When my family moved to Denton, the Sherman Drive location was the nearest grocery store, and I’ve spent many hours in there pawing through the tomatoes for that perfectly ripened specimen and feeling up the cantaloupes.

06/06/2009

Susan Estrich: It really is Obama’s way or the highway
“What I have no interest in doing is running GM,” President Barack Obama said on Monday, as he assumed ownership of the beacon of free enterprise.

Ann Coulter: Score: 49 million to 5
In the wake of the shooting of late-term abortionist George Tiller, President Barack Obama sent out a welcome message that this nation would not tolerate attacks on pro-lifers or any other Americans because of their religion or beliefs.

06/05/2009

Kathleen Parker: Problem not message, but messenger for the GOP
WASHINGTON — Prior to recent events, I intended to write about the GOP’s message problem with the headline: “Shoot the Messenger.” Sunday’s murder of abortion doctor George Tiller makes my title inappropriate, but the idea remains relevant.

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