Dubya’s fellow Repubs ain’t buying his Social Security plan
If President Bush is counting on Republicans like Rep. Shelley Moore Capito to sell his concept of Social Security reform to a skeptical public this year and to deliver a…
Anti-drinking campaign falls off the wagon
We might have learned from Prohibition, but the federal campaign against teen drinking has turned up dry. …
Losing the war on hunger
Tyranny has many expressions. They include poverty and hunger, facts of life in the developing world that obstruct the broader fulfillment of Bush's noble ambition. Yet America's modest commitment to…
Senate moves to cash in on identity theft issue
Knowing a good political issue when it sees one, a Senate committee will hold hearings on identity theft and information brokers following the revelation that a databank with information on millions…
Libs have high hopes for Dean
A year ago, an activist group from the Seattle area gave Howard Dean a thin, golden statue of a backbone. The Oscar-like award honored the former Democratic presidential candidate and…
Special treatment for a fatcat named Boeing
The Air Force improperly favored The Boeing Co. on a $4 billion contract to upgrade C-130 cargo planes, congressional investigators said Thursday.…
The invasion of privacy committee
A committee set up recently to advise the Homeland Security Department on privacy issues is little more than a group of rubber-stamping yes-men who benefit from department invasion of privacy and…
Congressional FUBAR
Before last year's election, Congress passed a Medicare drug entitlement that was outrageously, irresponsibly expensive - a budget breaker, an economy stopper - but while many in Congress admit as much, they…
New democracy, same old politics
With backroom deals and patronage promises, sharp elbows and pointed arm-twisting, a panoply of Iraqi politicos are laboring to build a national government from a fractious populous riven by ethnic,…
Civil War sites face battle for survival
America has no more than 20 years before the last of the unprotected but critical Civil War battlefields are "preserved or paved over," the president of the Civil War Preservation…
