The indictment that wasn’t
It has been 18 days since a liberal web site reported Karl Rove had been indicted and given 24 hours to get his affairs in order. …
The horror of war
To date, 73 journalists have died in Iraq, more media casualties than an in all of World War II. Many more have been wounded. These deaths are in addition to…
A love affair that wouldn’t die
This is the story of a love affair, one that lasted more than 60 years in this dimension and now for eternity in another. …
Subsidized daycare is not an answer
Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., once said the conservative interest in life begins at conception and ends at birth. By that I took him to mean that religious conservatives are furiously…
Congress has only itself to blame
It is safe to say that everybody involved was stunned by the reactions to the FBI's raid on a congressional office and the continuing repercussions. And it is safe to…
Time to rethink the concept of war
It's time for a national conversation on war. The avalanche of bad news from Iraq and Afghanistan is a signal that we need a bipartisan consensus on when to resort…
Best to read the fine print in Senate immigration bill
There is a lot of fine print in the 600-plus-page bill passed this week. It's true, as senators say, that the legislation would erect more border barriers and seek to…
Frist: FBI Congressional raid justified
Unlike his over-reactive House colleagues, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist says the FBI had a legal right to raid a corrupt Congressman's office and feels the issue has been "put…
A politician with nothing to lose
Asked to describe his attitude in his last few months in office, Sen. Mark Dayton cited a line from the 1960s song "Me and Bobby McGee." "Freedom's just another word…
More bad news from Iraq
Just when President Bush was trying to accentuate the positive in Iraq and declare a new beginning in the war on terror, a rash of bad news comes from multiple…
