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Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 11:50am
When the storm of administration scandal first hit President Obama, he offered a good impersonation of Claude Raines in "Casablanca," expressing shock that gambling was going on in Rick's saloon. His verbal outrage at the snooping of...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 11:40am
I was 12 years old during Sam Ervin's Watergate hearings, and watched them over the course of a long, hot summer, a time when I seemed to register the startling fact that my parents weren't infallible and grownups did not necessarily know...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 11:30am
The IRS is being investigated and heads are rolling since word leaked that the agency was applying extra scrutiny to certain groups' applications for tax-free 501(c)(4) status. I got a glimpse of the added work that some were being forced to...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 11:20am
In the service of what I'm about to write, an admission I'm loath to make: I watch "The Voice."
It gets worse. I watch "American Idol," too.
Not whole seasons. Not even whole episodes. If I may brag a little, no one...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 11:10am
I went to New York last week to cover the TV presentations for the new season, shows like "Scandal," "Shark Tank" and a faltering "American Idol."
I may as well have stayed here.
You know that the faltering...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 11:00am
I just spent a day in this northeast Syrian town. It was terrifying - much more so than I anticipated - but not because we were threatened in any way by the Free Syrian Army soldiers who took us around or by the Islamist Jabhet al-Nusra fighters...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 10:50am
Is there a shadow of a chance that bipartisan middle-ground common sense could be applied to solve pressing issues of America's housing future?
A housing commission formed by the Washington-based Bipartisan Policy Center has a plan, formed...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 10:40am
As it must come to all American presidents, it seems, Barack Obama's policy agenda is being crowded out of the headlines by the imperative of damage control against administration scandal.
The allegations of incompetence or worse in the IRS...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 10:30am
The first time I talked to Mark Kleiman, a drug policy expert at UCLA, was in 2002, and he explained why legalization of marijuana was a bad idea. Sure, he said, the government should remove penalties for possession, use and cultivation of small...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 10:20am
At great political peril, George Ryan did the right thing.
Not to canonize the man. After all, the then-governor of Illinois was later imprisoned on corruption charges.
But that doesn't change the fact that, in 2000, stung that 13 inmates...
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 10:10am
Julia Trigg Crawford of Direct, Texas, is the manager of a 650-acre farm that her grandfather first bought in 1948. The farm produces mostly corn, wheat, and soy. On its north border is the Red River; to the west is the Bois d’Arc Creek....
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 10:00am
We know American politics are dysfunctional. But after a week of scandal obsession during which the nation's capital and the media virtually ignored the problems most voters care about -- jobs, incomes, growth, opportunity, education -- it...
Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 4:50pm
Bubbles can be bad for your financial health - and bad for the health of the economy, too. The dot-com bubble of the late 1990s left behind many vacant buildings and many more failed dreams. When the housing bubble of the next decade burst, the...
Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 4:40pm
From reports, the entrance was what one imagines of a drug lord who isn’t used to waiting for a table in Guadalajara. Only this was in Washington.
Stepping out of the elevator, a wedge of bodyguards shoved people out of the way, one...
Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 4:30pm
The story of three girls grabbed from the streets of Cleveland and caged in their neighborhood for some 10 years demands scrutiny beyond expressions of shock. We can't let this gruesome tale of Ariel Castro allegedly imprisoning, impregnating...
