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Friday, June 14, 2013 - 12:50pm
Attorney General Eric Holder's meeting with journalists and media rights advocates, including me, began in the way many Washington conversations do, with negotiations as to what was to be "off the record."
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Friday, June 14, 2013 - 12:40pm
The revelation that the federal government has spied on millions of supposedly private phone and Internet communications makes President Obama's headache over the IRS targeting of conservative groups seeking tax exemptions seem a...
Friday, June 14, 2013 - 12:30pm
Hardly a driver
Is now alive
Who passed on hills
At 75
-- Burma-Shave
Once upon a time, advertising in...
Friday, June 14, 2013 - 12:10pm
Here's an old riddle: A boy and his father are in a car crash and the father is killed instantly. The boy is airlifted to the best hospital in the region and prepped for emergency surgery by one of the top surgeons in the country...
Thursday, June 13, 2013 - 6:30pm
Climate change may one day cause us to run low on food. Scientists don’t like to talk about it, but there’s a chance that the disruption we’ve caused by burning fossil fuels may even render life on Earth no longer...
Thursday, June 13, 2013 - 6:20pm
I never paid much attention to the food stamp debate in Congress before. But I’m on food stamps myself these days, so I’m tuning in this time around.
Officially called SNAP — the Supplemental...
Thursday, June 13, 2013 - 6:10pm
It was a kneejerk reaction to a kneejerk reaction. That's my assessment of Rep. Bobby Rush's incendiary assault on Sen. Mark Kirk's gang-fighting proposal.
Rush, a Chicago Democrat, slammed suburban...
Thursday, June 13, 2013 - 6:00pm
The U.S. economy may have undergone a sea change in the past quarter-century - with workers' incomes shrinking while major shareholders' incomes soar - but the drive among our corporations and government for more free-trade...
Thursday, June 13, 2013 - 5:50pm
In this graduation season, I thought I'd share the best advice I ever received: You can't make a mistake before you're 30.
Granted, there are a few things wrong with this advice.
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Thursday, June 13, 2013 - 5:40pm
It looks as though we jackals of the “lamestream media” won’t have Michele Bachmann to kick around anymore.
With just a hint of Nixonian rancor in her voice, she announced — via a lengthy...
Thursday, June 13, 2013 - 5:30pm
"Spread the word about President Obama's plan to provide high-quality preschool for every kid in America," twittered the White House on Wednesday. We all know that nothing on the planet compares to the awesome power of...
Thursday, June 13, 2013 - 5:20pm
In the unlikely event that Mark Pryor wins re-election as Arkansas' senior U.S. senator in 2014, he should send New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg a thank-you gift. Something like a sugary 44-ounce Big Gulp or a case of Dr. Pepper...
Thursday, June 13, 2013 - 5:10pm
Who would have thought after all these years that the Republicans would turn to Richard Nixon for political advantage?
That's what GOP congressmen appear to be doing in their current effort to equate the...
Thursday, June 13, 2013 - 5:00pm
Rape without consequence starts early in the military, if you believe the woman in a case now wending its way through the U.S. Naval Academy.
A female midshipman says she was raped by three football players at an...
Thursday, June 13, 2013 - 4:50pm
So, are you convinced yet? Do you need any more proof that college presidents are not qualified to run a major entertainment industry like college football and men's basketball? That whatever their academic and fundraising skills...
