May 23, 2013
5:13 p.m.
There are many parts of our criminal justice system that are cruel and counter-productive. A couple of weeks ago, I inveighed against one small stupid injustice: treating 17-year-olds as adults in Massachusetts’ courts and throwing them into adult ...
May 22, 2013
5:13 p.m.
On Rob’s recommendation, I’ve started reading Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield by Jeremy Scahill, which tells the story of how the U.S. created a largely secret, largely unaccountable force capable of executing targeted assassinations an...
May 21, 2013
11:15 a.m.
Gene Robinson has a strong piece today about the accelerating trend toward investigating and prosecuting journalists under the 1917 espionage act. That’s the law under which the AP phone records were subpoenaed and under which Fox News reporter Jame...
May 21, 2013
11:15 a.m.
Knowing our fearless leader, Obama will view the chance for the photo op of wallowing through the blood of more children in a public elementary school to be a great way to distract people from the corruption oozing out of his regime. Our thoughts and pray...
May 19, 2013
11:18 p.m.
My column today has my thoughts about Obama’s alleged “scandal trifecta” as of Friday morning, when I wrote it. My bottom line was “not so fast.” Big time scandals in presidential second terms grow into si...
May 18, 2013
12:01 a.m.
Climate change skeptics often shrug off the pesky facts scientists present by pointing to the big, over-simplified picture. Climate is always changing, they say. Nature goes through cycles.
True enough, but there’s nothing all-natural about the cyc...
May 17, 2013
11:14 a.m.
I’ve been thinking about Rick’s response to the notion that our first black president has gleefully presided over the lynching of a criminal suspect. What is Rick’s response? 99% like this! As if Facebook overrides the Constitution. And ...
May 16, 2013
11:17 p.m.
I’m pretty thick-skinned, but the book Dirty Wars bothered me a lot. Has kept me up nights. I decided to read it again to see if it shocked me a second time. In some ways, its worse the second time through, because I had expected that some of my rea...
May 16, 2013
5:24 p.m.
In 20 years or so of editorial writing, I’ve rarely suggested Cabinet members resign. And as I contemplate calling for Attorney General Eric Holder to step down over the seizure of phone records from the Associated Press, I hesitate just a bit.
Not...
May 15, 2013
11:26 a.m.
You won’t hear much about it from the scandal-obsessed Washington press corps, but the federal deficit has been coming down dramatically.
How dramatically? In 2010, the deficit was 10 percent of GDP. The CBO reported this week it’s now down t...
