The Casey Fly in the Clinton Ointment
| The Casey Fly in the Clinton Ointment Posted: 01 Apr 2008 01:50 AM CDT Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey has finally entered the high stakes game of presidential endorsements after months of studied neutrality. And he did it with some uncharacteristic pizzazz. The... |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2008 01:43 AM CDT WASHINGTON -- Chill out. More specifically: "We're going to win this election if we just chill out and let everybody have their say." Thus, Bill Clinton's advice to Democrats who are... |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2008 01:42 AM CDT If the Democratic contest lasts until the convention in late August, so what? That leaves two months for Democrats to "coalesce" around their candidate and fight the Republican. And even that shorter... |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2008 01:40 AM CDT There was a real irony in the recent intervention by the Federal Reserve System to provide the money that enabled the firm of JPMorgan Chase to buy Bear Stearns before it went bankrupt. The point was... |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2008 01:38 AM CDT WASHINGTON -- Have you noticed something similar about those Barack Obama campaign surrogates and the media soothsayers who have started a drum-beat to force Hillary Clinton out of the Democratic... |
| The Insanity of Bush's Iraq Policy Posted: 01 Apr 2008 01:36 AM CDT WASHINGTON -- Quite a "defining moment" in Iraq, wasn't it? At this rate, John McCain is going to be proved right: The war will last a century. That is indeed what McCain said, by the way, no... |
| Should We Fight for South Ossetia? Posted: 01 Apr 2008 01:35 AM CDT In echo of Warren Harding's "A Return to Normalcy" speech of 1920, George Bush last week declared, "Normalcy is returning back to Iraq." The term seemed a mite ironic. For, as Bush... |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2008 01:34 AM CDT Democrats seemed determined to convert their sunny 2008 forecast into a perfect storm, which only can be diverted if either the approaching Obama front or Clinton front dissipates soon or changes... |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2008 01:33 AM CDT "America doesn't have an easy time dealing with race," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told the Washington Times in an interview last week. Rice added that members of her family have "endured... |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2008 01:32 AM CDT Nicholson Baker, a supremely talented novelist, has written a surprising book of nonfiction titled "Human Smoke." It is composed primarily of snippets taken from contemporary newspapers in the run-up... |
| The News Media vs. The Innocent Posted: 01 Apr 2008 01:30 AM CDT Years ago, Ray Donovan, Ronald Reagan's Labor Secretary, was prosecuted for corruption, only to be acquitted. After the verdict, Donovan asked plaintively, "Which office do I go to to get my... |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2008 01:28 AM CDT Republicans think their nominating race ended too quickly. Democrats fear theirs may go on forever. And though the public likes the probable presidential nominees, polls show widespread... |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2008 01:28 AM CDT It could be an item on a David Letterman Top Ten List of "How to Know Your Mayor is Headed for a Major Scandal" -- he's known as the "Hip-Hop Mayor." That's what they call Detroit Mayor Kwame... |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2008 01:25 AM CDT Egyptian pop singer Shaaban Abdel Rahim, famous for his songs attacking Israel and praising Osama bin Laden, plans to release shortly a new song endorsing Barack Obama for president. Though Shaaban... |
| If Jeremiah Wright is a Prophet, Isaiah Wasn't Posted: 01 Apr 2008 01:10 AM CDT Were the controversial comments made by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright "prophetic"? That is the claim made by a large number of black and white clergy, by the head of the United Church of Christ and by... |
