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Rutgers Women Should Be Heard, Not Used
Tweet Share on Facebook April 13, 2007 CommentEnough already. I'm tired of hearing Imus apologizing. I don't want to hear the word closure one more time. I understand that hip-hop recording artists say bad things, too. Yes, the culture is too coarse. Sure, we've moved forward in many ways, but not enough. Yes to all of that.
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Rutgers Women Are Role Models
Tweet Share on Facebook April 10, 2007 CommentTo finally watch the women of the Rutgers basketball team today was to put a face on the controversy over Don Imus's despicable comments. They were as classy as Imus was trashy: willing to meet with him, expressing their feelings, allowing us to understand why they are such winners. As someone today said, "No one can make you feel inferior unless you allow that." And they are clearly not going to allow that.
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Winning the Money Primary: More Vital Than Ever
Tweet Share on Facebook April 3, 2007 CommentIt's startling, in a way, that a relatively unknown former governor of Massachusetts can raise $21 million in three months for a fledgling presidential campaign. Or that Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is very well known, can raise $26 million–and then transfer another $10 million from her Senate campaign bank account, for a grand total of $36 million to spend. Think of it this way: Clinton has already raised $5 million more than the amount raised by all Democrats put together at this time in 2004. Whew.
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Dealing With the Reality of Cancer
Tweet Share on Facebook March 29, 2007 CommentFirst, Elizabeth Edwards announces that her breast cancer has returned and spread to her bones. Next, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow announces that his colon cancer has returned and spread to his liver. Yet, instead of treating this grim news as a death sentence, each patient has responded with a fight and a clear sense of direction: They're going to go on with their lives, and they're not just going to wait around for the cancer to win.
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Incompetence Reigns in Gonzales Flap
Tweet Share on Facebook March 20, 2007 CommentIf the Justice Department–and its leader–are to be held accountable, it should be for one thing: incompetence. The bungling of a simple proposition–U.S. attorneys serve at the pleasure of the president–could not get much worse. U.S. attorneys can be fired at any time, and while the start of the second term may be a strange time (it's more likely to be done when a president takes office in the first place), it's not totally out of the question.
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An Identity Crisis for Republicans
Tweet Share on Facebook March 13, 2007 CommentJudging from the CBS/New York Times poll released yesterday, Republican primary voters are having a real identity crisis. They've got about eight candidates running–and still counting–and yet 57 percent wish there were more choices. They're worried that the party has drifted away from the principles of Ronald Reagan. The only issue that unites Republicans, in fact, is the enemy: the Clintons.
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A Verdict That Leads to the Veep
Tweet Share on Facebook March 7, 2007 CommentIt took four years to investigate and then 10 days for jurors to finally decide the fate of former Cheney Chief of Staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby. And when they did, they delivered a verdict that shook the White House–leading right to the vice president's office.
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Al in All His Glory
Tweet Share on Facebook February 28, 2007 CommentThere he was, in all his glory–and his Ralph Lauren tux–accepting an Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth. He was not the old Al Gore we have come to know who, well, bores us. He was funny. He was genuinely happy. He wasn't debating about putting Medicare money in a lockbox. He was THE darling of Hollywood; no more No. 2. And what about that 2000 presidential race that Democrats are so mad at him about? Ah, never mind.
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This Political Addict Needs Detox
Tweet Share on Facebook February 20, 2007 CommentA confession: I am a complete political junkie. I love this stuff. The campaign trail, the candidates, their policies (yes, their policies), their foibles, their interaction with voters, the whole thing. So count me addicted.
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The Libby Case: Waiting for Cheney
Tweet Share on Facebook February 9, 2007 CommentAnyone can be forgiven for losing track of what's going on in the perjury trial of Scooter Libby. After all, it's about who told what to whom and when. The fact that a covert CIA operative's name was leaked to the press–as it turns out, inadvertently by Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage–is not even the matter at hand, although it was the reason a special counsel was appointed in the first place.
