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by john kass chicago tribune
(Friday, July 3, 2009)
It’s amusing to watch the Washington political establishment feign shock, now that President Barack Obama’s reform administration has used a clay foot to vigorously kick one inspector general and boot another out the door. » Read story.
by jane musgrave cox newspapers
(Friday, July 3, 2009)
I’ve long ago forgiven airlines for charging me an extra $15 to satisfy my need to pack my clothes in a suitcase when I travel. While I sometimes miss those free bags of peanuts, these days I just stick my nose in a magazine when flight attendants hawking $7 snack packs squeeze down the aisle. » Read story.
Get the governor on the phone!
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
(Friday, July 3, 2009)
SOMETIMES things are just meant to be. Or maybe not meant to be. And it seems that Miss Wilburette—great, big, scrumptious-looking thing that she is—just wasn’t meant to be bacon. » Read story.
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
(Friday, July 3, 2009)
State cannot afford bill Say good-bye to air conditioning, Arkansas. According to President Obama, your energy bill will “necessarily skyrocket” with passage of his cap-and-trade plan. The House of Representatives passed the plan and it will soon go to the Senate. » Read story.
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
(Friday, July 3, 2009)
YOU KNOW what we’d like to see just once before we shuffle off this mortal coil or get shipped to cyberspace? (Whichever comes first.) We’d like to see the next High-Ranking Politician Caught in Compromising Position—and you know there will be a next one—handle his highly personal problem the old-fashioned way: Tell us to mind our own danged business. » Read story.
(Friday, July 3, 2009)
A few years back, author Brooke Allen published an article in The Nation magazine called “Our Godless Constitution.” The article opened with a cheap shot at then-president George W. Bush as a non-reader who somehow had learned the Orwellian lesson that a lie told often enough becomes believable. » Read story.
Everyone’s looking for an ideal weight
By Meredith Oakley
(Friday, July 3, 2009)
Sigh. Another holiday weekend, another pound. Those stories in the women’s magazines of my youth were right: If you don’t lay off the calories in your 20s, you’ll pay for it with fasting and exercise in your 30s. » Read story.
natan sharansky in the los angeles times
(Thursday, July 2, 2009)
Once again, the world is amazed. As with the seemingly sudden appearance of the Solidarity movement in Poland in the 1980s, or the gaudy, grand-scale collapse of the Soviet empire at the end of that decade, the massive revolt of Iranian citizens has elicited the unmitigated surprise of the free world’s army of experts, pundits and commentators. » Read story.
A narrow but signal victory
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
(Thursday, July 2, 2009)
IN WHAT one hopes will be a landmark decision, the Supreme Court of the United States has decided that all Americans have civil rights—not just those belonging to certain specified classes, minorities, or some other arbitrary category. » Read story.
jawad al bolani in the washington post
(Thursday, July 2, 2009)
As the United States shifts its attention from Iraq to Afghanistan and other issues of grave importance, none of us can be lulled into believing that Iraq is a mission accomplished. » Read story.
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
(Thursday, July 2, 2009)
Plane a casualty of globalism Seems we are having trouble building an airplane. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner has yet to make its first test flight and is two years behind schedule. According to Kitty Pilgrim on “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” pieces and sections built and assembled overseas—out-sourced—arrived incomplete and/or not to specification. » Read story.
By Gene Lyons
(Thursday, July 2, 2009)
With respect to Gov. Mark Sanford, it’s probably always a mistake for a Puritan to visit Latin America. » Read story.
How to pass an energy bill
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
(Wednesday, July 1, 2009)
HERE’S HOW to get a dubious bill into law, or at least past the U.S. » Read story.
By Paul Greenberg
(Wednesday, July 1, 2009)
With the summer heat starting to cover these latitudes like a horse blanket, it’s definitely time to update this annual list of heat-beaters. » Read story.
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
(Wednesday, July 1, 2009)
Reform will give more options The health insurance industry has not treated us well. They may charge some people much more than others for essentially the same coverage. They may cover certain medical services for some people and not for others. Some insurance companies almost routinely deny or delay payment of claims to try to avoid payment. » Read story.
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