May 19, 2013
11:16 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
11:23 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
11:16 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
5:22 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
11:23 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...
May 14, 2013
5:18 p.m.
Reagan made a joke at one of the correspondents dinners that was too close to truth to be funny. He said that to some degree he envied Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, because with the threat of nuclear war, a mistake by the president would result ...
May 14, 2013
5:18 p.m.
I suppose after 20 years of running my company, I’ve developed the notion that for most jobs in this country you really can learn “on the job.” I’ve also realized that the one thing you should never learn “on the job” ...
May 14, 2013
5:18 p.m.
As I explain in an editorial today (inspired in part by this letter), the “Benghazi is worse than Watergate” meme, besides being totally without logic, does a real disservice to Nixon’s hard-earned reputation for extra-constitutional abu...
May 13, 2013
5:23 p.m.
I thought the news was out as of last week, but it is now being reported that the Justice Department was obtaining phone records for the AP in what seems to be part of the attempts to intimidate the media as I described last week. Add the Justice Departme...
