By: John F. Harris
Presidential politics is about storytelling. Presented with a vivid storyline, voters naturally tend to fit every new event or piece of information into a picture that is already neatly framed in their minds.
No one understands this better than Barack Obama and his team, who won the 2008 election in part [...]
BY MICHAEL ROSENBERG
This is not in the Bill of Rights, but I think all Americans have a right to screw up their own marriages. I don’t know if Tiger Woods has exercised that right or not. We might never know. It is, frankly, not our business.
By now, you have surely heard the story: Woods backed [...]
The crisis in Dubai has been a sharp reminder that there are still more aftershocks of the credit crunch to ripple around the globe. When Dubai World announced it was seeking a six-month debt standstill, the fear was this was a Lehman Brothers of the Middle East ushering in a dangerous second [...]
Editor’s note: Ruben Navarrette Jr. is a member of the San Diego Union-Tribune editorial board, a nationally syndicated columnist and a regular contributor to CNN.com. Read his column here
San Diego, California (CNN) — When I speak to college students, I always push two messages: If you work hard, take risks, leave your comfort zone [...]
Nasa’s James Hansen was the first to point out the perils of climate change to the US Congress. Here, he begins a heated debate with experts from around the world, from China to the threatened Maldives, and argues that our leaders must be shaken out of their complacency. But will they show enough courage at [...]
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: November 28, 2009
What should we make of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who apparently killed 13 innocent people at Fort Hood?
Here’s my take: Major Hasan may have been mentally unbalanced — I assume anyone who shoots up innocent people is. But the more you read about his support for Muslim suicide bombers, [...]
The health-care bills in Congress are irredeemable, writes columnist Charles Krauthammer. They should be tossed out. Then do health care the right way — one reform at a time, each simple and simplifying, aimed at reducing complexity, arbitrariness and inefficiency.
By Charles Krauthammer
WASHINGTON — The United States has the best health care in the world — [...]
The underreported story about the hacked e-mails (regarding global warming research) is a reminder that at least a few scientists are disingenuous about manmade global warming.
Equally significant, why are the media not exploring the motivation behind the e-mails? Are the scientists who wrote them abandoning the “scientific method” because they’re concerned about losing government grants, [...]
LA Anti-Establishment ExaminerCharles Nichols
The older I get the more I am convinced that nothing really changes. Last week in Arkansas a woman called the police to take her 10 year old daughter to a youth shelter. When the police arrived they found the little girl on the floor screaming and crying. When the police started [...]
Dallas Darling.
The other day, while gazing out a window, a sudden motion caught my eye. A hawk had just swooped into my back yard after losing its prey. As it chased the injured and much smaller bird, it reminded me of another bird of prey, the eagle, which is symbolic of the United States. In [...]
