India-Pakistan rapprochement? Terrorists, beware.
Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:00 am PDT
 The Christian Science Monitor - This week's sit-down between the prime ministers of Pakistan and India may not have removed mountains of suspicion and hostility between these two rivals, but their meeting may have leveled a few foothills. Full Story | Top |
As ye 'so,' so shall ye speak
Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:00 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - So, how did an innocuous little word – so – come to be a scaffolding on which we hoist our conversations, and without which we can barely begin a sentence? How did it edge out all potential linguistic contenders and plunk itself at the forefront of our thoughts – sometimes prior to any evidence of thought? Full Story | Top |
Race, Lies, and Health Scares
Sun, 2 Aug 2009 10:26 am PDT
The Nation - The Nation -- It'd be nice to think that the recent surge in overtly racist rhetoric on the right has been a case of random opportunism, provoked by the coincidence of a wealthy black Harvard professor yelling at a white cop who arrested him in his own home. Full Story | Top |
Obama Allows US to See Color
Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:00 pm PDT
RealClearPolitics.com - Barack Obama did not herald in a "post-racial America." In fact, the trope betrayed how we confine race to superficial terms. It's the same reason Stephen Colbert has made a standing joke of not being able to "see color." Color is with us. And we cannot get past race by not directly looking at it. Full Story | Top |
Dems Outraising GOP in Congressional Swing Districts
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:00 pm PDT
 RealClearPolitics.com - As Democrats gear up for 2010, they face a daunting historical fact: since Abraham Lincoln, only two newly-elected presidents have seen their party gain seats in Congress in their first midterm election. Full Story | Top |
Obama's 'teachable moment' on race
Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:00 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - President Obama hoped that out of the July 16 arrest of a black Harvard professor by a white police officer would come a "teachable moment" – about better listening, about improving relations between minorities and law enforcement, about common ground. Full Story | Top |
Reflections on race
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:00 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - Editor's note: The so-called beer summit at the White House consists of three men, Cambridge police officer James Crowley, Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., and President Obama. Full Story | Top |
POLITICAL CALCULUS
Sat, 1 Aug 2009 04:57 pm PDT
David Shribman - Here are some numbers that you need to remember as you watch President Barack Obama and Congress wrangle over a blizzard of figures at the heart of a proposed dramatic overhaul of the way Americans receive their health care: 372-33, 77-6, 307-116 and 70-24. Full Story | Top |
BRING ON THAT SOCIALISM
Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:57 pm PDT
Richard Reeves - NEW YORK -- The headline of the Gallup Poll released last Friday was: "Seniors Most Skeptical of Healthcare Reform -- More seniors think reform law would be harmful, not beneficial, to them." Full Story | Top |
An Educational Moment
Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:00 am PDT
Susan Estrich - "They don't know that you teach at Harvard when you're at Fenway Park," my friend Harry Edwards used to say about living in Boston in the late '70s. Back then, Boston did more than its share to earn a bad reputation among black professionals. Full Story | Top |
Tell Israel: Cool the Jets!
Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:00 am PDT
Pat Buchanan - Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, who is wired into the cabinet of "Bibi" Netanyahu, warns that if Iran's nuclear program is not aborted by December, Israel will strike to obliterate it. Full Story | Top |
Gilder Throws Down a Gauntlet
Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:00 am PDT
Mona Charen - Charles Murray, no slouch among public intellectuals, described him as the most underrated public intellectual in America today. Full Story | Top |
MTV Acts Responsibly?
Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:00 am PDT
Brent Bozell III - MTV specializes in the kind of "reality show" that would have you believe all young Americans are spoiled, profane, and crazed about alcohol and sex. Full Story | Top |
BIDEN SINGS OFF-KEY DURING TRIP TO UKRAINE, GEORGIA
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:57 pm PDT
Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- Before the inauguration of Barack Obama, five would have got you 50 that Hillary Clinton, so long the wailing Greek chorus to her husband's problems, would now be the one who talked too frivolously overseas and caused problems for the new president. How wrong one can be! Full Story | Top |
Need a Student Loan?
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:06 am PDT
The Weekly Standard - The House Committee on Education and Labor is having a busy summer. (Everybody in Washington is having a busy summer!) Earlier this month, for example, one of its essential subunits--the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education and Healthy Families and Communities, or SECESEHFC--held lengthy hearings to determine new ways the United States Congress might accomplish one of its many important goals: the "Prevention of Bullying." Full Story | Top |
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