Syndicated Columns

Initiative on Latin America is lacking
February 10, 2010
If President Barack Obama’s foreign aid budget request for 2011 is a reflection of his priorities in world affairs, it looks like the president is saying “adios” to Latin America.
Driver’s plight an ominous sign for Iraq
February 9, 2010
Where is Salam? My trusted Iraqi driver/fixer/ sidekick through seven years of covering Iraq has disappeared into Iraq’s murky prison system.
Obama has opportunity in Congress
February 8, 2010
It was toward the end of President Obama’s riveting visit on Jan. 29 with the House Republicans in Baltimore — a rare 90 minutes of candor on both sides that produced the most fascinating and revealing politics in memory — when Rep. Peter Roskam of suburban Chicago was called on for a question.
Edwards’ ego took campaign to new low
February 8, 2010
Looking back, the $400 haircuts and the ostentatious mansion should have been a giveaway that John Edwards really was the pretender his detractors snickered about.
No love lost on U.S. economy
February 7, 2010
Pay attention carefully, but above all, pay attention quickly. This month we’re finally talking economics. Maybe that’s because this is the shortest month of the year. It’s also the month that includes Valentine’s Day, so full of romance and hope, and the release of the president’s federal budget proposal, so full of sobriety and despair.
Blacks in military an enduring paradox
February 7, 2010
It is the enduring paradox of our centuries here. It is the paradox that stood its ground at Bunker Hill, paradox that made a doomed charge on Fort Wagner, paradox that stormed San Juan Hill, advanced through the Meuse-Argonne, landed on Iwo Jima, liberated Seoul and was taken prisoner in Hanoi.
Ad carries pro-life message
February 6, 2010
In the midst of the usual glut of Super Bowl commercials with messages about beer, cars and women with impossible bosoms, on Sunday there will be one 30-second message that has some people upset, even angry.
Congress must step up on budget
February 6, 2010
The economic collapse of 2008 and 2009 did so much damage to the United States that only now can we begin to measure the devastation.
Ad carries pro-life message
February 6, 2010
In the midst of the usual glut of Super Bowl commercials with messages about beer, cars and women with impossible bosoms, on Sunday there will be one 30-second message that has some people upset, even angry.
Despite Democrats, the people prevail
February 5, 2010
“I am not an ideologue,” protested President Obama at a gathering with Republican House members last week. Perhaps, but he does have a tenacious commitment to a set of political convictions.
Sitter’s ‘flexibility’ stirs dilemma
February 5, 2010
My husband and I were away last week — working, but away. My mother was watching the kids, but she also works. So it was particularly important, I told my new but already somewhat spotty babysitter, that she turn up on time, every day.

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