Opinion Columnists Headlines

National pastime turning into Nationals addiction

Sun, 27 May 2012 19:49 EST

It was our much-anticipated quarterly lunch with Tim Kurkjian, baseball analyst extraordinaire, wherein George Will and I bathe in a constant flow of obscure statistics, Kurkjian oddities and ribald anecdotes, like the one about the Red Sox beat writer...

Yesterday's fears have no future

Sat, 26 May 2012 21:22 EST

I, too, sing America.

Obama out of order with his approach to Supreme Court

Sat, 26 May 2012 21:20 EST

Novelist John Grisham could hardly spin a more provocative fiction: The president and his surrogates mount an aggressive campaign to intimidate the chief justice of the United States, implying ruin and ridicule should he fail to vote in a pivotal case...

On immigration, it's hard to tell Obama from Romney

Thu, 24 May 2012 21:32 EST

President Barack Obama recently gave a commencement address but some in his audience were intent on giving him a lesson.

Support of gay marriage makes NAACP relevant again

Wed, 23 May 2012 20:01 EST

With its support for same-sex marriage, the NAACP has done more than strike a blow for fairness and equality. The nation's most venerable civil rights organization has made itself relevant again.

President Obama's battle plan is to make war on money

Tue, 22 May 2012 20:37 EST

Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, N.J., came across as a moderate, sensible Democrat when he said on "Meet the Press" Sunday that negative political ads are "nauseating to the American public. Enough is enough. Stop attacking private equity. Stop attacking...

Are banks too big to fail and too big to regulate?

Mon, 21 May 2012 22:12 EST

Like a sequel to a bad horror movie, the "great vampire squid" is back.

Obama's same-sex marriage stance boxes him in

Sun, 20 May 2012 21:00 EST

There are two ways to defend same-sex marriage. Argument A is empathy: One is influenced by gay friends in committed relationships yearning for the fulfillment and acceptance that marriage conveys upon heterosexuals. That's essentially the case President...

Politics of popularity

Sat, 19 May 2012 21:05 EST

A presidential race recently focused on high school has come to resemble a popularity contest of the same vintage.

GOP cannot fix problems it won't face

Sat, 19 May 2012 21:05 EST

And another one bites the dust.

Support of drug war stirs jeers from Latino audience

Fri, 18 May 2012 08:38 EST

When you're addressing a crowd, there are those not-so-subtle indicators that your message is not getting through. For me, the hint came when, during a recent talk in which I declared my support for the Mexican drug war, a woman in the audience yelled:...

You can't hurl the word 'bigot' in the name of tolerance

Tue, 15 May 2012 22:39 EST

President Barack Obama emerged from his ideological closet last week when he said, "Same-sex couples should be able to get married." Obama supported same-sex marriage in 1996. He opposed same-sex marriage, however, in 2004 and 2008 and right up until...

Public opinion shifting on same-sex marriage issue

Mon, 14 May 2012 17:12 EST

As a political issue, same-sex marriage is like playing 3-D chess: Opponents need to move quickly, because the game board is tilting slowly but steadily in favor of the other side.

45 years later, Israel poised to repeat pre-emptive strike

Sun, 13 May 2012 22:35 EST

In May 1967, in brazen violation of previous truce agreements, Egypt ordered U.N. peacekeepers out of the Sinai, marched 120,000 troops to the Israeli border, blockaded Eilat (Israel's southern outlet to the world's oceans), abruptly signed a military...

Scary predictions for a growing nation

Sat, 12 May 2012 21:45 EST

Close your eyes and picture 110 million obese people waddling around America's sidewalks. You'll probably want to keep your eyes closed.