May 24, 2012
The attacks on Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker by the more vitriolic liberal commentators for what he said about Bain Capital on this past Sunday’s “Meet the Press” are just as indefensible as the Republican Party’s cynical and dishonest attempt to exploit them.
May 17, 2012
Last week I believe President Barack Obama got it right when he told ABC’s Robin Roberts, “for me personally . . . I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.”
May 10, 2012
Virtually every poll in the last two weeks — Gallup, Democracy Corps, USA Today, Rasmussen, New York Times/CBS — shows that Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are in a dead heat nationally as well as in the nine battleground states.
May 3, 2012
Attorney General Eric Holder has been the subject of vicious partisan personal attacks on his integrity over the failed “gun walking” operation, “Fast and Furious.” The hypocrisy of the double standard by congressional Republicans is obvious.
Apr 26, 2012
Sometime in 1973, I first heard the name Charles Colson from my father at the dinner table. My dad, who always told me he “hated” President Nixon, told me that night that he also “hated” a man named Charles Colson, who had the title “special counsel to the president.”
Apr 17, 2012
One of the great institutions of democratic government in the world — the United States Senate — has become dysfunctional and paralyzed by partisanship.
Mar 22, 2012
Among the most hypocritical aspects of certain purist Democrats who call themselves liberals is their willingness to attack any Democrat who veers even slightly from liberal orthodoxy.
Feb 23, 2012
To watch four hours of the so-called documentary on the eight years of the Clinton presidency gave me the sensation of a report about a glass of water that is 75 percent full and 25 percent empty.