October 02, 2009

Health care is also a question of equality

BOSTON My favorite moment so far in the health care debate was when Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl argued against mandating maternity benefits as part of a basic...

Cap-and-Trade: A Market-Oriented Approach That Works

There is a lot of confusion and misinformation circulating about the cap-and-trade mechanism in the energy and climate legislation being debated before...


October 01, 2009

Don’t Worry—Bad Climate News Will Resume

Plateau in Temperatures Adds Difficulty to Task Of Reaching a Solution—New York Times, Sept. 23 WASHINGTON In this headline on a New York Times story...


September 29, 2009

Debate Is Mostly an Exercise in Ego Gratification

WASHINGTON What’s driving the great health debate of 2009 is not a popular clamor for universal insurance. “Many Americans are balking again...


September 28, 2009

Don’t Make Virginia Do Tenn. Two-Step

In the coming months, as health insurance reform moves down on the front page, Congress will redirect its attention to reforming our nation’s financial...

Car Title Loans: Don’t Make Virginia Do Tennessee Two-Step

In the coming months, as health insurance reform moves down on the front page, Congress will redirect its attention to reforming our nation’s financial...

Afghanistan: It’s Looking Like Vietnam Redux

CHARLOTTESVILLE Three major foreign policy decisions must be made by the Obama administration by the end of the year: (1) whether to increase U.S. troop...


September 27, 2009

Yom Kippur: The Time of Year for Soul Inventory

This time of year Jews are asked to look back and do a “soul inventory”—to seek forgiveness from those we have wronged and to grant forgiveness...

VITA: Initiative Still Makes Good Sense

Virginia’s ambitious partnership with Northrop Grumman to modernize, synchronize, and secure the state’s information technology network is...


September 26, 2009

Economy: EFCA Would Benefit Virginians

Del. James Massie’s recent op/ed suggests that the Employee Free Choice Act will adversely affect Virginia’s prosperity. On the contrary, the...


September 25, 2009

Father-Son Bond: For One Night They Cheered the Yankees Together

ALEXANDRIA And that’s the price . . . per ticket?“ It was too late. I had already committed in mind, body, and wallet. On this day, I was divulging...


September 24, 2009

ACORN: Interview With an Apostate

WASHINGTON No one was more delighted by the recent ACORN pimp ‘n’ prostitute, hidden-camera sting than Marcel Reid, the former ACORN board...

Connecting the Dots: Avoid Those Easy Generalizations About Older Americans

There’s a style of painting called pointillism where the artist uses small dots of paint on the canvas. From a distance, you see the intended image,...


September 23, 2009

. . . And Punishing China as a Favor to His Labor Friends

WASHINGTON While in Pittsburgh, a sense of seemliness should prevent President Barack Obama from again exhorting the G-20, as he did April 2 in London,...


September 22, 2009

How Do We Deal With China’s Predatory Practices?

WASHINGTON For years, American presidents have faced a China conundrum: How to deal with a country that practices predatory trade without unleashing global...


September 21, 2009

Been There, but Didn’t Do That

WASHINGTON For 11 days in late August and early September in 1995, U.S. and NATO air power defended Bosnian Muslims, who were being attacked by Bosnian...

Virginia Jobs: Clean Energy: If Not Now, When?

What does bowling have to do with climate change? A lot more than you might think. Bowling alleys use lots of lights, electricity, heating, and air conditioning...


September 20, 2009

Late Summer, We Go Wheels-Up for ‘the Good Place’

In his “Big Two-Hearted River,“ Hemingway wrote of his autobiographical Nick Adams: He was there, in the good place. We went wheels-up for...

You Judge: Obama Doesn’t Lie, He Elides

WASHINGTON You lie? No. Barack Obama doesn’t lie. He’s too subtle for that. He . . . well, you judge. Herewith three examples within a single...

News Views

There’s a lot happening on the Sports pages of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. See this week’s From the Newsroom column on page C4 in the Sports...


September 18, 2009

Civility in Politics? A Work in Progress

BOSTON For me, the real Obama moment of this back-to-work season wasn’t the speech before Congress or Wall Street. It was in the Virginia schoolhouse...


September 17, 2009

Conference Call Exemplified the Art of Lobbying

WASHINGTON This is just the beginning,“ said Yosi Sergant to participants in an Aug. 10 conference call that seems to have been organized by the...

NEA: Conference Call Exemplified the Art of Lobbying

WASHINGTON This is just the beginning,“ said Yosi Sergant to participants in an Aug. 10 conference call that seems to have been organized by the...

Incivility: To Insult, Perchance to Duel?

WASHINGTON Not so long ago, Rep. Joe Wilson’s verbal assault on the president—“You lie!“—might have produced a much different...


September 16, 2009

Debate Suffers a Candor Gap

WASHINGTON We cannot, it seems, have a candid national conversation on health care. President’s Obama speech the other night was a brilliant performance,...

DIABETES RESEARCH: Talk the Talk, and Walk the Walk

GUEST COLUMNIST One morning about two years ago, my 17-year-old son again complained of a sprained neck muscle. I told him it was unlikely the doctor could...


September 15, 2009

St. John’s’ Curriculum

Below is the reading list for freshman and sophomore students at St. John’s College. According to St. John’s, the list “had its beginnings...

Why Should We Be Grateful?

There was a New Yorker cartoon last spring picturing a nearly empty galley ship with only two slaves still pulling their oars under the grim eye of the...


September 13, 2009

Mackenzie: A Random Walk Through Events

Comments on a summer-garden variety of issues in the news . . . In a Washington Post op/ed, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin opposed a cap-and-trade energy...

Conservative Message: Speech’s Critics Opt for Stupid

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any stupider, schools across the nation decided to censor President Obama’s speech urging kids to...

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