Commentary: Israel seeks calm but fears the future
| |Friday, Mar. 15, 2013
The Israel Defense Force (IDF) has long been vaunted as the preeminent military power in the Middle East. But Israel lost the eight-day war last November in the Gaza Strip, both Israelis and the Gaza Palestinians believe.
Commentary: Coverage of Obama may take harder edge in second term
| |Friday, Mar. 15, 2013
Second terms have a habit of being unkind to presidents and one wonders whether the pattern will apply to Barack Obama, whose treatment by the press has been unusually respectful, to put it mildly.
Commentary: Mayor Bloomberg and the supersized soda menace
| |Friday, Mar. 15, 2013
Perhaps you remember when Dr. Doom conquered the world.
Or perhaps you don’t. Sadly enough, even in this day and age, not everyone is comic-book literate.
Commentary: Six ways the Catholic Church is just like the Republican Party
| |Friday, Mar. 15, 2013
One might think that a political party and a religious organization would not have that much in common. But the Republican Party, in the wake of its failure to retake the White House, and the Catholic Church, in the aftermath of a series of scandals, actually have a lot in common. Here are at least six similarities:
Commentary: Pope Francis could impact politics in Latin America
| |Thursday, Mar. 14, 2013
One of the biggest questions about Pope Francis is whether he will be a politically activist pontiff who — much as he has done in Argentina — will be a thorn in the side of leftist-populist governments throughout Latin America. Some say he will.
Commentary: Jeb Bush's views on immigration keep shifting
| |Thursday, Mar. 14, 2013
Yet another member of the Bush family has demonstrated an uncanny ability to flinch on immigration.
Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, has long advocated a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, roughly in line with current thinking of a bipartisan group in Congress. Yet in a new book he has written with Clint Bolick, “Immigration Wars,” Bush has flip-flopped on the question of the path to citizenship.
Commentary: Falkland Islands redux
| |Thursday, Mar. 14, 2013
The Argentine-British dispute over the Falkland/Malvinas islands is once again heating up, and the latest events point at a new diplomatic setback for Argentina’s legitimate claims over the South Atlantic islands.
Commentary: U.S Census quits using 'Negro' and it's about time
| |Wednesday, Mar. 13, 2013
When I was born my mother named me Merlene, a compilation of her middle name, Merle, and an ending that must have sounded good at the time.
Commentary: GOP still doesn't get it, but thinks it can win anyhow
| |Wednesday, Mar. 13, 2013
Ever since failing to make Obama a one-term president, Mitt Romney has been trying to figure out why he doesn't occupy the White House. In a recent interview (naturally with Fox News), he blamed his loss in part on his failure to connect with minorities and his remark that 47 percent of Americans think they are entitled to a government that does something for them. He said he regretted the comment, but indicated his only error was a poor choice of words and not the sentiment behind them. Politicians say they misspoke whenever they inadvertently reveal what they really think.
Commentary: Big holes in the medical safety net
| |Tuesday, Mar. 12, 2013
Paul Chan is hopeful that the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, will improve the treatment of people who lack health insurance. That would come as welcome relief if his research is any indication of what’s happening to the uninsured right now.
