Opinion Columns

At one level, it sounds like a very bad joke. Full story »

WASHINGTON -- So you have some cash and you could use a new car and believe this is a great time to buy, particularly the Detroit kind. After all the Big Three chiefs have gone hat in hand to Congress for relief from pending financial disaster and will be back this week to present a plan on how they would spend the billions of taxpayer money. Full story »

Hey! Did you happen to notice anything different on the morning of Nov. 5, the day after the election? For instance, Nov. 4 was Election Day, and it was rather hectic, to say the least. You might have been wondering if the world would survive. But as you awoke Wednesday morning and peeped outside, the world was still standing, the sun was still shining brightly and everything seemed peaceful. Then came the realization that Sen. Barack Obama had handily won the race for the next president of the United States of America. The race had many people hot and bothered. It had gotten a wee bit ugly. Full story »

Last Thursday, we celebrated Thanksgiving, feasting on turkey, ham, mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie and many other familiar dishes. We ate too much, just like you. The cooks worked overtime to make this meal memorable. Full story »

I was crammed into a middle seat. The guy in front was practically in my lap and I had my arms drawn in tightly as I pecked furiously on the keyboard. God glanced over. "What are you working on?" He asked. Full story »

So, folks, how is he doing? With every day bringing more bad financial news, with job loss now an equal opportunity experience, with paying the mortgage each month a major hassle, we can at least be glad that Barack Obama is said to be ahead of any previous president-elect in putting together his team. Full story »

Early in what became the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes was asked if anything similar had ever happened. "Yes," he replied, "it was called the Dark Ages and it lasted 400 years." It did take 25 years, until November 1954, for the Dow to return to the peak it reached in September 1929. So caution is sensible concerning calls for a new New Deal.< Full story »

I’m a grandchild of the civil rights movement. I can’t remember it personally, but my mom can. She was not on the front lines of the struggle, but it nonetheless defined so much of her early adulthood: the slow realization that the way she had been raised in Jim Crow Alabama was wrong, the growing understanding that her Christian faith was incompatible with the racist views of the family she loved, etc. Full story »

The aroma of my mom's roast, potatoes and gravy invaded every square foot of our small, modest home outside the desert town of Victorville, Calif. She had just taken it out of the oven and sat it on the table, to the delight of her family and guests. Full story »

In 1892, a Massachusetts court ruled that a policeman’s speech rights had not been violated by a law forbidding certain political activities by officers. Full story »

Last week one of my students expressed a conventional sentiment about colleges and politics: with her daughter approaching high school graduation, she was wondering aloud if she and her husband would be able to invest their child with conservative principles sufficient to resist the liberalism that will confront her in the classroom when she goes off to college. Full story »

As President-elect Barack Obama takes his time to make his first Hispanic appointment, the Latino leaders who supported him are beginning to squirm -- not because they all expect job offers, but because they fear they could end up with egg on their faces. Full story »

Barack Obama says that we have to "jolt" the economy. That certainly makes sense, if you take the media's account of the economy seriously -- but should the media be taken seriously? Full story »

As Republicans sort out the reasons for their defeat, they likely will overlook or dismiss the gorilla in the pulpit. Full story »

We should be ashamed of how poorly we have treated President Bush. Full story »