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Promoting Peace, a Hope at a Time

In an astonishing moment of clarity, the Nobel Peace Prize was given this year, not to the current excuse for Henry Kissinger, but to a man who understands the very basis and structure of peace.

Mike Chertoff Invites You to Pick a Target

The tragic story of Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle’s plane crash into a New York City highrise, painful as it is to his family and friends, is not about Cory Lidle.

The Difference Between Winning and Watching the Other Guy Lose

The Impossible Dream is fast replacing the American Dream. Which is why the country must invent a new political party to replace the aging and toothless Democrats. We can do better and vote for change are meaningless phrases by a party bankrupt of solutions.

A Little Song, a Little Dance

My old daddy would boil to see what these neo-con-men have done to his beloved Republican Party. My party as well, until they left me drop-jawed in the Reagan years, trying to recognize which shell covered the pea of our nation’s greatness.

Seeing Things, Hearing Things, That Only He Can See and Hear

Keith Olbermann nailed it. He is perhaps the only TV commentator with either the courage, the independence or the vocabulary to point out the difference between what this president hears and says against the reality of what has been heard and said.

Stepping Up to the Plate in October

Political pundits, breathless as baseball writers, predict and hedge, then boldly go where their particular sense of safety dictates. Polls show America is fed up. Currently, because the Republicans have been in charge of things for the past six years, Americans are fed up with Republicans. Just a fad, take my word. As soon as we give our hearts to Democrats, they’ll break them.

“The Way It Is, Not the Way Somebody Would Hope It Would Be”

If there has been an administration in recent (or even ancient) memory that has based (1) an entire foreign policy and (2) the waging of war on the ‘way they hoped it would be,’ please e-mail me and name it.

Protections From Washington’s ‘Ethical Undertow’

The House Government Reform Committee, an ironic choice of title for a standing committee of the House of Representatives, published a report. Good enough, that’s what committees are supposed to do in lieu of actually accomplishing anything.

Wal-Mart Does What Congress Won’t

But then, of course, roles are reversed so maybe it’s not so strange. The world’s producers bow to Wal-Mart, while Congress bows to the world’s producers. An entirely different dynamic operates between beggars and choosers. Unfortunately, our Congress has beggared itself to the lobbyists in recent years and made a nice little business of being paid off.

In a Rush to Make Things Worse

While some of us were teeing it up for a round of early fall golf, or watching our kids play football, the triumvirate of McCain, Graham and that other guy who was married to Liz Taylor, were off chipping more corners off their deal with the White House.