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No woman, regardless of class, is immune to attacks
About two weeks into the Plain Dealer’s coverage of the Imperial Avenue murders in Cleveland, some women from more privileged neighborhoods began to complain about the coverage.
Nov 20, 2009 | 8:10 am | Loading…
Afghanistan troop decision must be made
WASHINGTON – The more President Barack Obama examines our options in Afghanistan, the less he likes the choices he sees. But, as the old saying goes, to govern is to choose – and he has stretched the internal debate to the breaking point.
Nov 19, 2009 | 7:55 am | Loading…
Image as icon: Doubts linger over authenticity of famous Capa photograph
NEW YORK – The 20th century was 100 years of amplitude. It overflowed with barbarous fighting faiths, wars enveloping continents and graphic journalism assaulting global audiences with scenes of shocking immediacy. The Spanish Civil War, although small in terms of the number of combatan…
Nov 17, 2009 | 8:05 am | Loading…
Playing field has been changed over abortion rights
BOSTON – It was one of those small shocks that come unexpectedly in the wake of a death. Just days after the country had buried Ted Kennedy, Cardinal Sean O’Malley took to his blog to defend himself from critics attacking him for presiding over the funeral of a pro-choice senator.
Nov 16, 2009 | 8:05 am | Loading…
Saving Mother Earth, one clothesline at a time
My mom was an early environmentalist, and she didn’t even know it.
Nov 13, 2009 | 8:00 am | Loading…
House bill won’t hold up to test
WASHINGTON – While the House Democrats spent the week congratulating themselves for squeezing out the midnight passage of their version of health care reform, neutral observers were reminding them: You’ve left the job half done.
Nov 12, 2009 | 8:10 am | Loading…
Some want you to believe all is lost when it comes to climate
WASHINGTON - Intelligent people agree that, absent immediate radical action regarding global warming, the human race is sunk. That is a tautology because those who do not agree are, definitionally, unintelligent. Britain's intelligent Prime Minister Gordon Brown gives scary precision to t…
Nov 10, 2009 | 8:10 am | Loading…
Abandoning freedom: Future looks perilous for women in Afghanistan
BOSTON - It's been 11 years since I looked through a photo album smuggled out of Afghanistan by a brave young woman. "This is a doctor," she said, pointing to one picture. "This is a teacher." It was impossible to tell one woman from another under the burqas enforced by their Taliban rulers.
Nov 09, 2009 | 7:55 am | Loading…
Paid sick leave helps keep contagious workers away
In a perfect world, no working American would get sick with the H1N1 virus.
Nov 06, 2009 | 8:10 am | Loading…
Lack of jobs will mean more than Dems’ losses
WASHINGTON - A year after Barack Obama's election stirred broad hopes for change among American voters, persistent high unemployment and the spectacle of continued gridlock in Washington threaten Democratic dominance of the political landscape.
Nov 05, 2009 | 7:55 am | Loading…
Liberal thugs using disclosure to snuff political participation
SEATTLE - Conservatives here, a droll minority, say that under this city's quota system, when a conservative enters the city, one already here is required to leave. They also say Washington is actually two states: There is what you can see from atop this city's Space Needle - meaning, thi…
Nov 03, 2009 | 8:15 am | Loading…
ELLEN GOODMAN: Are women unhappy? They sure don’t long for the old days
BOSTON - Not long ago a group of writers decided to publish a book of essays we called: "Feminism Made Me Happy." It was an in-your-face title, a deliberate attempt to counter the narrative we all knew by heart. The one that kept describing how the women's movement had left us stressed ou…
Nov 02, 2009 | 7:50 am | Loading…
CONNIE SCHULTZ: Resentment does no good for middle-aged women
Last summer, I was at a reception in Washington, D.C., when a woman in her early 40s leaned in to whisper with lips so swollen with collagen they looked ready to burst.
Oct 30, 2009 | 7:55 am | Loading…
DAVID BRODER: Budgetary responsibility must become a priority
WASHINGTON - When I wrote a few days ago about the growing nervousness of moderate Senate Democrats over the approaching vote to raise the federal debt limit, I had no idea how quickly evidence of that shift in the political winds would appear.
Oct 29, 2009 | 8:00 am | Loading…
GEORGE WILL: Michele Bachmann – the other side of the story
WASHINGTON - When Marcus Bachmann came home that Saturday evening in 2000 he checked the telephone answering machine and was mystified by the many messages congratulating his wife for something. "Michele," he said, "do you have something to tell me?" She did.
Oct 27, 2009 | 8:00 am | Loading…
ELLEN GOODMAN: Seniors facing $250 moment
BOSTON - This story begins, as do so many dramas, at the box office. We are standing in line, three generations defined by a three-tier price structure: senior, adult, child.
Oct 26, 2009 | 8:05 am | Loading…
CONNIE SCHULTZ: Americans showed compassion in balloon incident
Well, how stupid were we?
Oct 23, 2009 | 8:00 am | Loading…
DAVID BRODER: Deficit-reduction commission absolutely necessary
WASHINGTON - Within the next few weeks, probably as soon as the votes on health care reform have been taken, the Senate faces the painful duty of once again raising the statutory limit on the national debt, as the House already has done.
Oct 22, 2009 | 8:05 am | Loading…
GEORGE WILL: Interesting timing for spending stimulus
WASHINGTON - As Harvard's president, Larry Summers, economist and former Treasury secretary, was a lion in a den of Daniels. The faculty Daniels, their tender feelings hurt by his occasional testiness, cowered together and declared him a meanie. Facing a faculty vote of no confidence, he …
Oct 20, 2009 | 8:00 am | Loading…
DAVID BRODER: Politics sinks to lowest of lows in New Jersey
Editor's note: Ellen Goodman is on vacation this week. Her column, which appears each Monday on the Missoulian's Opinion page, will resume when she returns.
Oct 19, 2009 | 7:25 am | Loading…
CONNIE SCHULTZ: Limbaugh’s involvement in beauty pageant sets wrong tone
Miss America officials have decided to kill off their beauty pageant.
Oct 16, 2009 | 7:50 am | Loading…
DAVID BRODER: If Obama stands firm, real change may occur
WASHINGTON - It has taken much longer than President Barack Obama hoped, but we are finally at the point where he can - and must - put his personal stamp on his main domestic initiative, the overhaul of the health care system.
Oct 15, 2009 | 8:00 am | Loading…
GEORGE WILL: Liberals have their own anger issues
WASHINGTON - Consider nature. Not the placid nature that Constable painted, but nature as Tennyson saw it, "red in tooth and claw." To glimpse a state of nature as Hobbes imagined it, where human life is "nasty, brutish and short," visit the Whole Foods store on River Road in Bethesda, Md…
Oct 13, 2009 | 8:00 am | Loading…
ELLEN GOODMAN: Texas so against gay relationships, it won’t even let gays end them
BOSTON - I suppose there is something charming about watching conservative politicians in Texas trying so ardently to preserve a same-sex marriage.
Oct 12, 2009 | 8:00 am | Loading…
CONNIE SCHULTZ: Casualty alerts a reminder of sacrifices soldiers make
Whenever she reads an online notice that another American has died in Iraq or Afghanistan, Donna Faye Caudill posts the same response: "Praying for the soldier's family."
Oct 09, 2009 | 8:05 am | Loading…
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