BY JOE CONASON If President Barack Obama’s response to the economic crisis is imperfect, as he acknowledges, and if the Congressional Democrats leave much to be desired as well, then Americans can at least be thankful that the nation’s fate has not been consigned to the frozen minds on the other side of the aisle. […]

BY FROMA HARROP President Obama has vowed to curb the number of earmarks, also known as pork, in future spending bills. A commendable promise, had his number been zero. Unfortunately, the president wants to deal with an unsavory dish by cutting the portion size. Earmarks are pet projects that lawmakers stuff into spending bills. There […]

BY KAREN WEBB Dear Rep. Dan Boren and House Second Amendment Support Group: I regret to inform you that 11 citizens of rural Alabama were assaulted...

BY SUSAN ESTRICH It has a way of sneaking up on me, like the unhappy anniversary it is. Who knew? The first March 7 was a Monday. I was a law student, and my father died in a hospital bed where he had been hovering between life and death for 10 terrible days. Terrible for […]

BY JIM HIGHTOWER David Brooks was upset. You can tell when this conservative and rather-professorial columnist for The New York Times gets upset, because his words almost sag with disappointment – you can practically hear the tsk-tsks and the heavy sighs in each paragraph. When most commentators on the right see things that offend them, […]