BY ARNOLD HAMILTON First, it was death panels. Now, the wingnuts claim President Obama wants to “indoctrinate” America’s school children. Egad! All the nation’s chief executive...

BY FROMA HARROP Many astounding details surround the story of the California rapist who kidnapped an 11-year-old and kept her captive for 18 years. None shocks more than the raw fact that Phillip Garrido was not locked up, the key lost. In 1976, Garrido abducted and raped 25-year-old Katherine Callaway Hall. The woman says she was […]

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Don’t you wish that someone in authority, someone with an ounce of chutzpah, someone with his or her head screwed on right, would direct a few obvious, pointed, even rude questions to the Wall Street honchos who have ripped off America? Questions like: Who, exactly, in your bank directed the rip-off? Who […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH It’s been a long and ugly weekend, e-mail wise. Ted Kennedy may be gone, but the haters are still out there. Every time I said a nice word, my BlackBerry would start vibrating. “Did everyone like Ted Kennedy?” one of the Fox anchors asked me. Certainly not everyone in America. There was […]

BY JEFF HAMILTON The recent report of Sen. Tom Coburn’s Town Hall meeting in Oklahoma City reflects the waffling and subterfuge of some in the...