BY KENNY BELFORD Normally you wouldn't think much of the political affiliation of any mayor, but Tulsa's Dewey Bartlett is making the case it matters...

BY JIM HIGHTOWER You know what we need to juice up the performance of our weak economy? Viagra. Yes, America needs a new Viagra, specifically targeted to stiffen backbones – in particular, the limp backbones of Barack Obama’s team, as well as the flaccid spines of Democratic congressional leaders. Where’s the drug industry when we […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH Like most Americans, I haven’t seen “The Hurt Locker,” but I was still rooting for Kathryn Bigelow to claim the Best Director statue. This is, after all, 2010 – a little late in the day for “first women,” particularly in an industry that depends on women as much as men to buy […]

BY FROMA HARROP A big chunk of rock went missing from Mount Rushmore when Paul Volcker broke away in 2008 to stand stony-faced behind candidate Barack Obama. The former Federal Reserve chairman served as a reassuring presence from an older, more orderly financial era that had been sacrificed on the altar of deregulation. Volcker has […]

BY RICHARD L. FRICKER Addressing the United Nations Security Council on Feb. 5, 2003, Gen. Colin Powell described supposed eyewitness accounts of the Iraqi government’s...