BY VERN TURNER One of my favorite pundits, Maureen Dowd, wrote a scathing piece recently reviewing Dark Dick Cheney’s interview from an upcoming Showtime program...

BY FROMA HARROP The sequester may be “dumb,” as the president says, but one thing it is, is interesting. Especially the politics. First off, it slashes defense spending, which Democrats want and most Republicans don’t. With the exceptions of Hawaii and Maryland, the deepest defense cuts are being felt in the red [or purple] states […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH I’m not your usual Rand Paul fan. But intellectual honesty is a pretty refreshing trait in Washington, and in this case, it had the added attraction of being a much-needed jolt to a sort of complacency about civil liberties under a nice Democratic administration that seems to have overtaken the left. Sen. […]

BY DAVID PERRYMAN The first live bear I ever saw was on Main Street in Kinta, OK. The year was about 1962 and the Ursus...

BY JOE CONASON The difference between a natural disaster and a disaster caused by politicians is that the latter will almost always hit the poor and the obscure most heavily, while a hurricane or a flood will at least sometimes spread the suffering more evenly. As the “sequester” unfolds in Washington, we see this same […]