BY FROMA HARROP Nearly as unappetizing as the video of ACORN workers explaining how to run a prostitution business, cheat on taxes and import underage streetwalkers from Central America is the presence of Michael Moore’s mug on TV screens everywhere. Having helped throw the 2000 election to George W. Bush – moderate Democrats had to […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH It’s hard to argue with the FDA’s decision, announced this week, to ban the sale of flavored cigarettes. To be honest, I always thought cigarettes came in regular and menthol, not chocolate and strawberry. The legislation passed earlier this year giving the FDA authority over tobacco products specifically authorized it to ban […]

BY JOE CONASON With admirable calm, President Obama has sought to deflect the supercharged politics of race by expressing his optimism about American attitudes and ignoring the most extreme statements by his critics. For his own sake, as well as the nation’s, he is wise to give a pass to the likes of Glenn Beck […]

BY FROMA HARROP Every time the economy swoons and the racks groan with the weight of unsold women’s clothing, purveyors of fashion talk up “investment dressing.” Investment dressing entails buying a few well-constructed garments that will endure both physically and stylistically for several years. Needless to say, the fashion business hates the concept, but it […]

BY JIM HIGHTOWER In Through the Looking Glass, Humpty Dumpty declared, “When I use a word, it means what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.” Mr. Dumpty would have loved living in our era of corporate-speak, when even a plain word of obvious meaning can be dumped down the semantical rabbit hole […]