Mitt Romney’s other problems
When asked in a recent Washington Post/Pew Research poll to offer one-word descriptions of the Republican presidential hopefuls, some 30 percent of the respondents said of Mitt Romney: “Mormon.”
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The Vatican meets the occupiers
WASHINGTON — Will we soon see a distinguished-looking older man in long white robes walking among the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in New York’s Zuccotti Park? Is Pope Benedict XVI joining the protest movement?
The deal that almost was
WASHINGTON — To the catalog of missed opportunities for peace in the Middle East, we can add a tantalizing if also depressing chapter: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s secret offer in 2008 to create a Palestinian state that would feature international control of holy sites in a divided Jerusalem — a concession many Israelis have said was impossible.
Defining politics downward
WASHINGTON — Rick Perry should have backed off. Instead, he doubled down, and in a way that was doubly illuminating — about Perry himself and the degraded state of modern politics.
Mixed emotions on Iraq
Eight years ago on a night in March, they interrupted our regularly scheduled programs for a breaking news bulletin.We sat before our televisions and watched rockets arc into the skies over Baghdad. Many of us had doubts about the stated and implied causes of the war that began that night: the need to secure Saddam Hussein’s stockpile of WMD and to retaliate for his part in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. But, as I noted in a column, “We need for George Bush to be right and those of us who are doubtful to be wrong. We need this for the sake of over 200,000 American servicemen and women who stand ready for war in deserts far from home.” We all know how that turned out. There were no weapons of mass destruction.
Drowning in a river of words
WASHINGTON—You step onto an airport’s moving walkway, a flat metal belt that conveys travelers down an airport concourse, sparing them the indignity of burning a few calories by walking a bit. And soon a recorded voice says: “The moving sidewalk is coming to an end. Please look down.”
Empty houses meet needy families
There are certain sounds that are pure childhood joy. One is the clomping of little feet up the stairs. Another is the squeal of delight.
GOP campaign vs. the world
How important is it to have presidential candidates who, when talking about Libya, know where Libya is?Rep. Michele Bachmann accidentally raised that question during the Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas with her response on a foreign policy issue.
Good teevee, bad politics
WASHINGTON — The operative maxim in cable television can be summed up as follows: Is it good teevee?Brilliant is good, but not enough. Attractive is imperative, but not enough. Also needed are tension, conflict and passion. Television is visual storytelling and it doesn’t succeed without all elements working in sync with the additional demands of the human eye.
A future of broken promises
Hard times continue for the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). The administration has scrapped the law’s long-term care insurance program covering nursing homes and home health care. The program was deemed unrealistic. This is a harbinger. As the law is implemented—assuming the Supreme Court doesn’t declare it unconstitutional or Republicans don’t repeal it — disappointments will mount.
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