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The Bowe Bergdahl brouhaha: Verdict first, evidence later
What’s most disturbing about the Bowe Bergdahl story – and so noxiously predictable – is the mad rush to judgment in ad ...
11 years ago
Tiananmen Square was so 25 years ago
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the most indelible image of the doomed Chinese democratic movement – a lone protester, ...
11 years ago
Mississippi burning: The GOP’s uncivil war rages onward
It’d be so awesome if tea-party poster boy Chris McDaniel were to win the vicious Senate race in Mississippi. Then we’ ...
11 years ago
The “open carry” menu: Want some guns with your fries?
If you were out to dinner, particularly with kids, and some manly guys jonesing for food showed up toting AK-47s or AR-15s ...
11 years ago
A fond salute to fall guy Eric Shinseki
Before we expunge Eric Shinseki from our collective consciousness – he fell on his sword Friday and ...
11 years ago
Edward Snowden: Patriot? Traitor? Traitorous patriot? Patriotic traitor?
So what do we think of Edward Snowden now? Thumbs up or down? White hat or black hat? Three cheers or Bronx cheer? NBC News ...
11 years ago
An Obamacare plan succeeds, and a top Republican squirms
Remember when conventional wisdom decreed that ’14 Republican candidates would cruise to victory by hammering Obamacare? Turns out, ...
11 years ago
The bipartisan betrayal of America’s war vets
Before we fault President Obama for the latest service failures at the Department of Veterans Affairs – and he indeed deserves blam ...
11 years ago
Santa Barbara and the well-armed avenging alpha male
With the latest gun massacre now in the books, let’s just skip the usual rituals — “thoughts ‘n’ prayers,” th ...
11 years ago
I’m flattered that you’re here, but come on, this is supposed to be a holiday. So I will treat it accordingly. ...
11 years ago
I’m flattered that you’re here, but come on, this is supposed to be a holiday. So I will treat it accordingly. ...
11 years ago
Tea party scandal: The case of the bedridden wife
If we had a dime for every time someone in politics plays a dirty trick, we’d all be living large. Nevertheless, a particula ...
11 years ago