In the past few weeks, the Democratic field of presidential candidates has ballooned bigger than the cast of "Bobby." This past Saturday, the presumptive frontrunner, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., followed Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in announcing a presidential exploratory committee; former Sen. John ...
The presidential inauguration should stand as a declaration of the success of our political process, yet recent inaugurations display the absolute worst excesses of American politics.
By the end of his short life, Lenny Bruce's stage show was the stuff of legend. Equal parts obscene, profound and rebellious, the comedian's groundbreaking act entertained thousands of fans while concurrently piquing the interest of the FBI. In the years leading up to Bruce's death in 1966, the FBI ...
Mainstream media's recent failings are glaring and egregious. Among them: journalist Jayson Blair's fabricated New York Times stories; commentator Armstrong Williams being bribed to promote the No Child Left Behind Act; and James Guckert, under the pseudonym Jeff Gannon, acquiring White House press ...
Academia is conducting a witch-hunt. The target? Plagiarists.
Congressional Republicans are having a difficult time defending President Bush's choice of John Bolton as United Nations Ambassador. Democrats are letting loose a barrage of criticisms against the former arms-control officer, turning his confirmation hearings into a political circus. Bolton has been ...
Following the 2004 election, a grudging acceptance swept the ranks of the Democratic Party: "Our politicians just don't know how to communicate." While campaigning, Sen. John Kerry was never able to clearly relate his vision for the United States. His platform was a hodge-podge of weak policy proposals ...
In case you've been stuck under a rock in the Galapagos for the past several months, debates over the value of teaching "intelligent design" in schools have been raging across the United States. Proponents of intelligent design hold that life on earth exhibits a level of complexity that therefore signals ...
In the weeks leading up to the 2004 presidential election, I signed up for both John Kerry's and George W. Bush's e-mail newsletters. Following Bush's victory, the e-mails from his camp slowly dwindled until they were completely replaced in my inbox by messages urging me to increase the size of my penis ...
On Sept. 29, The Herald reported that Harvard Law School allowed military recruiters onto its campus this fall in order to retain millions of dollars in federal funds. The article quoted numerous Harvard Law students and administration members who portrayed the federal government as a bully who used ...
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