National Columnists
- John Stossel: Double standard about journalists’ bias
- I made The New York Times last week. It even ran my picture. My mother would be proud.
Unfortunately, the story was critical. It said, "Critics have leaped on Mr. Stossel's speaking engagements as the latest evidence of conservative bias on the... Full story
- Robert Scheer: Keeping Afghanistan safe from democracy
- By Robert Scheer
- The most idiotic thing being said about America's involvement in Afghanistan is that the best way to protect the 68,000 U.S. troops there now is by putting an additional 40,000 in harm's way.
People who argue for that plan clearly have not read... Full story
- Thomas Sowell: The 'costs' of medical care
- We are incessantly being told that the cost of medical care is "too high" – either absolutely or as a growing percentage of our incomes. But nothing that is being proposed by the government is likely to lower those costs, and much that is... Full story
- Ron Hart: More tales about the ‘Drunkle’
- It is time I stop railing at politicians and start making fun of my family again. According to focus groups reading my upcoming book, my Uncle Mac seems to be someone about whom folks want to hear more. It seems everyone but my family wants me to... Full story
- Thomas D. Elias: 'Tis the season to just say no
- By Thomas D. Elias
- The winter holidays are fast approaching, and with them the advent of a long season of being confronted by initiative petition circulators outside almost every big box store, grocery emporium and shopping mall in California.
That's nothing unusual.... Full story
- Ronald Fraser: How just is California's justice system?
- By Ronald Fraser
- On paper at least, the U.S. Constitution's "due process of law" clause is the citizen's guarantee against wrongful conviction and imprisonment. But once inside a courtroom all bets are off. Research shows that eyewitness misidentification, false... Full story
- Cynthia Tucker: It’s time to end this modern prohibition
- Forty years ago, President Richard Nixon used the unfortunate phrase "War on Drugs," launching a misguided crusade that has encouraged street violence, eaten away at state budgets and packed our prisons with nonviolent offenders. The nation's... Full story
- Thomas D. Elias: Move to keep illegals out of census just plain dumb
- There's an old saying in politics: "If you don't vote, you don't count."
In short, areas where voting turnout is low lose influence in government and the money and services that come with it.
But there's something even more basic at stake when it... Full story
- John Stossel: Self-governance really does work
- Much of what government does is based on the premise that people can't do things for themselves. So government must do it for them. More often than not, the result is a ham-handed, bumbling, one-size-fits-all approach that leaves the intended... Full story
- Robert Scheer: Joe Lieberman twists the knife
- Is there a more hypocritical figure in American politics than Joe Lieberman? The Connecticut senator declared Tuesday that he would support a filibuster of any health care reform bill that has a public option — even the version with the... Full story
