The Buffalo News : Opinion

WASHINGTON — The Democratic Congress and us voters have a bigger “don’t ask-don’t tell” security problem than legitimizing the behavior of homosexuals in the uniformed armed forces.

WASHINGTON — With President Obama’s latest “speech of his life” echoing around the talk shows, Democrats are showing they won’t accept the plain truth that the economic back of the American century is broken.

WASHINGTON — When President Obama faces Congress and the nation on Wednesday, he will be in the uncomfortable position of looking too much like a lame duck with three years left on his term.

In Sydney Pollack's 1981 movie about newspapers, "Absence of Malice," an experienced editor coaches his young reporter.

If you ask one News reader, putting Jerry Sullivan’s column on the front page recently was a spectacularly bone-headed decision.

The Buffalo News, its critics will be quick to tell you, is one of those ultra-liberal newspapers. Its editorial page is way left of center and it hasn’t endorsed a Republican for any office since William Howard Taft.

More U. S. and international attention should be focused on the plight of three American hikers who have been languishing in solitary confinement in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison for six months. They have had no access to a lawyer or any communication with their families, who have no idea of their condition or mental state.

Pentagon chiefs are beginning to acknowledge openly that gays and lesbians should be allowed to serve openly in the military. Unfortunately, real life changes faster than Congress does.

WASHINGTON — Much time and many volumes have been devoted to Freud’s famous question — What do women want? — with little commensurate attention to the male counterpart.

Buffalo Sabres owner Tom Golisano may be soaking up the Florida sunshine this winter, but something tells us he’s in a New York State of mind.

Chris Collins was winding up an interview with The Buffalo News Tuesday after addressing a business group in suburban Albany, when the subject turned to the election taking place across the Massachusetts border just 30 miles away.

A critical requirement of state GOP Chairman Ed Cox’s new job is to tour around New York and act as the most optimistic man in the world.