Updated: 03/11/10 10:40 AM
WASHINGTON — There are legislative miles to go before the government will be emancipated from its health care myopia, but it is not too soon for a summing up. Whether all or nothing of the legislation becomes law, Barack Obama has refuted critics who call him a radical. He has shown himself to be a timid progressive.
Updated: 03/11/10 10:41 AM
Desiree Rogers must be feeling like the receiving end of the old Dan Hicks tune, “How Can I Miss You If You Won’t Go Away?” As soon as she announced her departure as President Obama’s White House social secretary, her image in major Washington media spun around from negative to positive fast enough to give an average mortal whiplash.
Updated: 03/11/10 10:42 AM
Like most Americans, I haven’t seen “The Hurt Locker,” but I was still rooting for Kathryn Bigelow to claim the Best Director statue. This is, after all, 2010 — a little late in the day for “first women,” particularly in an industry that depends on women as much as men to buy tickets. If you believe the media accounts, another glass ceiling has now been broken. Were it only so simple.
Updated: 03/10/10 10:46 AM
WASHINGTON — The word “McCarthyism” is overused, but in this case it’s mild. Liz Cheney, the former vice president’s ambitious daughter, has in her hand a list of nine Justice Department lawyers whose “values” she has the gall to question. She ought to spend the time examining her own principles, if she can find them.
Updated: 03/11/10 10:42 AM
Watching the local TV news coverage of the “Extreme Makeover” on Buffalo’s West Side brought back a flood of memories. In the early 1950s, my newspaper delivery route was in that section of the city. I was lugging my sack of papers around that neighborhood when I was in my early teens. My Mom, Dad, brother John, grandfather (Pappy), Uncle John and I lived in an upper flat on 14th Street. At one time or another, my route included parts of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, Plymouth, Normal, 14th and 15th streets.
Updated: 03/11/10 10:44 AM
Foreign language study is part of the national education Goals 2000, which states: “By the year 2000 all American students will leave grades 4, 8 and 12 having demonstrated competency in challenging subject matter including English, mathematics, science, foreign language, civics and government, arts, history and geography . . .”
