The Buffalo News : Opinion

WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton got an annoying reminder last week of a lesson she should have learned long ago: Be careful of what may be going on in your shop right under your very nose.

WASHINGTON — Election results in New Jersey, Virginia and New York City last week threaten to turn what Barack Obama hoped would be a new era at the White House into a quirky one-term interlude, like Jimmy Carter’s.

WASHINGTON — A big reason congressional Democrats are so blithely eager to push the 2009 version of President Bill Clinton’s carbon tax is that they never have to pay for gasoline.

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.

In an ideal world, every piece of journalism would be based on information from sources that are openly named and fully identified.

Mayor Brown, a simple expectation: Obey the law. Investigative reporter James Heaney filed requests months ago, under the state’s Freedom of Information Law, for city records that are unquestionably the rightful property of the people who elected you.

Barack Obama is back from Asia and his bow to the Japanese, his handshake with the tyrant from Myanmar and his difficult sessions with the Chinese. There sure has been a lot of talk about the president and his submissiveness in Asia.

Dear Sammy Sosa:

WASHINGTON—For late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the “propaganda of the deed.” And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 — not just the most destructive, but the most spectacular and telegenic.

A few interesting factoids gleaned from the Web site of the New York State Board of Elections — www.elections.state.ny.us : • Erie County Democratic Chairman Len Lenihan’s loss of the sheriff’s campaign stung politically and financially. State records show Headquarters contributed $77,500 to the losing effort of Cheektowaga Police Capt. John Glascott.

County Executive Chris Collins, fresh from his flop on the Saturday night comedy circuit, boarded a plane for New York Tuesday afternoon in what appears to be a still active effort to run for governor.

Some thoughts and observations gathered along the short campaign trail to Election Day: