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By Clarence Page Two years after a magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck Haiti killing hundreds of thousands, more than a half-million Haitians are still sleeping under tarps, often in camps without enough water or toilets. As another hurricane season approaches, many people are asking: What happened to the generous donations that Americans gave? Congress should make it [...]
By Eugene Robinson Charleston, S.C. — You know-it-alls who think unemployment is the most urgent crisis facing the nation are wrong, I’ve learned from watching a zillion Republican campaign ads on television this week. All you deficit hawks, rise-of-China worrywarts and alarmed observers of the Iranian nuclear program are wrong, too, and should stop bothering [...]
By Clarence Page …The controversy began when the first lady and Jill Biden, wife of the vice president, were booed and jeered — loudly enough for television microphones to pick up — at last Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup finale at the Homestead-Miami Speedway in Florida. Many — including me — were predictably outraged, especially since [...]
By Eugene Robinson Occupy Wall Street and its kindred protests around the country are inept, incoherent and hopelessly quixotic. God, I love ’em. I love every little thing about these gloriously amateurish sit-ins. I love that they are spontaneous, leaderless and open-ended. I love that the protesters refuse to issue specific demands beyond a forceful [...]
By Leonard Pitts I am pleased to report the sighting of an artifact so rarely seen among Democrats that it has become the stuff of legend and conjecture, like Bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster. It is called a spine. Said spine was briefly glimpsed a little over a week ago at a “jobs summit” [...]
By Clarence Page “Eric, don’t call my bluff.” Those words suggest President Obama has had it up to here with the preening and posturing of Republican “negotiators” who won’t negotiate. Who could blame him? Obama’s warning to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor came at the abrupt conclusion of Wednesday’s talks about the debt-ceiling crisis. The [...]
By Clarence Page Race relations have undergone a curious flip-flop. Polls show blacks feel more optimistic about the nation’s future than whites, despite the Great Recession that’s giving everybody the blues. Having a black, or, if you prefer, biracial, president explains a lot of that optimism, polls show. But white Americans, particularly working-class whites without [...]
By Clarence Page Native American leaders are upset that Geronimo’s name was used as code for Osama bin Laden. I respect their concern, but I don’t think this particular reference is the insult tribal leaders think it is. Quite the opposite, it sounds to me like a salute to the Apache warrior’s leadership genius and [...]
By Clarence Page Surprise, surprise! Faced with the prospect of Medicare cuts, even tea party folks find griping about “big government” to be a lot more fun than actually shrinking it. Seventy percent of those who identified themselves as supporters of the fiscally conservative movement in a new McClatchy-Marist poll oppose cuts to Medicaid and [...]
By Clarence Page Donald Trump has joined the “birthers,” the odd movement that questions President Barack Obama’s Hawaii birth certificate. That’s a good way for the celebrity billionaire to appear as though he’s making a serious run for the Republican presidential nomination, which he says he is considering. It also makes him sound like a [...]
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