| Sign code as a weapon Jan 24th 2013, 01:59 NORFOLK A drearily familiar dialectic is on display here: Government is behaving badly in order to silence protests of other bad behavior. It is violating the Constitution's First Amendment, stifling speech about its violation of the Fifth Amendment, as it was properly construed until 2005. Read full article >>   |  | Obama follows in Reagan's footsteps Jan 24th 2013, 01:58 To understand how Barack Obama sees himself and his presidency, don't look to Franklin Roosevelt or Abraham Lincoln. Obama's role model is Ronald Reagan — just as Obama told us before he was first elected. Read full article >>   | | Barack Obama — politician Jan 24th 2013, 01:57 In his essay "Politics as a Vocation," the German sociologist Max Weber famously wrote that "politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards." In this sense, it seems possible that Barack Obama has finally come to embrace the vocation of politics as he begins his second term as president. Read full article >>   | | Editorial Board: Mr. Leopold goes to court Jan 24th 2013, 00:29 A JUDGE WILL DECIDE whether Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold is guilty of misconduct in office and fraudulently using taxpayers' money and, if so, whether he should serve prison time. On the separate matter of whether Mr. Leopold has used stupendous misjudgment, behaved boorishly and played the part of petty tyrant and unprincipled buffoon, the verdict is already in: Guilty. Read full article >>   | | In Benghazi hearings, Hillary Clinton storms Capitol Hill Jan 23rd 2013, 23:46 They blamed her mismanagement for the death of Americans in Benghazi, Libya. They accused her of a cover-up. Some even suggested that she faked an illness to avoid testifying about the attack. On Wednesday, Hillary Rodham Clinton finally had her chance to respond to critics, and the outgoing secretary of state served up a potent brew of righteous outrage. Read full article >> | | 'Trent: What Happened at the Council,' by John W. O'Malley Jan 23rd 2013, 23:19 History overflows with conflicts, treaties, personalities, religious and political controversies and all sorts of paradigm-shifting events that are, for many of us, just names. What happened at the Battle of Manzikert? Why do we care about the Edict of Nantes — and its Revocation? How does a Whig differ from a Tory? What is Pelagianism? Who was Michael Bakunin? Read full article >>   | | Offering Lance Armstrong forgiveness after his apology Jan 23rd 2013, 22:45 Lance Armstrong never had a chance. Though Kathleen Parker ["An absence of false contrition," op-ed, Jan. 20] concedes that we as individuals grieve and experience guilt in our own ways, both she and Dave Kindred ["Fantasy league," Outlook, Jan. 20] added to all the public criticism of Mr. Armstrong's confessions to Oprah Winfrey. In the coming weeks, I will celebrate the fifth anniversary of my own remission from testicular cancer and am poignantly reminded of the hours I spent receiving chemotherapy with Mr. Armstrong's autobiography in my lap. Reading that book, I related directly to the trials not of a world-renowned cyclist but of a young man facing a life-threatening illness. It gave me hope when I needed it and inspired me to compete in the New York City Marathon on behalf of the Livestrong Foundation — for which I very proudly raised more than $7,000 — exactly one year after my diagnosis. Read full article >>   | | The art of staying in office Jan 23rd 2013, 22:41 Two Jan. 19 letter-writers expressed disappointment that President Obama has not made more of a place for women in his administration ["Women overlooked for the Cabinet"]. Reflecting upon my own disappointment with the president in terms of his lack of support for labor, the environment and other issues that are generally favored by Democrats, I must wonder if Mr. Obama's campaign and election was just a "bait and switch" operation, or if this is just another case of politics as usual. Read full article >>   | |
