By DALE McFEATTERS, Scripps Howard News Service
White men can vote.
You probably wouldn't believe me if I told you this, but listen to The Washington Post's astute reporter, Dan Balz:"In the fierce campaign between Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, a battle dominated by questions of race and gender, white men have emerged as perhaps the single critical swing constituency."
Another fictitious autobiography to sort through
Recently it was revealed that "Love and Consequences," the autobiography of Margaret B. Jones, a half-white, half-Native American foster child who grew up dealing drugs for violent gangs in South Central Los Angeles, was a complete invention.
So, hot enough for you?
WASHINGTON -- For many of us, winter technically ended last Friday, the last day of February. That's how the National Weather Service defines winter as the three months, December, January and February. So we're actually about a week into spring.
Generational differences
WASHINGTON -- One of those studies has just come out that suggests the younger generation -- specifically the part that is 17 years old -- is kind of dumb.
An opportunity for U.S., Cuba to get reacquainted
With the end of the Castro era in sight, the day will come when Cuba and the United States get reacquainted, although this time without the gangsters and dictators.However, we have a ways to go.
Lincoln's cottage a gift to be preserved
WASHINGTON -- Presidents labor mightily to get to Washington, D.C., and then leave every chance they get. George Washington escaped frequently to nearby Mt. Vernon; George Bush to his ranch in Texas.
Mine is bigger than yours
WASHINGTON -- Before you dismiss the idea as crazy, think back to the early '90s when we had just wrapped up another war in the Gulf.
Getting noticed by the boss, the hard way
WASHINGTON -- A recent financial-page story noted that while the markets went down the bonuses paid to the people who play them for the big investment houses went up. Three firms that had their biggest losses ever still paid out generous bonuses. The average Wall Street bonus was $180,420. The biggest, to the head of Goldman Sachs, was $67.9 million.
Good ways to spend $800 to help the economy
WASHINGTON -- It seems that the investment banks and hedge funds and money managers have made a mess of things and now it's up to us to turn things around.President Bush and Congress are promising to give us back $800 on our taxes if we'll take the money and spend or invest it in job-creating ways that will stave off a recession and then we'll all be better off.
A prison like no other
In an interview with TV host Tyra Banks, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton likened the White House to a prison, raising the question of why she would want a job that requires her to live in it.
