By DAN K. THOMASSON, Scripps Howard News Service
The name of the game is greed
WASHINGTON -- If ever you wondered about how much owners of sports franchises really care about their fans, the NFL has taken a step toward providing the answer -- very little unless you're a paying customer.
Experience counts more than charisma
WASHINGTON -- Voting for any candidate at any level requires a leap of faith and that is particularly the case in a presidential election, even when one has a strong party affiliation. Quite often, the most appropriate guide is the old adage that the devil you know is better than the one you don't.
Knowing when to quit
WASHINGTON -- What kind of ego drives a man to continue for years to seek an office he has no chance of winning? Particularly when that job is the presidency of the United States, a position that requires the occupant to have masochistic tendencies?
LBJ never got the credit he deserved
WASHINGTON -- This is just a reminder of how bad things can become before they get better. File it under the heading "Lest we forget."
LBJ deserves Clinton's due credit
WASHINGTON -- It probably was inevitable that sometime during the increasingly acrimonious campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination a line in a speech or an answer to a question would pr
Now the rest of us have a say
WASHINGTON -- The real winner in the New Hampshire primary may be a nominating process that was in danger of falling into disrepute as an unfair exercise in small-state politics that excluded the u
The false promise of 'change'
WASHINGTON -- With all this talk about change from the presidential aspirants, one should remember that in politics, as in few other endeavors, the more things change the more they stay the same.
Justice should wake up to reality
WASHINGTON -- If the Supreme Court is as hermetically sealed from outside influence as many believe, then the recent carnage in Nebraska and Colorado will have no influence on its decision whether
Katrina-related disaster relief remains a disgrace
WASHINGTON -- One can only hope that the holiday season brings good cheer to those who lost everything two years ago from the hurricanes Katrina and Rita, especially those who were at the mercy of
Regulations on newspaper cross ownership are outdated
WASHINGTON -- Like many of the alphabet agencies of the Franklin Roosevelt administration, the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) probably is an anachronism -- an oversight institution that is
