Commentary
Helicopter parents have got to come down to earth
By BETSY HART
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Apparently, a helicopter parent's job is never done.
That's essentially the conclusion of Tara Weiss in her article, "Are Parents Killing Their Kids' Careers?" It's currently featured on Forbes.com, the Web site of Forbes Magazine.
Let's backtrack.
That talk about bipartisanship? Just talk
By DAN K. THOMASSON
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
With all the talk on Capitol Hill since the election about bipartisanship, one is reminded of an old story told about two Russians immediately following the 1917 revolution.
It seems the two _ one a former Czarist, the other a victorious Bolshevik _ were sitting in a tavern imbibing vodka.
Speculative worrying about Bush
By JAY AMBROSE
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
There's an old joke that says if we had ham, we could have a ham-and-cheese sandwich, if we had cheese.
An article in The New Republic coughs up a new version of that joke, though no humor is intended.
The changing of the guard on K Street
By DALE McFEATTERS
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
K Street, the important part, starts in the weeds under a freeway, becomes a broad esplanade crossing downtown Washington west to east before terminating, for the purpose of this piece, at the capital's handsome old Carnegie Library, now shuttered.
It is lined with generic office buildings that house lobbyists, law firms and trade associations, enough of them that K Street has become synonymous with the industry that exists to wring favors out of Washington on behalf of its clients.
As the results of the congressional election came in, passersby on the broad sidewalks swore they could hear the sound of color printers pumping out resumes, the click of voice mails receiving importuning messages and the soft rustle of red ties being exchanged for blue.
From smoky-gray to emerald-green
By BONNIE ERBE
Monday, November 20, 2006
A week ago Tuesday, the mountains beat the smog. Open space beat sprawl.
Wildlife whupped concrete. On few topics of liberal-conservative dispute was there a "thumping" of major proportions equal to the one voters visited upon anti-environmentalists in the last election.
The new Congress will be governed so differently on environmental issues from the current Congress that it's hard to count the ways.
The election results changed the game environmentalists have played for the past 12 years from one of defense to offense.
Our long lost relative
An editorial / By Dale McFeatters
Monday, November 20, 2006
The Neanderthals _ cave men, if you will _ are one of science's great mysteries.
What was their relation to mankind's ancestors when they both inhabited Europe? Did they intermarry? And why did they die out about 30,000 years ago, leaving us as the preeminent hominid?
Research teams in Germany and the United States have got at least a start on answering those questions by painstakingly recovering DNA from a Neanderthal bone fragment that for years lay nearly forgotten in a museum.
How deep is the Hispanic rebuke of GOP?
By JOSE DE LA ISLA
Monday, November 20, 2006
The 2006 midterm election revealed a lot about the political future of the nation's 44 million-and-growing Hispanics.
Mainly, it showed that the Latino romance with Republicans is over.
According to the William C.
Saying 'Get over it' with creative gloating
By REG HENRY
Sunday, November 19, 2006
At last! At last! We had dreamed for such a result, but we had given up hope. We were so used to being beaten down that we could not imagine being up ever again.
We were yesterday's people thinking yesterday's thoughts, heedless that the world had moved on.
Time for seriousness on Social Security
By JAY AMBROSE
Friday, November 17, 2006
OK, congressional Democrats, here's your chance _ find a way to fix Social Security in bipartisan cooperation with President Bush and the Republicans, and then reap the blessings of voters because you helped improve what FDR started.
The last thing you want to do, now that you've captured the House and Senate, is to keep playing the demagogic, obstructionist game in which you bash every proposal anyone comes up with while refusing to commit yourself to any ideas whatsoever, or refusing to concede _ as some of you do _ that there's really much of a problem at all.
Believe me, there is a problem, summed up by the fact that the number of Americans over 65 will double over the next quarter of a century _ as some observers have put it, we are on our way to being a nation of Floridas.
Pullout or bloodbath?
By JOHN HALL
Friday, November 17, 2006
Scarcely 10 days have passed since the stunning rebuff to the administration's Iraq policy, and second thoughts have begun appearing about the American troop withdrawal that voters had uppermost in mind.
The Baker-Hamilton study group goes to the White House and does a teleconference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
