By MARTIN SCHRAM, Scripps Howard News Service
Schram: Women should retain mammography choice
The first news blurbs Monday seemed like the sort of rushed reporting that would be followed by a journalist's red-faced correction. Then it got more shocking. The blurbs were true.
Schram: GOP backed into opposing states' rights
The biggest unreported news in ages just happened in plain sight. America's conservatives have been backed into opposing their own mantra of states' rights.
Just so they can continue to say no to any form of public option for health insurance.
Schram: Rise and fall and rise again of Obama
Looking back, we can see how the Remarkable Rise and Fall and Rise Again of Barack Obama really began months ago, way back in November 2009.
Schram: Team Obama hardly 'dithering' on Afghanistan
Down in the top-secret depths of the White House Situation Room, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen led President Obama and a table full of officials through the long-awaited results of Pentagon's new war game, designed to predict outcomes of two troop strategy options in the once-won, then-neglected, now-grim Afghanistan War.
Schram: Obama takes two-track AfPak approach
As President Barack Obama pursues his deliberately paced effort to forge the first comprehensive Afghanistan/Pakistan strategy after eight years of wandering war, Washington is taking it all calmly in stride.
Schram: Renaming Redskins a cause we can all support
Washington's problems seem not just humongous but beyond solutions -- from the economy to health reform to global warming, Iraq and Afghanistan/Pakistan. But occasionally a controversy is thrust before us where we all know the right thing to do.
Schram: Vietnamization of Afghanistan not an option
As America's latest wartime president reviews the grim but realistic assessment of his top war zone general--- and reshapes the military strategy that will become his legacy -- this much is certain:
The Vietnamization of the war in Afghanistan cannot, and will not, be an option.
Schram: Democrats pay for ducking health insurance
Some issues are a demagogue's delight. And Democrats, thinking there really is safety in numbers, lemming-walked themselves into their opponents' trap and are now paying a steep political price because they ducked two health insurance reforms they could have resolved with just a bit of political courage and populist common sense.
Schram: GOP attacks of Obama speech sound familiar
On television screens in many but not all of America's schools, America's president spent less than a half hour Tuesday trying to inspire students who are used to being talked at by adults.
Schram: Strange bed fellows on CIA probe
America gets a refresher in the lingo of labels every time senators launch an advise-and-consent ritual over a president's judicial nominee.
