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Why the president looks exhausted
Barack Obama looks exhausted these days. He looks about as tired, in other words, as the nation feels. He knows this. At a speech Saturday, he said that people are always telling him to “hang in there.” “Don’t worry about me!” Obama said. “I am …Read More
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Biden toys with White House bid
The Tom Harkin steak fry is no ordinary event. And when Biden was invited to headline the event this year, it set tongues wagging. Was this an invitation to open his 2016 campaign? He praised San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro and even John Kerry. But not a word for Kerry’s predecessor.
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Government hasn’t met Obama’s declarations about protecting children
Change has not happened since the last time the president spoke about being judged on how safe we keep our children. Nobody even talks about it today.
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Just say no, Mr. President
I can still summon from memory the black-and-white film of the B-52s, soaring like enormous birds of prey, opening their belly doors and dropping their tons of bombs upon the people beneath. We did not own a color TV, but I could see the ripples …
Syria: Good Roger vs. Bad Roger
‘ We will smite Syria swiftly, but prudently,” Good Roger said. “Ferociously, but cautiously. With abandon, but with restraint. And if our red line is crossed again, we have crimson, magenta and puce lines to back them up.” “Have you been sniffing the printer toner …
Not too far or too fast. Just right
To most black people, the March on Washington a half-century ago was about hope. To most white people, it was about fear. Whites feared massive violence. The government had mobilized 6,000 police officers, 2,000 National Guardsmen and 4,000 soldiers to await the marchers. But the …
Serial groping the California way
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, who is accused of being a serial groper of women, has a problem that goes beyond his behavior. In a state where celebrities are often worshipped, Filner does not resemble a celebrity. He has a smile like a Halloween pumpkin …
Republicans revving up the clown car over Hillary documentary, miniseries
BY ROGER SIMON. CNN is making a documentary on Hillary Clinton, and the entertainment division of NBC is doing a miniseries on Clinton’s life, with Diane Lane playing Hillary.
Zimmerman trial all about race
Anyone who thinks the stalking of Trayvon Martin and the trial of his killer, George Zimmerman, was not about race is kidding himself. We would wish it otherwise. Race is the most important undiscussed issue in America today. On Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder called …
Recalling an assignment in Grenada with a Hemingway type
BY ROGER SIMON. After 30 years, I’m still looking for a Swedish reporter I met in Barbados at the time of the 1983 Grenada invasion.
Edward Snowden: The slacker who came in from the cold
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Roger Simon: Dr. Politics says Holder is staying
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Republicans drone on and on
BY ROGER SIMON. The Republican Party is in such a state of confusion that it is mystified over what it is supposed to be baffled about.
‘You will walk again’
BY ROGER SIMON. Stories on amputees have filled the media since the Boston Marathon bombing in which at least 17 people have had one or both of their legs blown off. They will want to be what they were: whole. That is not just a physical process, but a mental one.
Assassins don’t fit a profile
BY ROGER SIMON. In 1975, both Lynette Fromme and Sara Jane Moore, two women, broke the “profile” by attacking President Gerald Ford in separate assaults. An assassination profile would not have identified them in advance.
