washingtonpost.com - Harold Meyerson -- Washington Post Opinion Writer (washingtonpost.com)Harold Meyerson writes about politics and policy for The Washington Post's op-ed page.Clinton's Two-State Two-Step- May 28, 2008 On Saturday, when the Rules Committee of the Democratic National Committee meets to determine the fate of Florida and Michigan's delegations to this summer's convention, it will have some company. A group of Hillary Clinton supporters has announced it will demonstrate outside.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/27/AR2008052702553.html?nav=r... A Useful Nudge in California- May 21, 2008 The California Supreme Court's decision striking down the law prohibiting the contentious marriages was emphatic. In a concurring opinion, Justice Jesse Carter wrote, "The statutes here involved are the product of ignorance, prejudice and intolerance. This decision is in harmony with the principles of the Declaration of Independence which are guaranteed by the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment . . . that all human beings have equal rights . . . and that the right to liberty and the...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/20/AR2008052001568.html?nav=r... McCain's America- May 14, 2008 If the McCain campaign is still trying out songs, there's one by a couple of Brits, W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, that it should consider. We have to change the words "an Englishman" to "American" to get it to work, but, that done, the song expresses succinctly and entirely the case for John McCain and, by implication, against Barack Obama:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/13/AR2008051302303.html?nav=r... Titans on the Mat- May 8, 2008 We put too much stock in the Oedipal theory of history, my late polymath friend Jim Chapin, the most generous of mentors to historians and journalists, used to argue. More common than children overthrowing their parents, Chapin said, was parents stamping out their children's revolts. More revolutions fail than succeed. Chapin called this the Cronus theory, after the Titan in Greek mythology who, on hearing that one of his children would overthrow him, swallowed them whole (except, unfortunately.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/07/AR2008050703186.html?nav=r... |