washingtonpost.com - Colbert KingColbert KingThe Specter at Thursday's Party- April 23, 2005 Come next Thursday Republicans will dance the night away, as is their due. To the victor goes the right to boogie, and George W. Bush and company earned their evening of fun and frolic at the polls in November. That said, there is a case to be made for a show of restraint and humility during the nation's 55th presidential inauguration. After all, when it comes to the war in Iraq, it's not as if accountability got a fair shake on Election Day.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10921-2005Jan14.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/... Bridging the Great Divide (Cont'd)- April 23, 2005 The state of the Union may be "confident and strong," as President Bush said the other night, but it is also full of people as prickly as porcupines. At least that's my impression based on responses to my Jan. 29 column, "Bridging the Great Divide."http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64950-2005Feb4.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/k... My City in a Different Light- April 23, 2005 PARIS -- Sometimes the best way to get a good perspective on your hometown's problems is to leave for a while. No sooner had my wife, Gwen, and I reached the United Airlines lounge at Dulles Airport last week than a story in the New York Times caused me to see the District of Columbia in a different light.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28528-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/... Why the Crass Remarks About Rice- April 23, 2005 California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer pursued a curious line of attack during Condoleezza Rice's confirmation hearing this week. Rice, one of the principal architects of the administration's Iraq policy, was clearly vulnerable to charges of helping produce a misguided, if not misleading, rationale for the Iraqi invasion, as well as poor postwar planning. Saddam Hussein clearly was not the threat Rice had proclaimed. Her paper trail of misstatements virtually invited a congressional attack on.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27818-2005Jan21.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/... An Affront to the First Amendment- April 23, 2005 A hard-hitting column by a newspaper opinion writer is not exactly news. But when an organization dedicated to protecting First Amendment rights takes out after a columnist for exercising his freedom of expression, that indeed is newsworthy. What's more, it's outrageous. And that is exactly what occurred last Saturday on The Post's Free for All page, when, in a letter to the editor, Kevin M. Goldberg, general counsel of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, tore into Metro columnist Marc...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8732-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/ki... Turning a Deaf Ear to the Displaced- April 23, 2005 Drive-by news gathering, which passes as journalism today, conveys a superficial and misleading picture of gentrification in the nation's capital. The stories tell nothing of the wrenching consequences of people being pushed out of their neighborhoods. But how would those journalists know They've never lived through the process of gentrification, and they don't spend nearly enough time in the community getting to know what they write about. Facile writers with clueless editors can get away with.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57869-2005Jan7.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/k... What Really Needs Fixing in the D.C. Schools- April 23, 2005 Looking back on the week, D.C. School Superintendent Clifford B. Janey might wish to recall the possibly apocryphal words attributed to Gen. George Armstrong Custer when he found himself surrounded by Lakota and Cheyenne Indians at the Little Big Horn: "I've had better days." Clearly, that is true in Janey's case.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54791-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/... 'Take Your Pick and Start Somewhere'- April 23, 2005 At a pre-dawn gathering on Wednesday morning, our small group of six, led by associate rector Ruth Anne Garcia, recited a portion of Psalm 72, including the 7th verse: "In his time shall the righteous flourish; there shall be abundance of peace till the moon shall be no more." Ah, but when Not this Christmas.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25136-2004Dec24.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/... For Redder, for Bluer- April 23, 2005 Last week's column about unconventional marriages may have left the impression that I was writing only as a neutral observer. T'ain't so. Count me among those who are in relationships that do not conform to customary practices.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36619-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/... Wolfowitz's Tough Tasks- April 23, 2005 Before the sun could set on Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz's first day as President Bush's nominee to be president of the World Bank, the e-mails started arriving. The first, from the online Nation magazine, produced this item from David Corn's Capital Games column: "The Wolfowitz nomination is a win for the Pentagon but a loss for the world. Wolfowitz's achievement as a warmonger may say little about his views on international development, but his record on Iraq is one of...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48482-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/... |