washingtonpost.com - George F. WillGeorge F. WillRace and 'Rights'- April 24, 2005 In contemporary American politics, as in earlier forms of vaudeville, it helps to have an easy act to follow. Gerald A. Reynolds certainly did.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25617-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_opinion/column... Why Filibusters Should Be Allowed- April 24, 2005 With Republicans inclined to change Senate rules to make filibusters of judicial nominees impossible, Democrats have recklessly given Republicans an additional incentive to do so. It is a redundant incentive, because Republicans think -- mistakenly -- that they have sufficient constitutional reasons for doing so.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48499-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_opinion/column... A Celebrant of Freedom- April 24, 2005 In Eastern Europe, where both world wars began, the end of the Cold War began on Oct. 16, 1978, with a puff of white smoke in Western Europe. It wafted over one of Europe's grandest public spaces, over Michelangelo's dome of St. Peter's, over statues of the saints atop Bernini's curving colonnade that embraces visitors to Vatican City.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21977-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns... Lindsey Graham's Good Idea- April 24, 2005 In 1994, when a 39-year-old state legislator was asked in Aiken, S.C., how he was enticing voters to make him the first Republican elected to Congress from that district since Reconstruction, he said: "I'm one less vote for an agenda that makes you want to throw up." Lindsey Graham won, and in 2002, advocating voluntary personal retirement accounts funded by a portion of individuals' Social Security taxes, he won a Senate seat. Now he has an idea that makes some Republicans throw up: Raise the..http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28526-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_opinion/column... The Old Ballgame Still Has Its Grip- April 24, 2005 Opening Day quiz: (a) Name the only player to get at least 500 hits with four teams.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20060-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns... Wrong on All Counts- April 24, 2005 In 1992, before delivering the Supreme Court's ruling in an abortion case, Justice Anthony Kennedy stood with a journalist observing rival groups of demonstrators and mused: "Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line." Or perhaps you are a would-be legislator, a dilettante sociologist and a free-lance moralist, disguised as a judge.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8745-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/... The Tax Plan To Kill K Street- April 24, 2005 The power to tax involves, as Chief Justice John Marshall said, the power to destroy. So does the power of tax reform, which is one reason why Rep. John Linder, a Georgia Republican, has a 133-page bill to replace 55,000 pages of tax rules.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14401-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_opinion/column... A City That Bets on Water- April 24, 2005 LAS VEGAS -- In this city of histrionic architecture, the building that matters most may be the bland, low-slung headquarters of the Southern Nevada Water Authority. The general manager since the authority was formed in 1991, the elegant, no-nonsense Pat Mulroy, 52, is determined to prevent a water shortage from inhibiting the growth of this city, which is dedicated to the proposition that inhibitions are sinful.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54745-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_opinion/column... The Yucca Mountain Basket- April 24, 2005 YUCCA MOUNTAIN, Nev. -- Things have a grand scale out here. The Nevada Test Site adjacent to this mountain is bigger than Rhode Island but smaller than Nellis Air Force Base, which also is adjacent. But the biggest thing is the dispute, now roiling a second decade, about carving a nuclear waste repository in this mountain's innards, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2221-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns... The Old Ballgame Still Has Its Grip- April 24, 2005 Opening Day quiz: (a) Name the only player to get at least 500 hits with four teams.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23879-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns... |