washingtonpost.com - George F. WillGeorge F. WillUnread and Unsubscribing- April 24, 2005 If you awake before dawn you probably hear a daily sound that may become as anachronistic as the clatter of horses' hooves on urban cobblestones. The sound is the slap of the morning paper on the sidewalk.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10698-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_opinion/column... Nevada's Big Test- April 24, 2005 YUCCA MOUNTAIN, Nev. -- Driving northwest into the desolate vastness of the Nevada Test Site, where the nation's nuclear arsenal was tested, one sees a spindly tower, outlined against a ridgeline, rising 1,527 feet out of the desert. That is the approximate height at which the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima. The tower was used to study radiation effects on life at different elevations.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61697-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_opinion/column... Have a Nice Day, or Else- April 24, 2005 It hurt her feelings, says Jane Fonda, sharing her feelings, that one of her husbands liked them to have sexual threesomes. "It reinforced my feeling I wasn't good enough."http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6179-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns... Fight for the Corners- April 24, 2005 CHICAGO -- He looks like the actor Wilford Brimley -- round as a beach ball; grandfatherly gray mustache -- but Philip J. Cline, this city's police superintendent, is, like his city, hard as a baseball. And as they say in baseball, he puts up numbers.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48687-2005Feb23.html?nav=rss_opinion/column... Suicide by Secularism- April 24, 2005 The astonishing pilgrimage of Europeans to Vatican City for the most attended funeral in history obscured a stark fact confronting the conclave that tomorrow begins selecting the next pope: Vatican City is 109 acres of faith in a European sea of unbelief.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57781-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_opinion/column... A Committee on Steroids- April 24, 2005 America's ambitious educators -- the likes of Princeton's Rev. John Witherspoon (1723-94) and Harvard's Charles William Eliot (1834-1926) -- now include Reps. Tom Davis and Henry Waxman, chairman and ranking Democratic member respectively of the House Government Reform Committee, which, come Thursday morning, wants to instruct the nation, and especially all the little boys and girls watching C-SPAN. The committee's topic will be steroids in baseball, the committee having decided that there..http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32589-2005Mar13.html?nav=rss_opinion/column... Eugenics By Abortion- April 24, 2005 In Britain, as in Europe generally, abortion law has not been made by judges proclaiming glistening, hard-edged rights that cannot be compromised. Rather, abortion law has been made by lawmakers -- imagine that -- seeking to accommodate clashing sensibilities. That is one reason why British law is less extreme than America's essentially unlimited right to abortion on demand.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51671-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_opinion/column... Cut Buster Loose- April 24, 2005 In 1967 Lyndon Johnson added yet another piece to the jigsaw puzzle of national perfection: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was born. Public television was a dubious idea even when concocted as a filigree on the Great Society. Why should government subsidize the production and distribution of entertainment and, even worse, journalism Even if there were -- has there ever been -- a shortage of either in America, is it government's duty to address all cultural shortageshttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2711-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/... One Man's Way to Better Schools- April 24, 2005 PHOENIX -- Patrick Byrne, a 42-year-old bear of a man who bristles with ideas that have made him rich and restless, has an idea that can provide a new desktop computer for every student in America without costing taxpayers a new nickel. Or it could provide 300,000 new $40,000-a-year teachers without any increase in taxes. His idea -- call it the 65 Percent Solution -- is politically delicious because it unites parents, taxpayers and teachers while, he hopes, sowing dissension in the ranks.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38726-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns... Illinois's Ambitious Governor- April 24, 2005 CHICAGO -- It was a marriage made in heaven, as this politics-saturated city probably understands heaven. Rod Blagojevich, the future governor, met his future wife at a fundraiser for her father, the alderman from the 33rd Ward for 30 years now. Herewith a story about the perils of politics in what is -- the state's license plates say so -- the Land of Lincoln.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36627-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_opinion/column... |