Monday, January 12, 2004 Gephardt's last stand
CARROLL, Iowa -- Rep. Richard Gephardt, with characteristic calm, meticulously touched all points of his 20-minute stump speech last week before about 50 Iowans at Sam's Soda and Sandwiches here. He did not convey the urgency of what could be the last campaign in a long, distinguished political career. It has always been assumed he must win the Iowa caucuses next Monday night for his presidential candidacy to survive. What's new is that he really has a chance. Sunday, January 11, 2004 Texas GOP fears remap reversal
Republican joy over a federal court approving congressional redistricting in Texas was diminished by an opening in the decision that could give U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor a chance to reverse it. Thursday, January 8, 2004 Democrat's tap dance on religion is 'playing with fire'
When six opponents gathered at public broadcasting studios outside Des Moines last Sunday for yet another debate, they searched for some way to slow Howard Dean's presidential express. Two candidates blistered the Democratic front-runner for advocating across-the-board tax increases, but no adversary dared bring up Dean's mixture of religion and politics. Monday, January 5, 2004 Bolivia's drug crisis worsening
While the Bush White House publicly brags about reduced coca production in South America's Andean region, there is dismay behind the scenes in the U.S. intelligence community. A recent classified National Intelligence summary reported there is not any scenario under current conditions that will continue aggressive eradication in Bolivia of the crop used to produce cocaine. That threatens the unraveling of the U.S. anti-drug program based in Colombia. Sunday, January 4, 2004 Iraq debt relief is no Snow job
Special Envoy James A. Baker III is getting rave reviews for globe-hopping efforts to lower Iraq's staggering debt, but that raises this question: Where is Treasury Secretary John Snow? Thursday, January 1, 2004 Dean keeps giving foes campaign fodder
Steve Murphy, Rep. Richard Gephardt's campaign manager, this week professed to being baffled. How is it possible, he wondered, that Howard Dean's bizarre comments about Osama bin Laden attracted so little news media attention? The answer is that apart from being obscured by the holiday season, the Democratic presidential front-runner's words got lost in his own stream of unusual remarks. Monday, December 29, 2003 Iraq reconstruction on hold
A pall was cast over Christmas for disappointed U.S. government civilians in Baghdad when they received word two weeks ago that the $18.6 billion for Iraq's reconstruction rushed through Congress in November was indefinitely on hold. They have been told not to issue ''requests for proposal,'' which surely will extend the promised Feb. 1 date for contract awards. Sunday, December 28, 2003 Seeds of Bush team sown in '70s
When Vice President Dick Cheney was asked in a recent taped television interview what has ''best prepared you for where you are now,'' he quickly replied that it was working for Gerald Ford and Donald Rumsfeld. Thursday, December 25, 2003 No limits for House appropriators who pile on pork
As Republican Rep. Ralph Regula of Ohio stepped off the House floor Dec. 8, he should have been happy. The House had just passed an omnibus appropriations bill packed with spending earmarked for individual projects, including plenty that Regula directed to his own state. Yet, he sounded a little peeved. ''People in my district don't care a whole lot about what Novak thinks about it,'' he told Washington Post reporter Dan Morgan. Monday, December 22, 2003 The Democrats' Dean dilemma
Before a single vote has been cast anywhere, thoughtful Democrats across the country are reaching a melancholy conclusion. Howard Dean is close to clinching the nomination. The question is not merely whether he can be stopped but also whether he should be stopped. Sunday, December 21, 2003 Soros shrinking from Dean
Left-wing billionaire investor George Soros, who appeared to support Howard Dean for president, now is privately expressing doubts about the Democratic Party's front-runner. Thursday, December 18, 2003 Rebuilding and retribution in Iraq
Two weeks before Saddam Hussein was found in a rat hole, one high-level U.S. civilian in Iraq sent this e-mail to another: ''My opinion is that CPA (the U.S.-run Coalition Provisional Authority) is a living breathing [obscenity]. It is beyond negligent or even criminal. It is tragic in the Greek sense.'' Capture of the tyrant softens that grim assessment, but it is not the only good news from occupied Iraq. Monday, December 15, 2003 As Dems scramble, White House a 'gloat-free zone'
At the White House on Sunday morning, President Bush's aides watching television finally saw images that they had been awaiting for months. Iraqis were dancing in the streets of Baghdad, celebrating the capture of Saddam Hussein.
New Jersey's brave new world
The lame-duck New Jersey State Assembly is poised today to pass a bill members of President Bush's Council on Bioethics contend will permit human cloning. This manipulation plows new ground in the struggle over whether there should be moral limits on science's relentless thrust. With federal anti-cloning legislation stalled in the U.S. Senate, the Garden State takes the first step toward a brave new world.
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