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Froma Harrop: Open Internet survives weird politics
Net neutrality won the day in Washington, and that wasn't supposed to happen.
Kathleen Parker: Is Twitter really America's conscience?
Denizens of social media were rankled during the Academy Awards telecast when actor Sean Penn made a crack about Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and green cards.
Leonard Pitts: 'My Girl': 50 years and counting
There are sounds it feels like you've known forever, sounds that have been in your ear so long, it's hard to believe they were ever new.
Dana Milbank: Jeb Bush, CPAC pinata
It happened just as Jeb Bush was about to explain why he thinks conservatives need to stop being perceived as "anti-everything": Attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference let it be known that, as part of their anti-everythingness, they are also anti-Bush.
Partick Buchanan: GOP platform: war without end
If the sadists of ISIS are seeking -- with their mass executions, child rapes, immolations, and beheadings of Christians -- to stampede us into a new war in the Middle East, they are succeeding. Repeatedly snapping the blood-red cape of terrorist atrocities in our faces has the Yankee bull snorting, pawing the ground, ready to charge again.
Leonard Pitts: Rudy Giuliani, once heroic, now simply foolish
Here we are, six years later, six years of mom jeans and golf dates and taking the girls for ice cream. And yet, some of us are still hung up on the perceived "otherness," the "not like us"-ness, of Barack Obama.
Froma Harrop: Politicians for local control, except when they're not
The people of Denton, Texas, recently voted to ban fracking within the city limits.
Kathleen Parker: The love litmus test
Republicans seem ceaselessly enamored of litmus tests, but the newest one -- Do you believe President Obama loves America? -- makes birthers seem witty.
Kathleen Parker: Wordsmithing war
Channel-surfing the nightly cable news, one is reminded that certitude is the enemy of sanity.
Charlie Mitchell: Malingerers draw criticism, but why blame them?
What state Rep. Gene Alday put in words earlier this month struck a chord with many. They believe America in 2015 is a place where a decreasing number of people work to support themselves and their families and are forced to support an increasing number who are shiftless and lazy -- yet have cars, homes, plenty of food, health care, vastly more children than they can afford or care for, super cell phones and plenty of frou-frou including the latest in clothing and jewelry designs.
Bill Crawford: Mississippi's thin racial veneer
Race persists as a predominant part of Mississippi life.
Leonard Pitts: Jon Stewart is why I'm not crazy
I am not insane. For this, I have Jon Stewart to thank. Thirteen years ago, it felt like I was in a front row seat on the express train to Crazy Town. That, you will recall, is when the wheels began to come off the Bush administration's argument for invading Iraq, i.e., to find the weapons of mass destruction.
Kathleen Parker: Answering the atrocities of ISIS
With each of their actions, the world has provided a predictable reaction. There's a very 2001 feel to President Obama's request for authorization to use military force and the nauseating sense that we'll be at war indefinitely.
Froma Harrop: The slave wears Prada: confusion on the red carpet
Lupita Nyong'o picked up an Oscar last year for her searing portrayal of a scarred captive in "12 Years a Slave." But many in the Academy Awards audience -- just reminded of the misery depicted in a film clip -- must have felt a bit mixed up when the woman they associated with a tormented slave floated up the stage stairs in a sumptuous sky-blue Prada gown, holding up the pleated skirt lest she trip on the yards of luxury.
Michael Gerson: An outsourced government
For the six years of the Obama presidency, or perhaps the last 35 years since Ronald Reagan's election, American politics has been dominated by a debate on the size and role of the federal government.
Leonard Pitts: Believers of Ernst hoax say a lot about who we are
"Unbelievably sad." That was the subject line of an email a colleague sent me last week.
Susan Estrich: Honoring our presidents
The headline that caught my attention on Presidents Day could not have been starker, colder: "Intense Republican Hate Is Skewing Obama Polls."
Leonard Pitts: Judge Roy Moore stands on the wrong side of history ... again
In June, it will be 52 years since George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door. It happened at the University of Alabama, where two African-American students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, were attempting to register. In facing down three federal officials demanding that he stand aside and honor a court order allowing the registration to proceed, the bantam governor of Alabama sought to make good on a noxious promise: "segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever."
Charlie Mitchell: Bryant making good on pledge for tighter controls
OXFORD -- In the aftermath of prison kickback arrests, Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is keeping his pledge to seek tighter controls. Two bills passed the Senate unanimously last week, wining immediate praise from Bryant. One would remove leasing prison farmland from Mississippi Department of Corrections control and the other would move the Inmate Welfare Fund (proceeds from canteen sales) away from MDOC and to the state treasurer.
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