NATIONAL COLUMNS

Michael Gerson: The power of authenticity

Posted 6/27/2014 in National Columns

When I worked as a Senate aide in the early 1990s, the state of New York was represented by two figures who could hardly have been more different.

Froma Harrop: In Mississippi the right's mistake was waking the others

Posted 6/26/2014 in National Columns

The tea partyers made a serious blunder in Mississippi, costing them a runoff win: They carelessly slipped their magic passion potion to the opposition.

Froma Harrop: Use your hands

Posted 6/24/2014 in National Columns

Have you stopped using your hands? Do your fingers struggle to sign your name? Is chopping an onion with a knife hard work? Must you call someone to fix a cabinet door off the hinges? Is it agony to sew on a button?

Rheta Johnson: No answer at the other end

Posted 6/21/2014 in National Columns

I wanted to phone my father from Southern Utah. When recently we drove through the national park everyone calls "Arches," its red rocks carved by millions of erosive years into magnificent sculpture, I almost reached for the phone. It was the kind of natural scene he liked to hear about.

Leonard Pitts: Beware the unimaginable

Posted 6/21/2014 in National Columns

The signs were all there. This is what jumps out at you in perusing postmortems of the two greatest surprise attacks in American history. In the days and weeks leading up to Dec. 7, 1941 and Sept. 11, 2001, there were numerous clues that seem neon in hindsight, but which no one pursued.

Charles Krauthammer: Revenge American style

Posted 6/21/2014 in National Columns

Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord. And although retribution shall surely come in the fullness of time, a ballplayer can only wait so long. Accordingly, when Boston slugger David Ortiz came to bat against Tampa Bay's David Price at the end of May -- for the first time this season -- Price fired the very first pitch, a 94-mile-an-hour fastball, square into Ortiz's back.

Froma Harrop: What lurks in a child's online world?

Posted 6/18/2014 in National Columns

What is the most shocking takeaway from the story of the two 12-year-olds who repeatedly stabbed their friend -- nearly to death -- on the imagined orders of a fantasy character?

Thomas Sowell: A bitter after-taste

Posted 6/17/2014 in National Columns

The news from Iraq that Islamic terrorists have now taken over cities that American troops liberated during the Iraq war must have left an especially bitter after-taste to Americans who lost a loved one who died taking one of those cities, or to a survivor who came back without an arm or leg, or with other traumas to body or mind.

Editorial Cartoon for 6-16-14

Posted 6/16/2014 in National Columns

Wyatt Emmerich: McDaniel vs. Cochran: Ideology or money?

Posted 6/16/2014 in National Columns

Now that the Cochran-McDaniel race has gone to a runoff, I feel regretfully compelled to write again on the subject. As I said in my previous column, this is a choice of ideology or money. McDaniel is the purist and would refuse federal bucks on principle. Sen. Cochran has power and clout galore that will directly benefit Mississippi.

Editorial cartoon: 6/15/14

Posted 6/14/2014 in National Columns

Rheta Johnson: Give us a choice

Posted 6/14/2014 in National Columns

Moderates in the Deep South are disenfranchised. So are the young, the impoverished, blacks, gays, women who want to control their own bodies, Latinos and unapologetic liberals of both races and genders. Which, in the South, rolls us right back to the 1950s, at least in statewide elections.