Grassroots support for the AmeriCorps has grown, but is it enough to overcome recent legislative action? There are two ways to look at the dramatic funding crisis that in the last month has nearly crippled AmeriCorps, the nation’s premier national service program:It’s either a sure sign that the “compassionate conservatism” of the Bush White House […]

It’s time for the Bush administration to stop parsing words and for Congress to uphold its responsibility for government oversight.During his State of the Union address, President Bush spoke of efforts by Iraq to purchase uranium from Africa. He created a chilling picture of a world in which Saddam Hussein possessed nuclear weapons and a […]

We have the early returns on the war in Iraq.Saddam’s organized military is crushed, but the United States now faces a deadly, expensive, endless occupation, which is shaping up rather differently than the post-war occupation of Germany and Japan.If we think much of the Muslim world hates us now, just wait five years. More importantly, […]

There was no domestic political benefit to the speech President Bush gave in Senegal July 8. African-Americans are not likely to abandon their support of the Democratic Party because Bush said the right thing about slavery and its terrible aftermath, though for 100 years following the Emancipation Proclamation slavery’s descendants mostly voted Republican in the […]

Friday marked the anniversary of a tragic failure by the United Nations. On July 11, 1995, Bosnian Serb forces attacked Srebrenica, a U.N. protected zone, and killed as many as 8,000 Muslims.The dead were hidden in mass graves throughout the countryside. To date, 5,000 bodies have been exhumed.Serbian leaders Radovan Karadzic and Rotako Mladic remain […]

With New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. likely to name his new top editor any day, and a Times task force studying ways to avoid the fabrications that crept into its pages, it’s time for every Times-lover to help the gray lady put this unpleasantness behind it.The best way to reform a system that […]

Lawyers are coming after our milk and our water. What’s next, our beer?As the Sun Journal’s Trevor Maxwell reports today, lawyers in Boston and Alabama have filed a bevy of lawsuits against Poland Spring water. Actually, the suit is against Nestle Waters N.A., which owns and operates the bottling operation in Poland.The suits make a […]

Journal Star, Peoria, Ill., July 6President Bush is right to be hesitant about sending American troops to Liberia. …Other nations in the region have pledged to send 3,000 troops, if they are accompanied by 2,000 American soldiers. They argue that the United States has a unique interest in Liberia, since it was founded 150 years […]

WASHINGTON – The latest pseudo-scientific parlor game is pretending that the Little Ice Age didn’t happen.We’re supposed to ignore the historic reality that the world’s mean temperatures dropped sharply by 2 to 4 degrees Fahrenheit from about 1300 until at least 1850 and fell perhaps a freaky 9 degrees below today’s average temperatures in the […]

Have you heard the news? There’s good rockin’ tonight.We’re talking girls in poodle skirts and guys with DA’s. Moondoggy’s got his old man’s Buick, so maybe later we can cruise down to the soda shop for a burger and a malted.Question authority? We don’t do that anymore, Daddy-O. Haven’t you heard? The ’60s have been […]