Each of us, even identical twins, has his own unique mother. So the relationship each child in a family has to his mother is different from that of every other child in that family - even though the mother is the mother to every one of her children.

Each of...

At the end of Wednesday's PA debate - disastrous on many fronts - Obama needed to make his own version of the following closing statement - written the day before that debate and sent to his staff at that time:

My fellow Americans, particularly those who will vote in...

ee cummings knew how to play with words, with love. He wrote often about the number one, and once said that one is not half two but that two is half one. It is in that spirit, not of love but of believing that two is half one, that I...

I voted for Barack Obama in the primaries and my wife voted for Hillary Clinton (though she notes her vote was not against Obama). We completely agree, however, that we're wholeheartedly against Bill Cunningham and all those who support his tactics. We think there will be more hatred to come,...

Senator Clinton is not preaching to the choir, celestial or not. Her attempt Sunday to mock Senator Obama was not only ineffective; it was profoundly unpresidential. I doubt that her pseudo prayer meeting hurt Obama, certainly not the way President Bush's mocking antics hurt those who voted for, and those...

The Democratic Presidential Debate on February 21 finally clarified the essential difference between Senators Clinton and Obama. First, they are similar on matters of policy - domestic and foreign. The differences between them, as in mandatory health insurance, are minimal. Even regarding Iraq, despite Obama having been against the invasion...

If Clinton and Obama remain too cautious to promote impeachment, they must advocate blocking President Bush at every turn. Otherwise, business as usual remains in place and change will be even more difficult for either of them to implement on day one.

Each candidate claims to be...

Dear Senator Clinton,

You have had many chances to revise your story about your terrible vote to authorize President Bush to attack Iraq. Others in the Senate, 23 Senators as I recall, voted to not grant him that authority. Since that time several other Senators...

There is no doubt that Barack Obama is inspiring. His primary victory in South Carolina was inspiring in itself, and his speech later that evening was more so. His vision of an America less divided and better able to tolerate differences while we search for common ground is exhilarating. To...

David Brooks is handsome; he's just not that smart and too often is wrong. Look at all the ink he's wasted over the years supporting Bush in Iraq and Bush everywhere else. Recently, however, he's been kvelling (though he's probably not Jewish) over Barack Obama as the great white hope,...

What follows is parable anticipating 2008. It is inspired my wife's observation that George W. Bush is like the worst boyfriend ever, and written from that perspective.

Once we figure out that we have a bad boyfriend, we have to dump him if we can. But then we get into...

Nancy Pelosi and George W Bush have something dangerous in common: they both ignore the voice of the American people. In November 2006 the people voted for change. Both Pelosi and Bush responded by not changing at all: she kept impeachment off the table; he sent more troops...

When the U.S. exploded the first atomic bomb in 1945, J. Robert Oppenheimer -- its inventor -- thought of the Bhagavad Gita and exclaimed, "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one. Now...

Congressman Pete Stark should never have had to apologize to anyone for what he said about George Bush having soldiers killed for his "amusement." He was following in a long tradition of people who eventually understood what happens when power becomes perverse. Shakespeare put the following epigram into...

People have been writing me recently to ask my thoughts about Petraeus and his relationship to Bush. It is pretty simple, really. In David Petraeus, George W. Bush has found his new Dick Cheney -- a man who can speak for him in an articulate way -- and stand up...

It's the future we need to worry about. Imeachment is important for the future as much as it is to right the wrongs committed by Bush et. al. Because of how psychologically compromised he is, Bush remains a danger to the nation and the world. Here is the link...

It was exciting to be invited by the Edwards campaign to participate in a discussion with the candidate by phone. Time and date were set aside and I eagerly awaited my chance to join with fellow supporters nationwide and with the candidate himself on Saturday afternoon - at least in...

What is the purpose of a timetable for Iraq? Is it to set limits on the President? If so, then Congress should cut off funding for the war immediately. Otherwise, when they say timetables express the will of the American people who don't like the war, they are being disingenuous....

The February 8, 2007 New York Times editorial on Lisa Nowak goes far in recommending that NASA officials reevaluate their psychological screening procedures for astronauts. It notes, however, that after initial screening, "there are no formal psychological evaluations during their years of service thereafter."

Lisa Nowak had no passengers in...

The only meaningful SOTU would be for Bush and Cheney to resign, to declare that they have lost the Iraq war and that they need a woman - in this case, Nancy Pelosi - to clean up after them. Bush and Cheney are bad boys, destructive delinquents dressed in suits...