Susan Estrich from CaglePost.com Columns by Susan Estrich from CaglePost.com http://rss.caglepost.com/columns.aspx?name=Susan+Estrich Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://rss-net.sf.net/ Thriller Is there still a revolution about to happen in Iran? Is my state going to run out of money tomorrow, and start printing IOUs? Can the crazy North Koreans really attack Hawaii? Was there a coup in Honduras? Do we care? The short answer to all the abov... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3367740d-7007-4477-a62b-25961bbca4bc.html Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT Don't Cry For Me Spare me the tears, OK? If you want me to respect the privacy of your stupidity, don't expect my sympathy. And whatever you do, I don't want to hear about your agony. South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's admission that he spent the last five days cry... http://www.caglepost.com/article/95f3e413-89a7-4b32-ac22-e127f27c1c45.html Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Gay Rights Rep. Barney Frank, the first member of Congress to be re-elected after coming out, is right in telling gays not to abandon the president. As Frank put it, "The notion that if someone doesn't agree with you 100 percent, then you shouldn't be supportiv... http://www.caglepost.com/article/abba3522-001e-447d-b6dd-080a6ad29b25.html Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Fourth Estate Matt Drudge is obviously not happy: "ABC TURNS PROGRAMMING OVER TO OBAMA; NEWS TO BE ANCHORED FROM INSIDE WHITE HOUSE," his headline screams, in even bigger type than that. I don't blame ABC for one minute for agreeing to be taken over, at least logi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/512116f0-9797-46bc-964a-4f57da8109d0.html Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Worrying About Israel Am I concerned, friends ask me quietly, after we all publicly praise President Obama's monumental Cairo speech. The friends are usually, but not always, Jewish. They are all, like me, strong supporters of the state of Israel. The answer is that of co... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a841ff17-79ea-4df3-bf8b-4dc5ecee6ae5.html Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Imperfect Moments I have hated graduations for most of my life. High school was my best, and it wasn't great: I lost out as valedictorian by one-tenth of a point, and the guys who finished third and fourth behind me both got into Harvard and I didn't. I was heading of... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c19f481d-8390-401e-a6b9-c4b350efa7cb.html Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT It's Not About Ideology "What I have no interest in doing is running GM," President Barack Obama said on Monday, as he assumed ownership of the beacon of free enterprise. "The era of big government is over," then-President Bill Clinton famously declared, and even if no one ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0366f550-f1e7-4e85-92c2-846d02c86ba9.html Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Making Law Don't tell anyone: This is the season when lawyers left and right cross our fingers behind our backs and solemnly swear that judges don't make law. Conservatives insist they adhere to original intent. Liberals insist they do no more than apply the co... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2789ef3c-18e7-4602-bb69-b3f5876ccbba.html Fri, 29 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT What's In A Name? If somebody had told me just a few years ago that a decision saying that gay couples in California are entitled to every right and protection of marriage other than the name would be considered a major loss, I probably would've laughed. It wasn't so ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c0b8d57b-c952-4601-8865-481abb873fca.html Wed, 27 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Dick Cheney? From Rush Limbaugh (who doesn't want the job) to Mike Steele (who wanted it until he got it) back to Dick Cheney? Has anyone heard of new faces, new ideas, "change" - all the things Americans voted for overwhelmingly? The fact that the president was ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a8058cd2-3827-485e-8aaa-ec20d61a8934.html Fri, 22 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Michelle Of It All She is the most popular and most admired woman in the world. She has smarts, beauty, style, a great husband, a great mother, two beautiful children and a very handsome dog. Everyone loves Michelle Obama. Except for half the people I run into every da... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1397e7c8-75a5-49f0-9b8f-cd89c7ebc05b.html Wed, 20 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Speaker Speaks House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is now claiming that intelligence officials misled her about the use of waterboarding when she was briefed in 2002. Previously, it was reported that she, as the ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee at the time, ha... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ed681f59-7da3-4737-957e-b3daa623f38f.html Fri, 15 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Funny and Not Funny The president was funny at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Wanda Sykes, the host, was not. I hate to say that, because I have enjoyed many good laughs watching Wanda Sykes, the actress. Maybe she just got her lines from the wrong person this t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/dd7de329-0be4-4eab-aa78-5d5399e57539.html Wed, 13 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT A Mother's Job "You have so much responsibility. It's just hard work all the time," said Bristol Palin, the new spokeswoman for the Candie's Foundation to prevent teen pregnancy, at an "Event to Prevent" town hall on Wednesday. I've got news for you, Bristol. It ge... http://www.caglepost.com/article/52613239-2a15-4299-8895-f6303014b74a.html Fri, 08 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT A Different Life You expect some people to write a book. You see their name when you're scrolling titles or actually looking at books, and you say, of course he or she would write a book. That was not my reaction when I saw that Quinn Bradlee has a new book out. Quin... http://www.caglepost.com/article/37c06e5f-a70d-47b1-abb4-8f1c759ddaa5.html Tue, 05 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Wash Your Hands Now it's not just your mother telling you or the school nurse, but your president. Wash your hands. Cover your mouth. Don't go to school if you're sick - that'll be tough to enforce! And for goodness sake, take a deep breath. You, too, Mr. Vice Presi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/9248cbbb-d2f0-4502-955b-a6c3ced7c286.html Fri, 01 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT RIP To A GOP The Republicans don't want him. The Democrats do. They would have booted him out. We'll do everything we can to support his re-election. It's a tough day when you leave your party, but being a hero certainly beats being reviled. The truth is that by ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/867bfb67-63a0-4279-8528-e8fa66c42528.html Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT I Had A Dream Her name is Susan Boyle. If you haven't heard of her, you need to listen to her. Consider it my gift to you. Go to YouTube, along with the tens of millions of others who already have, and listen to the voice of an angel - a plump, unemployed, 47-year... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2e78c66c-9139-4329-bd5d-234fb618eeae.html Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Hundred Days Watch out. Everywhere you look, the talking heads are going to be talking about Barack Obama's first hundred days. Did he end the war in Iraq? Not yet. Turn the economy around? I'd have to say not yet. The EPA has been making moves, and there's a new... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5a579901-d50d-487a-acbf-23d53156bc9c.html Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Left Coast Tea Party Last Wednesday, conservatives held coast-to-coast "TEA parties" designed to send the message to Washington and state governments that the partiers feel "taxed enough already." The exercise struck me as more than a little out of touch with the politic... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2892565a-7c08-41cd-98b3-0d6dae571d97.html Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Political Talk Listen to Texas Gov. Rick Perry. "We've got a great union. There's absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that." No, governor, I don't kn... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b6f2d25f-15d2-44b1-8fec-4be08fb0fc06.html Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Second Time Around "I can't say that I know her," the forewoman of Phil Spector's jury told the press after it was over, referring to Spector's victim, Lana Clarkson. Both Clarkson and Spector were on trial for the second time, after the first jury to consider murder c... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1fa6fc89-6805-41f4-a998-12e6a441add5.html Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT About What Happened in Jerusalem I was in elementary school in Swampscott, Mass., when I learned that the Jews had killed Christ. Or so we were told, right around this time of year. Most of the kids in the class just nodded when they heard. It seems they already knew. I was shocked.... http://www.caglepost.com/article/475a40cc-1a62-4fc5-b8e5-2cf8e5cdbad6.html Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Prosecutorial Corruption Corruption is a bad thing wherever you find it, and no profession or institution, from churches on Main Street to banks on Wall Street, is immune. You've got people who abuse the trust of shareholders and people who abuse the trust of voters; you've ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/43ad642a-c8ea-4df2-95e4-09f0807b3d58.html Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Police Work Why is crime down in Los Angeles? Violent crime is down by about 5 percent from last year at this time, which was down from the year before. Unemployment is at 12 percent. If you follow the theories of most fancy criminologists, larger social forces,... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0982c027-80bc-4f21-8d18-3270be8498c6.html Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Mr. Cool He might be nervous and insecure. After all, he's got the biggest, hardest job in the world. It's not like he's been preparing for it all his life; nine years ago he was commuting between Chicago and Springfield, Ill. It's not like he inherited peace... http://www.caglepost.com/article/cf91d014-9942-4875-8c03-fae40633392b.html Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT A Benefit for Rape What's Bill O'Reilly doing at a benefit for rape victims and their families? Helping them raise money. Last time I checked, that's a good thing. I disagree with much of what Bill has to say on most subjects. I think he feels the same way about me. Th... http://www.caglepost.com/article/144588cf-0e88-4f24-82f3-8652975c7d65.html Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Looking for the Line Nothing gets people's attention faster than picketing them at home - which is not necessarily a reason to do it. Last week, at the height of the furor over the AIG bonuses, activists managed to locate the homes of a number of those who momentarily re... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c33d6376-5a32-4622-a6cd-9729a047da80.html Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Republican Vacuum Imagine how different things might be right now if there were a Republican Party. I mean a party like the one led by Ronald Reagan, George Bush or Newt Gingrich; a party with a program, a single set of talking points, and the technological and commun... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b6fd0cc5-bf34-4d7f-9d14-e8e492a8fb69.html Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Ron Silver He was positively infuriating. I e-mailed his then-girlfriend, as the crowd was applauding him at Madison Square Garden in 2004, that I hoped she wasn't dating the (expletive deleted) anymore. She was. Ron hammered me about that e-mail: Did I like a ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/86a45c97-7122-4a5f-b16c-2b439d4af044.html Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT When Is a Plea Bargain Not a Plea Bargain? Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty in federal district court in New York to all 11 counts against him, waiving his right to an indictment, avoiding the humiliation of a trial, and depriving his victims and the public of what might have been a public cours... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3fecde40-1789-458a-a0e1-9ab7debc7951.html Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT March 7 It has a way of sneaking up on me, like the unhappy anniversary it is. Who knew? The first March 7 was a Monday. I was a law student, and my father died in a hospital bed where he had been hovering between life and death for 10 terrible days. Terribl... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c6150a82-ecc3-4a5f-b8a8-c7af9f842251.html Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Real World Of Gay Marriage In an ideal world, gay marriage would be won at the ballot box. Voters would recognize that they have absolutely nothing to lose by allowing their fellow citizens the same rights to marry that heterosexual men and women now enjoy. Even many prominent... http://www.caglepost.com/article/62ed321a-4917-4c46-b2e3-8ae5bf5021f3.html Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:00:00 GMT Rush-Hour Frustration He talks for hours every day. He gets paid to talk. Just talk. Doing it well is no small thing; witness the number of people who have tried to be him, or be the NOT-him, and failed. But he doesn't have to build a coalition. He doesn't need the votes ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2c8c20bf-2613-475b-b732-5e665109a5dd.html Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:00:00 GMT With All Due Respect One of my favorite federal judges used to laugh whenever I began a sentence "with all due respect," because he knew I was about to tell him I thought he was wrong. And he was right. So with all due respect to the longest serving Democrat in the Unite... http://www.caglepost.com/article/cd1b1b5d-6df0-485a-b5b4-e1495828af8a.html Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT The Price Of Playing By The Rules The president deserves the high marks he is getting from the public for his first month in office. Most presidents get to spend their first month putting up the draperies. This one had to spend his picking up the pieces of a collapsing economy. When ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/34731aa6-e9a6-46d1-beb9-d0c08cefe7a0.html Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT With All Due Respect The purpose of being a columnist is not to win friends. It is not to provoke silent nods of agreement. The goal is to strike a chord, hit a nerve - which is to say, at least sometimes, make people mad. Controversy is good, not bad. So you write what ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c2ee5a26-9417-4130-a8ea-e761ff45e04a.html Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Live To Risk Why would someone risk his life by, as the LA Times described, "extending his body away from a motorcycle and grabbing the seat as the motorcycle is upside down, then pulling back aboard as the motorcycle is righted before landing"? Or not. In which ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4b75ac69-73d7-4274-82cb-e8ffa56e57f0.html Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Doctor Obama The patient is in trouble. That much we know. About that everyone is certain. There are mounting job losses, record deficits, banks failing, mortgages underwater, layoffs looming. Last month, we lost as many jobs as there are in the state of Maine. O... http://www.caglepost.com/article/92f689e7-50f1-4bd8-b192-f60304192ac4.html Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT On Her Shoulders, In Her Shoes Ruth Bader Ginsburg is small in stature, but she has very big shoulders. Alongside a generation of women lawyers, I stand on them, with gratitude and pride. The news that the only woman on the United States Supreme Court has been hospitalized for sur... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d9a3fa8b-80bf-40d6-937d-c41b7233ae43.html Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Another Two Bite The Dust It was not a good day for ethics in government. First, White House Performance Chief-nominee Nancy Killefer, who had two nannies and a personal assistant - as we working mothers would say, a really LOT of help for teenagers - withdrew her candidacy a... http://www.caglepost.com/article/58479761-32f6-4475-b83a-402516b14785.html Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Stop Those Checks This is the Republicans' big contribution to our economic recovery: They want to make sure that undocumented immigrants who pay taxes using tax identification numbers don't get a cent of their tax money back in the refunds enacted by Congress. Oh, ye... http://www.caglepost.com/article/95122366-ee27-4344-812b-ea7e3056036f.html Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT History Lessons On Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet soldiers entered the largest Nazi death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Poland and liberated the 7,000 prisoners who were still there, most of them sick and dying. In 2005, for the 60th anniversary of the liberation, the United ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/244dd127-5e8d-4aac-ad9a-c0a57a21e8fb.html Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Caroline's Exit I do not know what ultimately persuaded Caroline Kennedy to withdraw her name from consideration for the U.S. Senate. Maybe it was something about taxes or a housekeeper, the two rumors that seem to have the most "juice" as I write this. To be honest... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6ef13bcf-6a12-4cc0-9bc4-a134ba3d27d4.html Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Teddy I have been holding my breath for a while, sending out little messages, waiting for the updates on Sen. Kennedy. He said he would be there to watch the man he had supported, the carrier of the torch, take his oath as president of the United States of... http://www.caglepost.com/article/14587671-7ebf-48e5-bbfd-841cf45e8703.html Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT What The New President Will Need President-elect Barack Obama will no doubt ask for many things in the coming weeks - from Congress, from the states, from banks and businesses, and from the American people. He will ask for new legislation, new programs, new regulations, not to menti... http://www.caglepost.com/article/274ef0bc-0bbe-4e5b-88e0-929c647945a6.html Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Respect I don't hate George Bush. I never have. I voted against him twice. I disagree with him, sometimes passionately. I think the country is in worse shape now than it was eight years ago, and that history will not be kind to him. I think America's standin... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0eba7be8-a4e9-44ec-a8f0-f5a8e331cd16.html Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT For Love Of Israel "Go back to the oven," the woman in her hijab in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., yelled to the Jewish Americans demonstrating their support for Israel. "You need a big oven, that's what you need." This is why I love Israel and always have. It is because Israe... http://www.caglepost.com/article/06e9b8cb-3fa9-46b9-a938-f076229e552f.html Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Crazy Like A Fox As the weeks pass since Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was publicly drawn and quartered by U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, the man has simply refused to give up. The Energizer bunny has nothing on this guy. I can't say he's earned my respect - respe... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0bec83ce-45c5-4366-a053-64953a50b9ef.html Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Happy New Year ... When I was younger, New Year's was a time fraught with frantic uncertainty revolving around the seemingly critical questions of whether I would have a date and-or something to do. Having nothing to do on New Year's Eve and-or no one to do it with see... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e99ed7f2-d256-4ae7-bf4c-17d86b538b55.html Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT The Christmas Spirit In the eight years since he left the White House, Bill Clinton has worked tirelessly to save the lives of children in some of the most miserable places on the planet. He has traveled to Africa more than most of us travel to see relatives, in order to... http://www.caglepost.com/article/751f58ac-b822-4f24-9719-a880de0ee5f2.html Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Other Marriage Penalty Energy czar-designate Carol Browner's husband does it. So does Health and Human Services Secretary-designate Tom Daschle's wife. Congressman John Dingell's wife has been doing it for years. Should they all be forced to stop and go home and bake some ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b6a0bdd6-da96-4a05-bfe5-27260622e264.html Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Next Senator Kennedy The news that Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the late president and much-dubbed Princess of Camelot, is seeking to replace Hillary Clinton in the United States Senate has set many tongues to wagging. It's all about entitlement, some are saying: What h... http://www.caglepost.com/article/cc69edd5-0b0a-4b76-93e3-3a6e656546da.html Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Dumb And Dumber Trying to sell a Senate seat is dumb. Not realizing that getting caught means you have to give up your seat as governor is dumber. Gov. Rod Blagojevich's business-as-usual attitude the day after he was indicted for putting a price on Barack Obama's S... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0e1af6d3-5345-4992-97d7-46f4d2ee2b2f.html Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Old Media In Los Angeles, where I live, there was plenty of snickering this week about Tribune Company's decision to file for bankruptcy protection. Tribune owns the Los Angeles Times, which in recent years has seen its staff cut even more than its circulation... http://www.caglepost.com/article/af172ba9-046f-4e4e-956b-c141adbf4e14.html Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Where Is John Edwards? Doris Kearns Goodwin could not have asked for more. The author of "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln," published in 2006, is making headlines once again for her foresight, as well as her knowledge of history, in light of Preside... http://www.caglepost.com/article/74a372a2-2fcd-469f-a68b-dec9c55fa3c2.html Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT The "A Team" You can tell a lot about a person by the people who surround them. In theory, the "bigger" you are, the bigger and better the people around you should be. What makes a great leader is a great team. All that. Except that very often, it just ain't so. ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e9d6cf03-7bf0-4a31-a282-d2fac742dffd.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Giving Thanks The woman going up in the medical building elevator with me was so young and beautiful and carefree that it took my breath away. Young and beautiful is not so unusual in Beverly Hills. But carefree? I looked to see if she was carrying a case - a sure... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d9f3621c-279b-4f51-9977-5904d735b52e.html Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Legal Road Ahead The California Supreme Court's decision to hear argument as an "original" matter in three of the lawsuits challenging the adoption of Proposition 8 means the issue of gay marriage will soon be back in the courts. With one Justice voting not to hear t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/204bbd21-b953-42da-ae94-2d81098a3cb8.html Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Leaving Home As the fires burned across Southern California this weekend, the all-news radio station I listen to kept running tape of a guy advising people about what to put in their "grab-and-go" boxes. He was from some insurance association, so - big surprise -... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6c110709-d4d7-4964-904c-038ad087856e.html Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT President Hillary I saw it on election night, as I scrolled through the exit poll that somehow made its way online (at least at cbsnews.com) even before the polls closed in Ohio. It only took a little calculation for the result to be clear: Had the election been a con... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b01fcc22-ef5d-449b-8896-76991b3ae0a0.html Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Sarah Palin Mattered For years I've been dining out on the story of the 1988 vice presidential debate, where Lloyd Bentsen literally cleaned Dan Quayle's clock - "You're no Jack Kennedy" - resulting in a huge increase in his own approval ratings and virtually no bump at ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/119a2799-dda9-44a7-b27c-342b76541680.html Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Bitter End For many California voters, especially those who supported Barack Obama's presidential bid, election night had a bright beginning and a bitter end. The state overwhelmingly supported the next president. There was no "Bradley effect," as it had come t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6edf479f-58fb-4a5e-be5a-62b8f240a966.html Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Yes He Did Four years ago, he was a State senator from Illinois. Four years ago, the idea of electing a black man as president of the United States was a fantasy. This belongs to you, Barack Obama told his supporters. And it did, in the way any presidential vic... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1d690b65-6933-4648-9149-43b4f49bfb9e.html Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Final Days It is time for this election to be over. It is time because it has been going on for what feels like a lifetime, because the final days have been full of noise and fury and very little light, and because we need to start solving problems rather than ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/26cbc254-d16b-41ae-920a-16b2f2bcc8d7.html Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Back Room I have one word of advice for the fancy folks at the Republican National Committee who shelled out $75,000 at Neiman Marcus and $50,000 at Saks Fifth Avenue, among other places, to dress Sarah Palin and family: Loehmann's. And if you want upscale, co... http://www.caglepost.com/article/53a2ec27-5911-4246-be59-fb82d1a037d2.html Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Keep Worrying My Democratic friends want to know when they can stop worrying. The answer is soon, but not too soon. Say around 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 4. And I mean 8 p.m. Pacific time. Barack Obama is ahead right now. Comfortably ahead. Yes, if you look through e... http://www.caglepost.com/article/94728c0c-c62b-4cf8-b77f-b237e34180e0.html Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Final Days Losing a presidential race is not an easy thing. Losing the primary is one thing. But making it to the finals, so close you can almost taste it, and then watching it slip through your fingers is one of those experiences from which few people ever ful... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3c4e148c-e12d-4087-bc8e-d67c87752275.html Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Reilly Rule The night before the Labor Day launch of the 1984 Mondale campaign, John Reilly called a meeting of all of us who would be traveling for the coming months on the plane with the nominee. Reilly's formal title was "Senior Adviser," and while that title... http://www.caglepost.com/article/36fd1090-8e02-4eb6-8558-4ef4322fd213.html Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Say Goodnight, Jesse A Barack Obama victory in less than three weeks will mean many things at home and abroad. It will mean a new team on foreign and domestic policy and new political leadership for both the Democratic Party and the country. And it will mean, finally, th... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7a60a894-6d1b-4e16-aa73-636e2dd9104b.html Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT A Great Line I'm happy to give my friend Madeleine Albright credit for the line, as Starbucks apparently has. But the truth is I've been using it for years in speeches to women about how we need to help each other get ahead in business, politics and academia. Kat... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b10d609a-4166-48aa-95d5-ccd62d491fb1.html Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT A Heartbeat Away For all the Republicans' complaints about Gwen Ifill, the moderator's questions were softballs compared to what Sarah Palin faced from Katie Couric. Ifill did not demand that Palin list (OK, how about just name more than one?) 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There he is in Rwanda, not one of the top spots for August vacations, trying to do something to stop a few million Africans from dying of curable diseases. Far as I can tell, no one wanted to disc... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6792c1cc-ab28-43c5-ba7d-e09ed5105f20.html Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Attack, He Said What does Barack Obama have to do with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton? Absolutely nothing, as far as I can tell. A mentally unstable party girl and an heiress/party girl? Did I miss the part where Obama's father was a hotel magnate, where he couldn'... http://www.caglepost.com/article/83acf6fe-374e-4e4f-a134-9603fbfd3c40.html Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Just One It was early in the morning - very early if you add in the fact that it was a weekend. We had changed gates three times already, hordes of people racing across the terminal as if those who got there first and claimed their space would also get to New... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d4e07eef-63aa-4f02-bea0-6fdae0be691c.html Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Are Newspapers Dying? The Sunday opinion section is gone. So is the book review section. So are literally hundreds of the reporters I have come to respect over years of reading my local paper. What is happening in my hometown is happening in every city across the country.... http://www.caglepost.com/article/dede32ed-2532-4328-a95b-8f2f97fbb9f6.html Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Children In The Middle Good news. Britney and K-Fed have a settlement! Their lawyers were back in court - again - last week to tell the judge in the long-running battle over custody of their two sons that they had agreed that K-Fed would retain custody, Britney would get m... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a2b274db-3c6d-4ad2-a6cd-f3de8266cb6b.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT What To Say When my father died, so many years ago, my heart was broken. And then it got broken again. In the hours and days after his death, I was comforted by family and friends. But I couldn't help but notice who was missing, people I cared about, people I th... http://www.caglepost.com/article/acef0828-43a0-4114-82a9-ad3791dc25d5.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT "Click"-less "Click," we used to call it, that moment when you realized that something was very wrong and, even more important, that it didn't have to be that way. 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He can wake up in an instant - if the phone rings or someone comes to the door - an... http://www.caglepost.com/article/921ee031-1b16-41cc-8ae3-0b2f642e1e60.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT "The Disease Has Exploded" It was the headline you never wanted to see. For nearly two years, I have started my day by checking in on Leroy Sievers to see how he is doing. His "My Cancer" blog on npr.com has become a family of sorts for people living with cancer, for people ta... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5cdac55b-5906-49de-9df6-ec7bf29067f2.html Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Politics of Patriotism Should John McCain have to "defend" his military record? Of course not. But the fact that he served in the military, with distinction, does not mean he's qualified to be president. Should Barack Obama have to explain why he didn't serve in the milita... http://www.caglepost.com/article/918a8ab9-9f62-46b0-b6d9-0558f31d6f67.html Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Beach Wars I don't usually get involved in the squabbles between paparazzi and their prey, not only because I don't want to get hit by either of them, but also because I generally take the position that those who take pictures for money and those they take pict... http://www.caglepost.com/article/9253783e-172e-4333-b1ae-12c0f6711a10.html Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT

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