Suzanne Fields from CaglePost.com Columns by Suzanne Fields from CaglePost.com http://rss.caglepost.com/columns.aspx?name=Suzanne+Fields Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://rss-net.sf.net/ Lessons From A Past Protest BERLIN - The righteous rage in the streets of Tehran is familiar to Berliners. They recall their own demonstrations that doomed the hated Berlin Wall two decades ago. Berliners, hopeful and sympathetic, see lessons in their past for the demonstrators... http://www.caglepost.com/article/81b74902-b604-4578-b083-7febdd5d8dfc.html Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Glass Ceilings Aren't Glass Slippers You don't have to be from Venus or Mars to notice that Sonia Sotomayor was appreciated more for her Hispanic roots than for female gifts. That's how President Obama introduced her. Firsts are firsts, after all, and Sandra Day O'Connor was followed by... http://www.caglepost.com/article/9eb6c08e-26f6-48ef-bef6-f0a7beb0d408.html Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT A Bad Week For Old Blighty LONDON - This is not Britain's finest hour. The expense-account scandal has exposed rot at the core of the Parliament, where greedy members abused their perks to use taxpayer largess to, among other things, clean out a moat, remodel a second home, bu... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b82d9715-a286-493f-91fc-4c54c7dff2f9.html Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT No Slouching Toward Confirmation Nothing so polarizes the nation as a nomination to the Supreme Court. Advise and consent is often more like divide and confront, rarely eliciting our best debates. "Borking" a candidate has entered the lexicon of tactics for savaging a nominee by exa... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8f2f123b-8bf1-460d-b432-fd54c28ef38f.html Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT An Appeal To Survival Ethics Washington is a company town, and what the company makes best is politics and policy. Sometimes the politics is "unprecedented," as certain historians called the duel between President Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney. Obama and Cheney arg... http://www.caglepost.com/article/28d29eb8-304d-4ec7-b19b-eb86ea67755b.html Fri, 29 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT A Courtship or Bibi and Obama Diplomacy is like courtship, with its rituals to keep passions in check. Both diplomacy and courtship pose tests to see whether a meeting of the minds can turn into a tentative relationship of the hearts and into a proper engagement leading to a unio... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5f3501dc-1352-4f4b-a2ea-f76c8800932f.html Fri, 22 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT When Shame Yields to Resilience John Edwards wears the scarlet letter on his tailored Armani suits. The bold letter "A" is not embroidered with fine needlework such as Hester Prynne sewed for herself. Neither is it reflected on his chest like the "A" the townspeople of Salem though... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2b6b2f4a-4af4-457d-9eeb-c5a1e2619eff.html Fri, 15 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Souter, Specter And A Soft Shoe Souter & Specter sounds like a vaudeville song and dance team, stuck in Cleveland and still dreaming of playing the Palace. You can almost hear their Peoria humor and see their old soft shoe. "Did you hear the one about how John Sununu was dispatched... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8c622cb4-6c6f-4066-970f-5112612bb512.html Fri, 08 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Souter, Specter And A Soft Shoe Souter & Specter sounds like a vaudeville song and dance team, stuck in Cleveland and still dreaming of playing the Palace. You can almost hear their Peoria humor and see their old soft shoe. "Did you hear the one about how John Sununu was dispatched... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b2d35746-a189-4c30-b0e9-bd68586d2d61.html Fri, 08 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Banality Of Preening Hannah Arendt was wrong. Evil is never banal. Evil is fascinating, provocative and mind-focusing. Adolph Eichmann was probably a bore at a Nazi dinner party, a dull bureaucrat following orders, but his acts forever fascinate the human mind. We try bu... http://www.caglepost.com/article/11245afc-355d-493a-90ed-80ee1c586f65.html Fri, 01 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT More Than A Silly Strip Search When she was a 13-year-old student at Safford Middle School in Arizona, Savana Redding was strip-searched by school officials in search of - this is no joke - ibuprofen. Now she is suing the district and the officials for violating her Fourth Amendme... http://www.caglepost.com/article/eff45027-29ac-4b16-94b2-ab69473e37a0.html Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Honor Thy Veterans A guest at a cocktail party in Cleveland Park, the fashionable Washington neighborhood of middle-class liberals ("progressives," they want to be called this year), tells about two young men of her acquaintance who happily traded military service for ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/16a86dc7-da5c-4771-b8b9-1966b95eaf91.html Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Calling Shots Requires Precision Language matters. President Barack Obama learned that in time to give the command to slay Somali pirates when they threatened imminent death for Capt. Richard Phillips, their American hostage. This was no time to go wobbly, indulge weakness in the kn... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f068d9dc-0e32-41a0-8895-63dd79c94cb8.html Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Mom In Chief As Marie Antoinette Michelle Obama set just the right example as the mom in chief. She made no speeches about Afghanistan or the stimulus for the global economy, but returned from a boffo trip to London and Europe with better press notices than her husband. She visited ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6ffc9822-8405-482d-ad3e-1245cab9e865.html Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Cultivating Her Own Garden Wonder Woman she's not. She has Wonder Woman's good biceps, as we've seen in the photographs, but she's hard to picture in red, white and blue tights and starred spangles. Nor is she Jackie Kennedy, with Jackie's perfect taste. Jackie would never hav... http://www.caglepost.com/article/45cc2fbe-786a-41e9-8430-ef07ed282d0a.html Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Indelicate Exposure Like the beat beat beat of the tom-tom, like the tick tick tock of the clock, like the drip drip drip of the raindrops, a voice within me keeps repeating, Obama Obama Obama. With all due apologies to the author, Cole Porter's lyrics of "Night and Day... http://www.caglepost.com/article/caa311e6-2ff3-4c80-9c0b-b7de541ea965.html Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Red Meat for Dinner The conservatives in party frocks and black tie were restless. They were hungry and thirsty. The bread had been devoured, the wine bottles were empty, and the speaker had not yet begun. There was one speech and one hour to go until dinner was served.... http://www.caglepost.com/article/cbc4bc06-9174-4b25-bb1b-be9c1b5ff960.html Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Women's Work Is Never Done Barbie, believe it or not, is 50 and still a dish. A doll is only a doll, but Barbie illustrates how over the past five decades women have become a touchstone for judging what freedom really means. How women are treated in different countries tells y... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f4e6a3fa-e768-4918-b8e4-568331ed37a9.html Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Slings And Arrows On The Way Barack Obama may be becoming presidential at last. The campaign mode of supplication and imitation is fading. The new president has done his Abraham Lincoln shtick, train ride and all. He's no longer tempted to make his Saturday radio address an imit... http://www.caglepost.com/article/44f00df2-66ff-40e0-b6e7-522b9e8f1ec7.html Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:00:00 GMT Royalty Ain't What It Used To Be The rock group Hinder sings that "our homecoming queen was a lot like you and me ... just somebody's daughter." But that was before George Mason University elected a drag queen to reign over homecoming. Ryan Allen, known professionally as Reann Balls... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5df07f77-0b80-4d55-884f-6c26f0366b49.html Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Obama Meets The Real Hamilton MARIGOT, St. Martin - Barack Obama is wintering in the Caribbean. His visage adorns T-shirts everywhere on this small dot in the Leeward Islands beyond the eastern tip of Puerto Rico - T-shirts worn by black, brown and white folk, natives and tourist... http://www.caglepost.com/article/95ef6bce-db32-4d61-9cb9-cfee84ac7fa6.html Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Waking From The Dream Barack Obama is beginning to sound just a wee bit frantic for a man who has been president of the United States for a little more than a fortnight. A month from now, who knows? He got his stimulus package through the Senate, but it was a partisan vic... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d8958e16-120a-4ddc-bb40-852036cbc362.html Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT An 'Obama Effect' On Learning Everybody wants a fix for the crippled system for educating our kids, but we're all alchemists. We think we can discover that elusive perfect formula, the magic bullet, the miracle elixir, the silk purse fashioned from a sow's ear, but all we get are... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ecb6b748-cf5c-4ce2-882c-107a67067487.html Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT A Forked Tongue Over Gaza Der Spiegel, the German newsweekly, came up with the most telling headline on the war in Gaza, its interpretation of the voice of Hamas: "Hurray! We Lost!" This interpretation took a cue from the soccer coach who was fond of telling his team about to... http://www.caglepost.com/article/96492dca-6f72-4df3-9446-8e0735f48694.html Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT The Pomp Passes, Circumstance Lingers In with the new, out with the old. In with the Democrats, out with the Republicans. In with Obamaphoria, out with the relentless Bushbash. The pomp passes, the circumstance lingers on. We sat together under a tent that stretched from coast to coast, ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8ac7adf4-6b75-4bc0-8260-265753c96f71.html Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT We'Re All Ears An inauguration is democracy's version of a coronation. It's democracy that makes the difference. The president wears no crown, carries no scepter, walks unanointed by God. He wears a simple suit, sometimes with an expensive label, but nothing in sat... http://www.caglepost.com/article/323817ef-9ece-44ca-9a4e-647d77cee4e8.html Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT The Sleeping Children Of Israel The president-elect has landed. Like Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama on arriving in Washington headed immediately to the hotel to install his family, where they wait to move first to Blair House and then across the street to the White House. When Linco... http://www.caglepost.com/article/9dd69f77-b0c6-488c-8cc8-f95f7a5d0bda.html Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Out With The Old The old guy with a scythe steps aside for the new babe in a diaper, and our usual reflection for this time of year is one of unusual anticipation of what the babe and the new president will bring us. Hopes are particularly high this year, despite the... http://www.caglepost.com/article/79860931-b610-48b4-824e-bae67776cbe6.html Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Politics And Poetry In Season The holiday season is all ablaze, with lights to brighten the eye and warm the spirit. The candles of Hanukkah, recalling the triumph of the Maccabees in repulsing an army of Syrians who tried to evict the Jews from ancient Israel, twinkle for eight ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3bbf09e1-3a5d-4108-bf23-56863498c03d.html Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT An Empty Stocking For Frau Merkel BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel is suffering a barrage of metaphors, some of them pointed and all of them mixed. So, too, President Nicholas Sarkozy in neighboring France. They're the odd couple of the European Union, usually depicted as friends, b... http://www.caglepost.com/article/fff23027-f460-4e30-865d-bc65f205d8ac.html Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Racism In The Public Schools Nothing dramatizes the two-tier public-education system quite like the announcement by the First Couple that their daughters, 10 and 7, will attend Sidwell Friends, perhaps the elitist of the elite private schools in Washington, tuition $30,000 a yea... http://www.caglepost.com/article/51267a8e-590b-4c4a-81f4-fb13a87381c4.html Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Lessons From Lincoln Barack Obama has been accused of hubris and arrogance for his continuing references of identification with Abraham Lincoln, who by the measure of many was the greatest of all our presidents. "In Lincoln's rise from poverty, his ultimate mastery of la... http://www.caglepost.com/article/13a2c44f-f5fe-4b78-b814-2c86b4e09f5d.html Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Thanksgiving In Transition We're in transition, in more ways than one, and we hold fast to our most traditional holiday season. For all of the recent books celebrating atheism, we still gathered together this week to ask the Lord's blessing: "He hastens and chastens, His will ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2a750635-fdb6-4dda-8b78-c3261b00afa8.html Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Lessons From The Vampire He's handsome and dresses with care, and he's what Joe Biden might call "clean and articulate." Women love him. He's the new beau ideal of the popular culture. But we're not talking about Barack Obama. Men hardly look to politics to find a heroic mod... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e02996b0-47b0-4327-9990-2e73ed6a79ac.html Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT From Victim To Victor In Black America The presidential couples, Laura and George W. Bush and Michelle and Barack Obama, standing in front of the White House, looked buff and comely in their ease and smiles. The president and the president-elect in their dark suits and blue ties and Laura... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d57ad8a3-9bce-4897-8ddb-721c770a7e72.html Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Triumph Of Hope I voted, therefore I am. That's a fair updating of Descartes after a total immersion in politics over an endless presidential campaign. The campaign flattened and fragmented us into categories of gender, race and class. Candidates and their surrogate... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e947cb45-4bb7-4278-8679-6bd3bff0b6ae.html Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Bile, Rage And Sarah Palin Yogi Berra famously observed that "you can see a lot by looking." I know exactly what the great New York Yankee meant. You can hear a lot by listening, too. Over the homestretch of the presidential campaign, I've been spending a lot of time at a reha... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c516d182-7744-4105-a609-1ad4b70274b9.html Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT A Crowded Endorsement Game Not so long ago when you wanted to make a personal endorsement of a candidate for office, even for president of the United States, the ritual was simple. You stuck a sticker on the back bumper of the family car or put up a cardboard sign in the front... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7aa12474-d372-429e-8652-ab4adfa3dc6b.html Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Irrational Exuberance Of November "Throw the bums out!" That's one of the most familiar campaign cries in our history. It's even more effective than Herbert Hoover's slogan of "a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage" and stirs the blood like "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too" neve... http://www.caglepost.com/article/699c413a-6391-4825-843f-ed067495a5b6.html Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT There's Something About Sarah Despite everything John McCain and Barack Obama can do, Sarah Palin continues to be the liveliest of the candidates, now starting the clubhouse turn and about to race down the homestretch. There's only one more presidential debate to endure. By this ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6acd845b-6431-4c13-abd0-7a76809dd419.html Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Curtain On The Last Act Newspaper accounts of past presidential campaigns nearly always reveal the singular moment when the public finally decided who should prevail on Election Day. A foolish remark, a speech not made, an inability to catch an unexpected swing in the publi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7bafec19-61fa-466e-b293-937f55251ed9.html Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Pancake People We have to forget about the end of history. It's the end of economic ideology as we know it that requires thinking outside the box. With conservatives cheering, or at least tolerating, big-government bailouts and more regulation of what was once the ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/9fb61efa-85f1-4ea6-82ea-494e6ab63137.html Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT A Face-Off For The Future The National Organization for Women endorses the Obama-Biden ticket. NOW ought to change its name to WOW. Such stunning independence. A working woman with five children, the governor of a sovereign state, isn't a sufficient accomplishment. Who knew? ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/98f1dd75-2bbd-4d20-988f-4f4618f7c87e.html Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Sarah Palin Squeeze The notabilities of the mainstream media are suffering acute PMS. That's Palin Motherhood Syndrome. Instead of appreciating Sarah Palin as mother, experienced executive and smart politician, they're venting their rage at the multitasking mom. How cou... http://www.caglepost.com/article/fe3907cc-d536-41b4-9063-e95a8eeec1ab.html Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT What Do Women Want Now? Like none before it, this presidential campaign is redefining what it can mean to be a woman. That wizened Austrian doctor who famously asked, "What do women want?" finally concluded that he didn't have a clue. Freud understood, like men before and a... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6ed351a7-23e1-4441-9c8b-1f27a483bcf6.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Convention(al) Reflections COROLLA, N.C. - It's hard to be a hero in America. John Kerry learned that the hard way. He returned from the war in Vietnam, decorated by his grateful country, and turned on the men he had left behind, accusing them of crimes and atrocities. Years l... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ea20a407-9849-4cc4-8fda-9842664f2560.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Lady Dithered There's nothing mellow about Hillary Clinton. She's the greatest polarizer since Richard Nixon. Her defenders are fierce, her detractors ferocious. It's not because she's a woman that she's "the might have been" as Democrats gather this week for thei... http://www.caglepost.com/article/17fe3342-c172-4527-973a-8884341ad06b.html Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Lessons From Literature Like Dorian Gray, John Edwards had a painting of himself in the attic, absorbing all the wrinkles from a dissolute life, freeing him to campaign for the presidency fresh, perfectly coiffed and without a trace of a care on his brow. Now we watch the m... http://www.caglepost.com/article/218be1e7-67d8-4491-bc14-d923a3dd0036.html Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Hardball And Hard Calls Britney Spears, blah blah blah. Paris Hilton, blah blah blah. Faces of presidents on dollar bills, blah blah blah. Every presidential campaign has its silly season, and we're in one now. This is hardly the first such season. When George Washington ch... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3204b74d-5405-4679-8899-5eea28da99ab.html Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Tinseltown Transformations "Hollywood conservative" is regarded in most places as an oxymoron, and in Hollywood a "conservative" is an alien from outer space. But a few aliens are prospering. Jon Voight, who bought the left-wing politics of the 1970s - and won an Oscar for his... http://www.caglepost.com/article/eb1fb30a-c6ef-4253-ab66-1967c8fa321e.html Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Distractions For Obama In Berlin The Germans were ecstatic when Barack Obama landed in Berlin. They called him the "American Idol," a political superstar they expected to walk on the River Spree. He didn't walk on water, but he didn't disappoint. He promised to remake the world wher... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5d127f63-d768-40c3-aacf-ca8de13188f3.html Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Spectacle In Berlin Barack Obama is a man in a hurry. He had barely quieted the criticism of his using the presidential seal with his name on it as a prop for his speeches before he suggested that he wanted to follow Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton to Berlin to make a sp... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d037480c-267b-42ed-816d-b9d79d668d1e.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Halftime Entertainment How clever of Barack Obama to schedule his acceptance of his party's nomination in the Denver Broncos stadium, which seats 75,000 fans. We'll get the halftime entertainment without having to sit through the football game (or a wardrobe malfunction). ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d2aeb1ab-f1e3-4cba-9099-babcf31b9bd7.html Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Sparklers For The Fourth I've always wondered how we might have celebrated Independence Day if it had fallen on the Fourth of February. But summer it is, and good, because summer liberates the spirit like no other season. We ride waves from sea to shining sea, light barbecue... http://www.caglepost.com/article/76aaea73-db4b-4dcd-af3f-ef23cd50369c.html Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Heart of Darkness If you had met him, you might think he "had kicked himself loose of the earth" and "knew no restraint, no faith and no fear." He was once perceived as "remarkable" and a man of great promise, but had descended into unspeakable madness in the heart of... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b5738d63-294d-41b6-aca2-bacadeb7d4a5.html Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Huckabee On The Chautauqua In Washington a few years ago, the city was decorated with party animals. In this political town, the animals were elephants and donkeys. Artists, schoolchildren and almost everyone with a talented paintbrush decorated the animals with motifs of thei... http://www.caglepost.com/article/06cb69d4-0ad6-4ad6-9866-9e03cb66248a.html Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:00:00 GMT A Tree In Amsterdam AMSTERDAM - I climbed the narrow, steep steps to the attic of the Anne Frank House to look out the window at the tree that gave a young girl hope. The room is claustrophobic, as are all the rooms in this famous annex that was home for eight people hi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b6b465e3-9108-4858-bf78-1f6e3dd43f9c.html Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:00:00 GMT Faith Beyond The Atlantic BERLIN - The religious skirmishes in the American presidential war sometimes sound almost medieval, and it's probably true, as Mitt Romney said, that the cathedrals of Europe stand more as postcard backdrops than places where Europeans kneel in praye... http://www.caglepost.com/article/39f8ccb9-e47a-4079-bb08-a04681ea3433.html Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:00:00 GMT Isn't That Just Like a Man? The balance of power between men and women has changed radically as Hillary Clinton has moved from first lady to senator to candidate for president, but the cliches persist: Neither the woman nor the country is ready for a female commander in chief. ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/406469e3-2a40-4983-aa6e-4835752bc522.html Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:00:00 GMT Wanted: "A Five-Cent Synthesis" Once upon a time, the university encouraged students to think big across the centuries, to read and study the best that had stood the test of time. The ivy-covered tower was a place to open the mind, but not so wide that brains fell out. Now that the... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1a377af7-db5d-4621-b185-c4bae737d304.html Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:00:00 GMT 'Death, Be Not Proud' -- The Poets And A Media Hero Dying Young I was looking out on Chesapeake Bay, sipping a chilled white wine and nibbling a pear plucked from a tree outside my window when I heard that Tim Russert was dead. I didn't know him, but like everyone else who follows politics, I recognized him as a ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2091ce68-43aa-4a80-9c5f-9c960d75ecc6.html Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT American Politics Through A Glass, Darkly BERLIN - An American won't easily recognize politics at home as seen from Europe. Even our British cousins often look through a glass, darkly. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, distilled to their essence, were easier to understand. Liked him, didn't ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/abe6fd8a-1e39-425c-b1f9-9262bd3507f9.html Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT A Path To Purpose "The Path to Purpose" sounds like the title of an autobiography of Barack Obama or John McCain. But it's not. It's a sad story about children who never get started on that path. These are children of the "purposeless" generation, and if that sounds t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/04fd3ff3-740d-4d78-ae1d-7ded0b1fb628.html Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Labor Pains In London LONDON - The Brits seem to have more fun in their politics than we do - more eccentric personalities, steamier scandals and their newspapers don't take themselves or the scandals as seriously as ours do. But there's no shortage of eccentric personali... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e1bb9ecf-40d3-4b9f-b244-0053db9c06d2.html Fri, 30 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Rock The Ignorance The youth vote is rockin' if not rollin'. Young voters who blog - and there are lots of them - boast they're the voting bloc that's hot. "Young voters are the new pink," a Rock the Vote blogger shouts. "Or the new orange? The new indigo?" They're lik... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4306db89-e8e5-4dc4-bcf1-d5211711aec6.html Fri, 23 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Up Close And Public Power, money, sex, politics. Hillary Clinton is the ex-wife at the table where her ex-husband sits with his new wife. They've come together for the sake of the children to iron out as amiably as they can the specifics of separation. Hillary's the lad... http://www.caglepost.com/article/80763cb0-19a7-4725-9e98-37a1d96f9fee.html Fri, 16 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Playing Performance Politics Are we having fun yet? The run-ups to the voting in Indiana and North Carolina kept Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama working on their performance art (and who knew that Ron Paul was still in the Republican race, but he won 7 percent of the vote in In... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e53f39f5-1d9b-4cca-9561-0d85c9491bcd.html Fri, 09 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Not Quite Road Kill: Hillary Wins 'What Was Lost Before' Hillary Clinton has been left for dead by most of the pundits, many of whom more or less openly yearn for consummation of their passionate love affair with Barack Obama. These pundits look to each other for constant reassurance. They didn't get it Tu... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e57196c0-07b5-4c8c-83d5-dbe3d7a32b6c.html Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Living Legacy of Maggie Thatcher: How The Politics of Conviction Saved Britain If it's true, as Marc Antony observed over the bier of Julius Caesar that "the good that men do is oft interred with their bones," Margaret Thatcher is an exception proving the rule. Maggie, at 82, is still very much with us, and the bones of her leg... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f95988f2-8226-4e43-acd6-5831037d2540.html Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT Closing The Gap on God John McCain skipped the forum on faith at Messiah College. That gave more time for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to spar with each other over who was holier than thou - smart. The Democratic candidates continue to trivialize faith with superficial... http://www.caglepost.com/article/be192f2d-abe9-4aff-9172-e331e5920754.html Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT A Hard Icon For A Soft Age: Pope Benedict Comes With An Ancient Rebuke Pope Benedict XVI is an odd man for our season. We hardly live in a religious age, or even in a time of minimal regard for concerns of the soul. But when the pope visits the United States this week, he will be a welcome visitor for more than hundreds... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b679f9e0-6d39-4d47-b02a-47950b820c6b.html Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Ignorant Fool's Errand: How We're Encouraging The High School Dropouts It's a lot later than we think. We're raising an illiterate and uneducated generation, and there's more to come. 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T... http://www.caglepost.com/article/602160da-43a5-41a0-b6bd-2a6c984eb6cc.html Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMT An Old Argument In New Clothes: 'Popular Prosperity' Still Rankles Certain Elites One of the most influential books of our generation, a polemic against consumerism, "commercialism" and greed, turns 50 years old this year. And still the argument lives, continuing to tangle traffic at the crowded intersection of politics and cultur... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7ef3237d-66d0-490b-8d91-26512cc59183.html Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMT Looking For Mr. Good Enough Politics and the street fight between Hillary and Barack Obama aren't the only games in town. A bachelor acquaintance of mine, a prosperous man in his 40s, was new in town and wanted to meet the love of his life, to marry, and become a father and cit... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ec05e727-f7cb-459e-a1a9-15de8364390c.html Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT This Just in From Venus: Hillary's The Tough One, Obama's The Nice One The Democratic candidates have landed, just in from somewhere out there in the stars. The surprise is that Hillary's from Mars, and Barack Obama's from Venus. She's tough; he's nice. She's strident; he's soothing. She insists that she's hard enough -... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3cf6da4b-401d-4e63-bc10-cf6d9e551861.html Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT Tempest In A Pastepot: Are We Listening To What Candidates Say? Words! Words! Words! I'm so sick of words! I get words all day through; First from him, now from you! Is that all you blighters can do? 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