Clint Eastwood has had it up to here with sensitivity. ''A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness,'' he recently told The New York Times. ''. . . The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so'' -- and here, he gave a make-my-day grimace -- ``sensitive.''
In 1996, as a freshman House member, I wrote the Defense of Marriage Act, better known by its shorthand acronym, DOMA, than its legal title. The law has been a flash-point for those arguing for or against same-sex marriage ever since President Clinton signed it into law. Even President-elect Barack Obama has grappled with its language, meaning and impact.
The message sent over the weekend may have been unintentional, but it was nonetheless powerful. While the candidates to chair the Republican National Committee prepared for a debate on Monday sponsored by Americans for Tax Reform, a Reagan-era group, the Democrats leaked word that their next national chairman would be Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia.
OUR OPINION: Duplicity in administration policy for help after natural disasters
OUR OPINION: Next president must reinvigorate Department of State
OUR OPINION: Both sides must give a little to resolve salary impasse
Florida faces increasing pressure from falling state revenues, and the Legislature is meeting in a special session to try to balance the budget. In the past year, the budget has been reduced by more than $4 billion. Additional cuts to programs and services must be made with care.
My partner and I went to see The Adding Machine at GableStage recently. Having usually been disappointed in the new musicals of the past 30 years, our hopes were not high. So we were shocked that we loved it.
OUR OPINION: Powerball a gamble for some, a sure thing for lawmakers
The case for pay hikes for federal judges has been made so often that Chief Justice John Roberts prefaced h...
OUR OPINION: State mustn't compromise on teacher-training standards.
OUR OPINION: Adopting strict safety rules at NASA can save lives
OUR OPINION: Special session's limited focus gambles on state's future
It is unhappily ironic that the people who have the biggest effect on property owners often are elected by ...
OUR OPINION: Feds liked inmate's testimony, until she cried rape
President-elect Barack Obama has so far said nothing about the war raging between Israel and Hamas in Gaza ...
For observers of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict committed to a peaceful and lasting two-state resolution,...
Shortly before his profoundly anti-American speech of Jan. 1, Raúl Castro, at the time in Brazil, in...
HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Shamiso Mushonga, eight months' pregnant with her third child, feels like a prisoner in...
News that Dan Abrams, former anchor and top executive with MSNBC, is launching a new PR firm that will hire...
An economic adage asserts that whenever the United States sneezes, Latin America catches a cold. A number o...
Healthcare, says the man most concerned with that 17 percent of America's economy, can be ''a nation-ruinin...
When the Miami-Dade County Community Relations Board (CRB) celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2003, Henry K...
After the past eight years it is now clear why the Founding Fathers were concerned about religion's influen...
Re Miami-Dade County Commission chair Dennis Moss' Jan. 3 letter A 'new day' for public transit in Miami-Da...
The front page of the Jan. 4 Miami Herald was absolutely classic. Here we have a photograph of a Miami Dolp...
We hear so much these days about the human tragedy of foreclosures. What we don't hear is what happens to f...
Unless Dania Beach City Manager Ivan Pato broke the law or a major city rule, firing him nine days before h...
At Planned Parenthood, we know that abstinence-only programs are ineffective and put youth at risk. A recen...
The United States has entered the era of the experiment. President-elect Barack Obama is putting forward an...
For weeks the U.S. and international media have been following the story of Bernard Madoff and his ''giant ...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 5 percent to 20 percent of the U.S. population...
The spreading war in Pakistan and Afghanistan is driving journalists into exile and threatening those count...
I call it the little room. In most cases it's actually not that small, but my claustrophobia seems to kick ...
Rumors persist that President-elect Barack Obama is trying to quit smoking. I hope they aren't true. The na...
It was in Chile, sometime in the early 1960s, that I saw my first Pinter play. That's where and when I firs...
It's been barely a month since Ray Sansom was sworn in as Florida's new speaker of the House, and the Desti...
From the voluminous, still-to-be-indexed FBI wiretaps of Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich: The governor: ``...
The latest version of Florida's Big Sugar buyout was described by Gov. Charlie Crist as ``nothing short of ...
If you're like most Americans, you probably weren't dabbing tears from your eyes while listening to the woe...
(Previously unpublished minutes of a closed-door brainstorming session at the Republican Governors Associat...
On Tuesday, more than 64 million Americans voted for a black guy with a strange name to be their next presi...
An Election Day prayer for the Sunshine State: Dear Lord, have mercy on Florida. Please don't let it happen...
She says the only Jew she knew was Jesus. There were no Jews around her in Bad Toetz, the West German villa...
I like stuff as much as the next guy. My closet is stuffed with stuff, my shelves groan with stuff, boxes f...
At one level, it sounds like a very bad joke. In September, a safe-haven law took effect in the state of Ne...
I was crammed into a middle seat. The guy in front was practically in my lap, and I had my arms drawn in ti...
We should be ashamed of how poorly we have treated President George W. Bush. That, believe it or not, is th...
They'll be back. Don't think for a minute that they won't. These things run in cycles, and death in politic...
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