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Time for triage; set aside self-interests

March 17 at 1:44 a.m.

It's time for serious triage if we're going to manage America's part in righting the world's staggering economy. In normal times, hospital emergency rooms treat whatever comes in the door. But when disaster strikes and cases streaming in the door are threatening to overwhelm the facility, someone is assigned to sort them: This patient needs immediate help, this one can wait a bit, an aspirin will fix this one.

  • Judicial credibility is at stake in case

    March 6 at 1:39 a.m.

    By any measure of common sense and the appearance of fairness, West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Brent Benjamin had no business hearing a case involving the man who spent $3 million to get him elected.

  • Bipartisanship has died a slow death

    March 3 at 1:40 a.m.

    Bipartisanship died last week after a long illness, victim of ideological polarization. The malignancy started almost 40 years ago with Richard Nixon's Southern strategy, festered through the '70s and metastasized in the late '80s. By 1992, bipartisanship was terminally ill, but it lingered on weakly for another decade.

  • Psychology drives the world economy

    Feb. 24 at 1:39 a.m.

    In desperate circumstances, saying that things will get better cannot ensure that they will. Cancer? Optimism, prayer, determination can help, but other, more tangible things must happen if it is to be overcome.

  • To be an American is to share sacrifice

    Feb. 17 at 1:41 a.m.

    OK, everybody take a deep breath. President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan has become Congress' and the nation's plan. "Not mine," you say? Oh, yes, it most certainly is everybody's plan, despite the fact that almost all the votes in Congress were from one party. That's what democracy is about. Just as George W. Bush's Iraq war became Congress' and the nation's war.

  • Executing stimulus will test leadership

    Feb. 10 at 1:40 a.m.

    President Barack Obama warned Congress last week that America would face "catastrophe" if members dawdle too long over the economic stimulus bill. For Americans out of work or foreclosed from their homes or whose savings are halved -- meaning almost all Americans -- his use of the future tense may have seemed inappropriate. They are angry and fearful now.

  • Impeachment was a political decision

    Feb. 3 at 1:36 a.m.

    Most people would just as soon hear no more about Rod Blagojevich, the Illinois governor rightfully dispatched by his state's legislature to the political netherworld.

  • Stale debate about abortion gag order

    Jan. 27 at 1:39 a.m.

    Barack Obama's inaugural address was full of brief phrases with long-term implications, replacing his sometimes-soaring campaign rhetoric and political jousting with presidential declarations of intent.

  • Where will Obama land on due process?

    Jan. 20 at 1:41 a.m.

    The hash that the Bush administration has made of the fundamental right of due process has landed unappetizingly on the Obama administration's table.

  • Governing well would be the best revenge

    Jan. 17 at 1:41 a.m.

    Among the many deeply nuanced decisions facing Barack Obama is how to deal with the loud chorus on his left demanding retribution from the departing administration.

  • Declining polls are part of presidency

    Jan. 13 at 1:37 a.m.

    So it begins, the slow but certain leaching away of our approval of Barack Obama's un-started presidency. (Down 4 percentage points since Election Day.)

  • Choosing Warren reflects tolerance

    Dec. 30 at 1:39 a.m.

    Whether you believe that God hears and heeds human prayers, or does not, or deny that a god exists at all, Rick Warren is going to pray on behalf of all of us and our nation on Jan. 20.

  • How can successful people be so dumb?

    Dec. 23 at 1:39 a.m.

    Most of the reviewers of Malcolm Gladwell's latest book take pains to note that one of its two main ideas isn't new at all. In "Outliers," Gladwell demonstrates that extraordinary success, whether fiscal or physical, is rarely the result of innate talent alone. Accidents of timing, just plain luck and unearned opportunities, among other happenstances, play major roles in determining what our society considers its biggest winners, the "outliers" from most of us.

  • Obama is rejecting narrow partisanship

    Dec. 16 at 1:37 a.m.

    It was one of the enduring lines in the history of political punditry. Only days after Bill Clinton's first inauguration, in 1993, terminally funny syndicated columnist Dave Barry, in a throwaway phrase, referred to "the failed Clinton administration."

  • 'Right of conscience' ignores the patients

    Dec. 9 at 1:41 a.m.

    Every exiting president promises a "smooth transition," which mostly means that he'll hand over, with no fiddling around, the house keys, the red telephone, the black satchel and the other accoutrements of office.

  • Enough of blame game with CEOs

    Dec. 2 at 1:37 a.m.

    Having apparently hectored the Big Three auto executives out of their private jets, Congress welcomes them back this week for a recitation of how they plan to turn around in a few months decades of shortsighted management.

  • Pragmatism needs to trump ideology

    Nov. 18 at 1:40 a.m.

    Karl Marx was right about at least one thing: Capitalism sows the seeds of its own destruction. But, of course, so does capitalism's polar opposite, communism.

  • Political pendulum will keep swinging

    Nov. 11 at 1:40 a.m.

    The pendulum that continuously expresses America's centrist political orientation is about to swing once more. Whether it swings as far to the left in the next decade as it did to the right in the last will comfort or distress citizens according to their own degree of distance from the absolute center.

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