COMMENTARY
Commentary: Communism’s enablers still at it
On Nov. 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall was pulled down to the consternation of leftists, who still had faith socialism could work with the right leaders, and to the delight of conservatives, who believed that socialism and communism guaranteed mutually shared poverty.By Cal Thomas , November 07, 2009
Commentary: Tea-baggers were carpetbaggers
The Tea Party wing of the Republican Party had the perfect strategy for upstate New York’s 23rd congressional district:By Ruben Navarrette , November 06, 2009
Commentary: What option is there for Afghan women?
BOSTON — It’s been 11 years since I looked through a photo album smuggled out of Afghanistan by a brave young woman. “This is a doctor,” she said, pointing to one picture. “This is a teacher.” It was impossible to tell one woman from another under the burqas enforced by their Taliban rulers.November 06, 2009
Commentary: When your actions do speak louder
SAN DIEGO — Hotelier Larry Whitten should have known this much: When in New Mexico, do as the New Mexicans do.By Ruben Navarrette , November 05, 2009
Commentary: Not Right-Wing, but still angry for different reasons
EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Tuesday’s elections were a rebuke to the right wing and a warning to Democrats.By EJ Dionne , November 05, 2009
Commentary: Disclosure being used as liberal coercion
SEATTLE — Conservatives here, a droll minority, say that under this city’s quota system, when a conservative enters the city, one already here is required to leave. They also say Washington is actually two states: There is what you can see from atop this city’s Space Needle — meaning, this liberal city — and there is everything else, extending to the Oregon, Idaho and Canadian borders.By George Will , November 02, 2009
Commentary: In Dallas, watch your language
SAN DIEGO — What’s next? A resurgence of segregated swimming pools, where they only let Mexican-Americans swim on Fridays because they drain the pool on Saturdays? A return to segregated movie theaters?By Ruben Navarrette , November 02, 2009
Commentary: Vaccine supply and the public option 
My internist told me he is now using the technique he learned many decades ago in the military, when supplies of vaccine were short and they had to split doses. I wouldn’t even think of asking. But I did ask my rheumatologist, since rheumatoid arthritis is one of those things that makes getting the flu worse. He would have been happy to give me a flu shot — I’m talking regular flu here, not the swine kind — but he was out.
By Susan Estrich , October 31, 2009
Commentary: Here’s a dose of realism in today’s war on drugs
WASHINGTON — During his immersion in his new job, Gil Kerlikowske attended a focus group of 7-year-old girls and was mystified by their talk about “farm parties.” Then he realized they meant “pharm parties” — sampling pharmaceuticals from their parents’ medicine cabinets. What he learned — besides that young humans have less native sense than young dachshunds have — is that his job has wrinkles unanticipated when he became director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
October 30, 2009
Commentary: What does the FHA think it is doing?
Exactly who made Bernadine Shimon think that she could buy a new house shortly after declaring bankruptcy and losing another home to foreclosure? The American taxpayer, that’s who.
October 30, 2009
Cartoon by Dave Granlund
By Dave Granlund , October 17, 2009
Commentary: Republican women — hear them
WASHINGTON — As the Republican Party continues its pilgrimage through the desert, its leaders may be missing the oasis for the vale of tears.
By Kathllen Parker , October 17, 2009
Commentary: The real winner in Oslo
My love of lo these many years came into the room and asked what I was working on. I detailed some topics, enthralled as usual with my own brilliance, but she scoffed at them all. She said that if she were writing a column, she would have something to say about how the Nobel Peace Prize committee got matters a bit wrong. Instead of citing Barack Obama for things intended, it should have cited the American people for things done. After all, we elected him.
By Richard Cohen , October 14, 2009
World Opinion: On the Irish referendum
An excerpt from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States .
By Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo , October 14, 2009
Commentary: A sheriff who is off the rails
SAN DIEGO — Joe Arpaio, who calls himself “America’s toughest sheriff,” has gone rogue. Consumed by ego, accused of racial profiling, and running roughshod over the federal government, this incurable media hound is flirting with another title: “outlaw.”
By Ruben Navarretteopinion@wctrib.com , October 14, 2009
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