Kass: Right to remain silent
When you heard about that southern Illinois couple winning a $218 million lottery prize — and keeping it a secret for weeks — did you think about what you would have done?Would you have tried to keep...
View ArticleKASS column: Who else, Mr. President
When President Barack Obama hauled off and slapped American small-business owners in the mouth the other day, I wanted to dream of my father. But I didn’t have to close my eyes to see my dad. I could...
View ArticleKass: Things get foggy for Democrats
When President Barack Obama asked stoners Harold & Kumar to help with his message, the inevitable was bound to happen.And it did, dude.The first two days at the Democratic National Convention have...
View ArticleKass: It's all about love
For all the children who should be loved always, a kiss more precious than anything wrapped in a box.For every couple who adopts a child to save a life. For every young woman who has given up her child...
View ArticleCommentary: Mr. Shawty's baby mamas
I can’t believe I’m actually going to type the words “reality TV has hit a new low.”But it has, with “All My Babies’ Mamas.”If you aren’t already depressed about American culture and the entertainment...
View ArticleCommentary: 'Zero Dark Thirty' nails it
You know the beginning and you know the end, but it’s the way director Kathryn Bigelow tells the middle in her riveting movie “Zero Dark Thirty” that amazed me.I hope you see it. I’m going to see it...
View ArticleCommentary: A sniper, a hero and a woman
Lyudmila Pavlichenko was a hunter.She tracked men and she killed them. And no woman was ever better at it.She’d hide under bushes in the snow. Or she’d find a burned-out building and watch in the gray...
View ArticleCommentary: Jackson didn't read his own book
There’s no way America can fully understand the odd expenditures of guilty former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. — like those $7,058 stuffed elk heads — without reading a special book.It’s called “It’s...
View ArticleCommentary: Rand Paul stood for civil liberties
Republican Sen. John McCain is pushing 80 now, but he still has those jaws and the Teddy Roosevelt teeth that look as if they could chomp through a baseball bat.Yet no matter how vital his bite, the...
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Commentary: New pope should heed Savannah's Flannery O'Connor
Jorge Bergoglio, the son of Italian immigrants born in Buenos Aires, doesn’t fit the image of a high and mighty churchman in charge of an empire of more than 1 billion people.He’s a humble man and, at...
View ArticleCommentary: Dear TV news: It's OK to say 'we don't know'
Here’s an idea for CNN, Fox News and all the other TV news shops running those ominous crawl lines under their breathless broadcasts of the Boston Marathon bombings.I’m talking about those infuriating...
View ArticleCommentary: Patience, please
If you’re looking for the big speech about the Boston Marathon bombings and the motivations of the Tsarnaev brothers, don’t worry. You won’t have to wait long.Americans demand instant analysis, and we...
View ArticleCommentary: Football is on its deathbed
With all that college beef on parade this week, the NFL draft is a wonder of sports marketing, a televised pageant for the multibillion-dollar American football industry.But there’s something football...
View ArticleCommentary: How immigrants become terrorists
If you’re the child of an immigrant, like me, or perhaps an immigrant yourself brought here as a child, you know what it’s like to have one foot planted in the old world and the other planted in the...
View ArticleCommentary: Obama does Chicago
Dogged by scandal, and with his press secretary presumably now curled up in the fetal position and breathing into a brown paper bag, it’s obvious President Barack Obama is in need.Our president must...
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