Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.

I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix.' I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that it is gone.

The pandering and ignorance-across-party-lines represented by the John McCain-Hillary Clinton united front for a temporary reduction in the gasoline tax should make Americans hold their heads in their hands and moan [...] Please. This is embarrassing. It makes me long for the good old days of debating about flag pins on the lapel.

According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union.

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.