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KATIE BAIRD
If his warm greeting as you enter the downtown YMCA doesn’t get your attention, his story will.
KATHLEEN PARKER
WASHINGTON – Close your eyes and picture 110 million obese people waddling around America’s sidewalks. You’ll probably want to keep your eyes closed.
EUGENE ROBINSON
WASHINGTON – Economic austerity is a dangerous, self-defeating intellectual fad. Perhaps I should say that’s what it was, given Sunday’s election results in Europe. Perhaps I should also say good riddance.
MICHAEL GERSON
WASHINGTON – “We’re not going back. ... We’re going forward,” said President Obama during his formal campaign kickoff in Ohio. This rallying cry was pedestrian, and appropriately so. Obama is no longer a leader on horseback. His campaign – on the evidence of its first day – will be a long, unimaginative, partisan march to the sea.
CATHERINE FORTE
Mother’s Day is coming right up, and that means cards, flowers and, most of all, dinner reservations. But I thought I’d leave all that sentimental stuff to others and instead share with all the new mothers out there something that you really need to know: How to trick your kids.
KATHLEEN PARKER
WASHINGTON – News that Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng and his family might be allowed to leave China for a university fellowship in the U.S. brought relief not only to Chen, but also to dissidents around the world.
MICHAEL GERSON
WASHINGTON – Scrolling through the headlines in The Long War Journal – a website dedicated to terrorism-related news – is an education in the global drone war. Mohammed Saeed al-Umda, one of Osama bin Laden’s bodyguards, confirmed killed by a drone strike in Yemen. German jihadist Samir H killed in South Waziristan. Egyptian militant Abu Musab al-Masri killed in the Shabwa province of Yemen. The list goes on.
LEONARD PITTS JR.
I don’t care about George Zimmerman’s MySpace page.
BILL HALL
The “mother-in-law cottage” has become the “granny pod,” a small, private dwelling for a family elder in the backyard of a younger family member’s house.
EUGENE ROBINSON
WASHINGTON – Show of hands: Does anybody really understand the U.S. policy in Afghanistan? Can anyone figure out how we’re supposed to stay the course and bring home the troops at the same time?
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
“The pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue states.”
ROBERT J. SAMUELSON
President Barack Obama, April 17
LEONARD PITTS JR.
Sometimes, people hide inside the Bible.
DAVID BROOKS
What sort of thing is a presidential campaign?
KATHLEEN PARKER
WASHINGTON – The squabbling between political campaigns and the harrumphing of pundits were put in proper perspective at, of all places, the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner – the annual Prom on the Potomac where 2,000 or so media members and movie stars gather to honor the president and admire one another.
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