National Editorials and Columns

We moderns seem determined to suppress all unhappiness with one exception: grief.

My late father was a man of strong opinion.

In February 1989, I ended a phone interview for a magazine story I was writing and looked up to find my 21-month-old daughter imitating me.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood slapped down Reuters for reporting a few weeks ago that he wants “a federal law to ban talking on a cellphone or texting while driving any type of vehicle on any road in the country.”

So apparently, Barack Obama is finally done evolving.

Last week, I wrote about the standings in the presidential race and said it looked like a long, hard slog through about a dozen clearly identified target states, much like the contests in 2000 and 2004.

On the HBO series “Girls,” Hannah asks her boss at a publishing house for a salary.

Quick question: What is the most enduring American pop group of all time?

The politician’s words captured the moment: “This is a historic time ... and one side simply has to win out over the other.”

This was going to be a different kind of column.

In an election season in which the White House has instituted a policy that puts unprecedented limits on the constitutional right to freedom of religion, questions of conscience, duty and spiritual and moral obligation are of critical importance.

I don’t care about George Zimmerman’s MySpace page.

It has been reported that the Obama campaign this year, as in 2008, has disabled or chosen not to use AVS in screening contributions made by credit card.

You have to wonder why gay advocates remain loyal Republicans even as the right wing drags their party back to the beginning of the 20th century, if not the 19th.

In just about six months, the nation will vote for a president.