http://creators.com/ Creators Syndicate is an international syndication company that represents cartoonists and columnists of the highest caliber. en Fri, 09 May 2008 16:24:48 -0700 80ff412962a07108db22435f87ff0f04 http://creators.com/opinion/froma-harrop/a-perfect-calm-for-john-mccain.html Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 <p>John McCain has used these weeks of Republican calm to dive into the Democratic lunch pail. This strategy clearly assumes a Barack Obama candidacy. If demographics are destiny &mdash; as the political sages keep telling us &mdash; Democratic demographics may offer some choice cuts to the presumed Republican nominee. By dumb luck, Republicans have chosen their one candidate who projects a modera ...<br> <br/>Updated: Thu May 08, 2008<br/><br/>]]> a935a5605f15372536981c164fab3c82 http://creators.com/opinion/larry-elder/recession-recession-where-s-the-recession.html Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 <p>&quot;It's a recession,&quot; said former President Harry Truman, &quot;when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.&quot;</p> <p>For people facing home foreclosure, job loss or the struggle of paying high gas prices, the definition a recession seems immaterial and insignificant. True.</p> <p>But during an election year, the media's constant use or expectation of &qu ...<br> <br/>Updated: Thu May 08, 2008<br/><br/>]]> c01cdfd8c53d2bb1b83aaa270b856343 http://creators.com/opinion/steve-chapman/rejecting-the-policy-that-won-the-cold-war.html Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 <p>When it comes to the war in Iraq and other foreign policy issues, Republicans like to harken back to the stalwart presidents of the Cold War. John McCain has invoked Harry Truman and Ronald Reagan as kindred spirits, and so has George W. Bush. Which raises the question: Why do they embrace those leaders while rejecting their policy?</p> <p>The centerpiece of the U.S. approach to the Soviet Unio ...<br> <br/>Updated: Thu May 08, 2008<br/><br/>]]> 63f84f7db5391019bbad865308a4b816 http://creators.com/opinion/robert-novak/obama-flawed-or-fantastic.html Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 <p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &mdash; Buyer's remorse was beginning to afflict supporters of Barack Obama before Tuesday's primary election returns showed he had delivered a knockout punch against Hillary Clinton. The young orator who had seemed so fantastic beginning with his 2007 Jefferson-Jackson dinner speech in Iowa disappointed even his own advisers over the past two weeks, and old party hands mourned ...<br> <br/>Updated: Thu May 08, 2008<br/><br/>]]> 58081d2011c4ac638b53b5bc349e20cc http://creators.com/opinion/r-emmett-tyrrell/the-mayor-of-london-who-would-be-president.html Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 <p>WASHINGTON &mdash; The most momentous political story of the hour is not what you might think &hellip; whatever you might think. It has to do with an American politician now living in London and his aspiration to become president of the United States. His name is Boris Johnson. He, an exemplary conservative, has just beaten one of the most rebarbative left-wing reactionaries in the United Kingd ...<br> <br/>Updated: Thu May 08, 2008<br/><br/>]]> 46afec16d35de3f9c7d6668c8a7b470d http://creators.com/opinion/dick-morris/why-won-t-hillary-adopt-the-huckabee-option.html Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 <p>OK, so Hillary Clinton is staying in the presidential race despite losing among elected delegates, facing a slimming lead among super-delegates, losing the popular vote and being behind by two to one in the number of states carried. She slogs on, hoping against hope for a sudden turnaround in the race.</p> <p>Apart from the psychological reasons for her stubbornness, is there a more subtle poli ...<br> <br/>Updated: Thu May 08, 2008<br/><br/>]]> 9f559b09139ae3e528eee1c2c298f04b http://creators.com/opinion/joe-conason/hillary-plays-the-crazy-card.html Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 <p>In this protracted and often dispiriting prelude to the general election, few remarks have been as poorly chosen as Sen. Hillary Clinton's threat to &quot;totally obliterate&quot; Iran. What she obliterated with just those two words were her own boasts of superior diplomatic experience &mdash; and she managed at the same time to tar America's international image with all the subtlety of the man ...<br> <br/>Updated: Thu May 08, 2008<br/><br/>]]> f6bb924daff3e88c1c06c0ab9d53b4df http://creators.com/opinion/matthew-towery/the-florida-house-of-cards-starts-to-collapse-clinton-can-t-survive-the-coup.html Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 <p>It was over a year and a half ago that I wrote the first story suggesting that a move in the date of the Florida presidential primary, then just a rumor in Tallahassee, would likely shake up the entire presidential race.</p> <p>It did.</p> <p>Had the Republican-dominated Florida legislature not moved up the date of that state's primary, to precede the 23 Super Tuesday states by a week, the enti ...<br> <br/>Updated: Thu May 08, 2008<br/><br/>]]> bb27ca622da6b2ecb0793052ff0a0564 http://creators.com/opinion/brent-bozell/librarians-against-censorship.html Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 <p>The American Library Association (ALA) has released its annual survey of offenses to &quot;intellectual freedom,&quot; the books whose place in public schools and public libraries is the most &quot;challenged&quot; by the public. Leading that list for the second straight year is the children's book &quot;And Tango Makes Three,&quot; about a penguin family with two daddies.</p> <p>Several books ...<br> <br/>Updated: Fri May 09, 2008<br/><br/>]]> b5b8c2104872535e76af6975b7d550f3 http://creators.com/opinion/oliver-north/petronomics-101.html Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 <p>FORT BENNING, Ga. &mdash; Here at the U.S. Army's biggest base on the East Coast, soldiers and their dependents are eagerly awaiting the arrival of their &quot;economic stimulus payments.&quot; It's a good thing because, like most of us, these American heroes are going to need the extra money just to purchase their next tank of gas.</p> <p>This week, the Internal Revenue Service begins mailing ...<br> <br/>Updated: Fri May 09, 2008<br/><br/>]]> 550cf898e902613b13625dc4095bfe5b http://creators.com/opinion/roger-simon/tough-road-ahead-for-clinton.html Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 <p>Rats don't swim toward sinking ships, and pols don't back no losers &mdash; and this is why Hillary Clinton is in such trouble.</p> <p>In a relatively short amount of time, Clinton has gone from being the inevitable winner to being the underdog to being a dead woman walking.</p> <p>She needs super-delegates to win the nomination, but what is her argument to super-delegates?</p> <p>Can she promi ...<br> <br/>Updated: Fri May 09, 2008<br/><br/>]]> 839bbe33b52385016060f6828d8fa184 http://creators.com/opinion/suzanne-fields/playing-performance-politics.html Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 <p>Are we having fun yet? The run-ups to the voting in Indiana and North Carolina kept Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama working on their performance art (and who knew that Ron Paul was still in the Republican race, but he won 7 percent of the vote in Indiana). Hillary joked slyly with George Stephanopoulos that Rush Limbaugh once had a crush on her. A girl sometimes takes what she gets.</p> <p>Bil ...<br> <br/>Updated: Fri May 09, 2008<br/><br/>]]> 02b1252d6991b19c53af89a874b1d66e http://creators.com/opinion/david-limbaugh/in-fairness-to-hillary.html Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 <p>The question, my fellow election watchers, is not, &quot;Why won't Hillary do the honorable thing and quit?&quot; but &quot;Why won't Democrats do the honorable thing and quit trying to force her to?&quot;</p> <p>Did Democrats make Ted Kennedy quit when he fought Jimmy Carter through the Democratic convention in 1980 in an effort to dislodge <em> pledged </em> delegates though Carter had alread ...<br> <br/>Updated: Fri May 09, 2008<br/><br/>]]> 62d60e1f50db06b4596e0da976d9900d http://creators.com/opinion/roland-martin/hillary-dems-need-more-than-hard-working-white-workers-to-win.html Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 <p>Excuse me if a look of bewilderment continues to cross my face when a surrogate of Sen. Hillary Clinton starts off on the we-need-hard-working-white-workers-to-win-in-November mantra. In fact, the candidate herself now has made that the primary &mdash; and latest &mdash; argument to the superdelegates in order to convince them that she's the best person to beat Sen. John McCain in November.</p> ...<br> <br/>Updated: Fri May 09, 2008<br/><br/>]]> b80ff7d281bb57024774e2a32c9a0994 http://creators.com/opinion/pat-buchanan/the-hillary-democrats.html Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 <p>&quot;I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on&quot; than Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton has told USA TODAY.</p> <p>She cited an Associated Press article &quot;that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.&quot;</p> <p>&quot;There's a ...<br> <br/>Updated: Fri May 09, 2008<br/><br/>]]> 1af2b951b0fa579aa2fc871eafec0eff http://creators.com/opinion/linda-chavez/the-real-meaning-of-mother-s-day.html Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 <p>Remember when Mother's Day was a simple affair? The kids woke Mom up with breakfast in bed &mdash; Froot Loops floating on a sea of slightly pink milk &mdash; and handmade cards. Everyone was especially nice to one another so Mom could enjoy some &quot;peace and quiet,&quot; commodities in short supply in most mothers' lives. Maybe Dad cooked dinner or everyone went out to a restaurant, the kin ...<br> <br/>Updated: Fri May 09, 2008<br/><br/>]]> ef6cf71d50f896a6deb363c807a36e0c http://creators.com/opinion/alexander-cockburn/the-year-of-the-prisoner.html Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 <p>Listening to Hillary Clinton's top aides trying to put a good face on the results of the Indiana primary had the same surreal quality as an aide to Hitler reporting &quot;encouraging news&quot; from Stalingrad. Her candidacy died on May 5. She needed at least a 10 percent win in Indiana, and in the end, she scraped through by not much more than 16,000 votes. Every day she stays in the race now ...<br> <br/>Updated: Fri May 09, 2008<br/><br/>]]> efdc658b4faac23847b0c5125f08dee5 http://creators.com/opinion/mona-charen/did-israel-drive-out-the-arabs-60-years-ago.html Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 <p>Sixty is pretty old for a country. Consider that by the time the United States was 60 (counting from the conclusion of the War of Independence), the year was 1843. We'd already had 10 presidents, had nearly quadrupled the size of the nation, and were on our way to becoming a world power. As with the histories of all nations, our birth was not without sins and crimes. The Indians paid a dear pri ...<br> <br/>Updated: Fri May 09, 2008<br/><br/>]]> da1aa7c16634c7d16769593c3670875c http://creators.com/opinion/susan-estrich/playing-nice.html Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 <p>&quot;We'd rather not win than to have to do that,&quot; Cindy McCain told Ann Curry of the &quot;Today&quot; show, in response to a question about negative campaigning. &quot;That's not worth winning for. This is about being a leader and a person that can be a good example for our children, and a good role model. There's many, many, many more things to this job than just being the president. Y ...<br> <br/>Updated: Fri May 09, 2008<br/><br/>]]> cafdcf892a5079da44f7d51503572915 http://creators.com/opinion/david-sirota/acknowledging-the-race-chasm.html Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 <p>When it comes to race, American politics is as polarized as a red and blue election map. On one side are those who try to distract from the issue; on the other side are those who work to sensationalize it. As this campaign season shows, what unifies both is bigotry.</p> <p>Take the reaction to my recent In These Times magazine article about Barack Obama winning states with either very small or ...<br> <br/>Updated: Fri May 09, 2008<br/><br/>]]>