It is strange I have a pretty good memory but I can rsquo t seem to remember the religion of the students who perpetrated the Columbine High School massacre Nor for that matter can I recall the religion of the young man who killed 31 people and then himself at Virginia Tech in 2007 But ther

The news that Congressman Bart Stupak the champion of pro-life Democrats will be out of town for the rest of the week due to a death in his family is the most discouraging news I have heard in a long time The House appears set to move forward on its health care reform bill possibly by the end of

Last night rsquo s elections yielded a happily mixed result The GOP picked up the two governorships that were at stake reclaiming the governor rsquo s mansions in Richmond and Princeton from Democratic incumbents The Democrats held on to a congressional race in California and picked up a GOP seat

Tonight rsquo s election results may not contain any tea leaves for the future Off-year elections tend to favor the party that is out of power so it should be a good not for Republicans But it might also be the night the GOP drawing the wrong lessons heads over the cliff Only two governorships

The Post rsquo s Outlook section yesterday had four articles dealing with the fall of the Berlin Wall The two that look at Berlin then and now and very interesting but the other two essays show conflicting notions about history that are worth considering How it went down by Mary Elise Sarotte lo

Yesterday Interior Secretary Ken Salazar signed the papers allowing construction to proceed on a monument to the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr on the National Mall here in Washington This is an important thing and I am not sure I would have known how important until a couple of years ago I try

The Washington Post is reporting on its front page this morning that President Obama has called for a province-by-province analysis of Afghanistan assessing which areas are in need of additional help from the U S and which have local governments that are in sufficient control on their own Such

I have what I believe in all humility is a brilliant idea a Ripley rsquo s Believe It or Not dedicated entirely to right-wing craziness The first two exhibits both come from the same source Andrew Schlafly son on Phyllis the woman who spearheaded the defeat of the ERA and laid the groundwork

It is crunch time on the health care reform bill The Senate leadership in consultation with the White House are deciding the final parameters of the legislation Catholic observers are keeping their fingers crossed that the final legislative language will permit us to support it Actually some C

Back in 1984 someone asked Barbara Bush what she thought of her husband rsquo s opponent Rep Geraldine Ferraro and she famously replied ldquo I can rsquo t say it but it rhymes with rich rdquo This anecdote came to me as I read Maureen Dowd rsquo s column in the New York Times yesterday in