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Jules Witcover: The case against and for Joe Biden
- As the breathless moment approaches when Barack Obama declares his choice of a running mate via a phone text message to his faithful followers, speculation mounts that it could be Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware.
Jules Witcover: New age of media spurs sensationalism
- Seldom has so much public abuse been heaped on the nation’s mainstream news media than in their tardy coverage of John Edwards’ sexual dalliance, leaving the disclosure to the gossip tabloids and the widening blogosphere.
Upgrading the vice presidency
- As curiosity if not genuine concern mounts over the running mate selections of Barack Obama and John McCain, it’s remarkable how the vice presidency itself has been elevated, thanks in part to the performance of incumbent Dick Cheney.
Jules Witcover: Upgrading the vice presidency
- As curiosity if not genuine concern mounts over the running mate selections of Barack Obama and John McCain, it’s remarkable how the vice presidency itself has been elevated, thanks in part to the performance of incumbent Dick Cheney.
Jules Witcover: McCain’s early desperation
- A month before John McCain is formally anointed as the Republican presidential nominee, his campaign is acting as if Barack Obama is a runaway train that must be derailed at all costs.
Jules Witcover: The non-impeachment of Bush
- For six hours last Friday, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing, the subject of which Chairman John Conyers Jr., Democrat of Michigan, pointedly assured an overflow crowd was not the impeachment of President Bush.
Jules Witcover: Mood, gaffes test McCain
- Prior to Barack Obama’s great overseas adventure, the conventional wisdom held that the 2008 campaign for the presidency had come down to evaluating him. Was the newcomer on the national and international stage up to the job?
Jules Witcover: Barack Obama abroad
- For all the advance consternation about the political risks that Barack Obama faced in going to Afghanistan and Iraq, his Middle East visit was a no-brainer from the start.
Jules Witcover: Gore shines from the shadows
- These could be very trying times for former Vice President Al Gore, even as he continues to grab national attention with a new call to achieve freedom from the oil dependence that strangles America’s economy and foreign policy.
Jules Witcover: New Middle East priority
- For more than five years now, President Bush has brushed aside criticism that his invasion of Iraq was an unwise and unnecessary diversion from the legitimate war against terrorism in Afghanistan.
Jules Witcover: The surrogate problem again
- The wit who first said “With friends like these, who needs enemies?” captured the downside of political surrogates, those folks who in trying to be helpful too often only make things worse for their candidates.
Jules Witcover: Vice President Jim Webb?
- T he political adage, “Would that my opponent would write a book,” is a commentary on the risk that any public figure takes in putting his or her life story, or any part of it, in print. Though most such efforts are patently self-serving, they often can be revealing in detrimental ways.
Jules Witcover: Democratic failure on ending the war
- When the Democrats won control of Congress in the 2006 congressional elections, they took the outcome as a mandate to end American involvement in the war in Iraq. But in the nearly two years since that supposed mandate, they have been thoroughly stymied.
Sami Hartsfield
Houston Legal Issues Examiner
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Book review: 'Terror in the Mind of God' by Mark Juergensmeyer
Houston Legal Issues Examiner
Most Recent Article
Book review: 'Terror in the Mind of God' by Mark Juergensmeyer
