Adele M. Stan

YA NEVER DO KNOW. Before we go all triumphal and everything, we’d be wise to heed Brother Ezra‘s cautionary note on whether or not the GOP is a gone-er for ’08. A terrorist attack would, indeed, change everything, as could any number of other variables, the economy not least among them. Having covered the religious […]

MIERS, MIERS, PANTS ON… Brother Sam is on the money in pointing out the role Harriet Miers played in the scandalous firings of seven U.S. attorneys, as detailed in today’s Washington Post. And I hate to say “I told ya so,” (well, actually, I take smug satisfaction in the utterance), but back when everybody was […]

RONNIE WELLS HAS PASSED. When the music programs in public schools began dwindling — and as D.C.’s great jazz musicians found fewer and fewer venues in which to share their art with regular people — singer Ronnie Wells founded the East Coast Jazz Festival, a singular event that drew together the greater area jazz community, […]

CHENEY: ME-NOT-ME DON’T PLAY THAT WAY. A day after Richard V. Cheney shook his finger at Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf for not doing enough to rid Pakistan’s border region of Taliban and al-Qaeda, Cheney got a taste of what it’s like to be Musharraf when a Taliban suicide bomber detonated, within Cheney’s earshot, a device […]

NEW FRONT IN WAR ON TERROR: G.O.P. DONORS The AP has just reported the arrest of a donor to the Republican Party — a self-described lifetime member of National Republican Senatorial Committee’s ”Inner Circle” and appointee to the NRCC’s ”White House Business Advisory Committee” has been indicted on terrorism charges for allegedly providing aid to […]

A “CLEAN” BILL OF HEALTH: BIDEN DECLARED TOO ARTICULATE BY WHITE GUYS. Here in Washington we have this marvelous thing called C-SPAN Radio, which on Sundays airs all of the big political TV talk shows back to back, allowing one to do one’s laundry, cook a duck or practice one’s ukulele with the sound of […]

THANK YOU TO THE BLACK WOMEN OF VIRGINIA. The junior senator from the Commonwealth of Virginia, James Webb, is hardly my favorite freshman. (Feminists of my generation find it tough to forget his attack on the women attacked at the Tailhook convention in 1991.) However, there’s no denying the effectiveness of his rebuttal to the […]

DROP IN THE BUCKET. More on the noblesse oblige theme. Did the president just applaud himself for getting AIDS drugs to 50,000 people on the continent of Africa? According to the U.N., of the 900 million people on the continent, “an estimated 24.5 million people [in sub-Saharan Africa] were living with HIV at the end […]

GOODNESS GRACIOUS. Ah, the whir of helicopters overhead, the scent of freshly baked cookies wafting through the room in which I sit tonight, a mere three blocks from the chamber from which the president is delivering his sixth State of the Union address. The helicopters circle as a means of protection for the dignitaries there […]