Mary Lynn Jones

There’s no doubt which movie star is dominating attention this summer. It’s not Tobey Maguire of Seabiscuit, Will Smith of Bad Boys 2 or Colin Farrell of S.W.A.T. No, it’s Arnold Schwarzenegger. I’m not talking about his turn in Terminator 3: The Rise of the Machines; I’m talking, of course, about his new role as […]

When President Bush called a press conference last week, a few notable things happened. The main development, of course, was that he finally took responsibility for those 16 words in his State of the Union address — the ones claiming that Iraq was trying to buy uranium from Niger. It was about time. CIA Director […]

House Republicans did something highly unusual last week — they voted against a position held by the Bush administration. By a vote of 400 to 21, the House passed a bill that would effectively strike down the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) decision allowing media companies to expand their reach. It was a slap in the […]

One of the few bright spots in the recent $350 billion tax cut is that $20 billion was given to states to help them face budget shortfalls. Unfortunately, a similar provision to help the nation’s cities and counties didn’t end up in the legislation that President George W. Bush signed. This omission is just another […]

The impressive Bush fund-raising machine lived up to expectations last week when Federal Election Commission (FEC) documents showed that the president had raked in $34.4 million in the second quarter of this year. But there were some hopeful signs for Democrats, too, in the numbers behind the numbers. Sure, President Bush raised more than all […]

For a while, the Democrats’ entire election strategy for 2004 seemed to be: Wait for George W. Bush to make a mistake, seize upon it and ride it to victory. The president’s handling of the Iraq War aftermath may be just the mistake they were waiting for. According to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, […]

According to President Bush, the war with Iraq has been over for more than two months. But the dozens of families of soldiers killed since May 1 would likely tell you a different story. Three more soldiers were killed over Independence Day weekend, including one who was buying a soda at a student center. On […]

In speeches by many of the Democratic presidential hopefuls, two names keep coming up: George W. Bush and John F. Kennedy. It’s no surprise that the candidates keep mentioning Bush — after all, he’s the man they’re trying to defeat. But why are the Democrats invoking the name of a president who was killed 40 […]

Summer has arrived — finally. And everyone seems to be getting into a summertime frame of mind. That includes reporters, who aren’t just covering former Gov. Howard Dean’s (D-Vt.) announcement today that he’s running for president — they’re also talking about his 17-year-old son’s arrest after attempting to steal beer from a local country club. […]

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) big media day has arrived. After months of speculation, a week of leaks and last night’s interview with Barbara Walters on ABC, her memoir, Living History, appears in bookstores today. I bought a copy this morning and quickly flipped through the pages. But because I haven’t yet had time to […]