Sic Semper Tyrannis!
Supreme Court Justice Richard Sanders made a spectacle of himself, shouting "Tyrant!" But he also had a point.
Peter Jackson is the former editorial-page editor of the Everett Herald. Follow him on Twitter @phardinjackson
Supreme Court Justice Richard Sanders made a spectacle of himself, shouting "Tyrant!" But he also had a point.
Consecrate a Scandinavian-American in the spirit of Obama-mania and footlight a contradiction: the Audacity of Pessimism.
On Monday night I went to see Brett Morgen's Chicago 10, an animated/snatches-of-newsreel documentary on the 1968 Democratic National Convention riots and subsequent Chicago Seven [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Seven] conspiracy trial (the filmmaker rounded the seven up to ten to include atto
It happened twice in 2007 and again this past February: A journalist asked my age for a news item. No matter that youth is irrelevant in a meritocracy. Age has emerged as one of those nervy, reflexive questions that only third graders and professional scribblers are comfortable asking.
A former speechwriter considers the national rhetoric and whether words mean what they say, or if it depends on who says them.