Sic Semper Tyrannis!
Supreme Court Justice Richard Sanders made a spectacle of himself, shouting "Tyrant!" But he also had a point.
Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson is the former editorial-page editor of the Everett Herald. Follow him on Twitter @phardinjackson
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Culture
John Anderson's Pennsylvania postmortem
Consecrate a Scandinavian-American in the spirit of Obama-mania and footlight a contradiction: the Audacity of Pessimism.
Culture
This just in: Boomers ruined America
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
Culture
Reporters, 50-ish, continue aging
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.
Politics
Ask not who wrote the words, ask whose words are rote
A former speechwriter considers the national rhetoric and whether words mean what they say, or if it depends on who says them.