Doyle McManus' Slant

Op-Ed Mike Griffith, of Canton, Ga., holds a sign during a protest against President Obama's healthcare reform plan outside the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. (John Bazemore/AP Photo / June 8, 2011 .. submitted 05/21/12

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A basic tenet of the U.S. war against terrorism under both George W. Bush and Barack Obama has been the need to "drain the swamp" — to eliminate the conditions that drive young Muslims toward extremism. Now, in much of the Arab world, the inhabitants of the swamp have pitched in courageously to dr .. submitted 05/21/12

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It's not easy promoting democracy and defending monarchies at the same time. But that's the awkward position the Obama administration finds itself in these days in the Arab world, where many of the countries we consider our best friends — Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Morocco and Bahrain, to name a few â .. submitted 05/21/12

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No one knows how this willl end but there is not much room in the Koran for the freedom of speech, thought and action or respect for others necessary for a democracy.Cairo is not Tehran, but Islam is Islam and so cometh the Islamic Caliphate.Islam, the most dangerous thing on earth.Mubarak's wealth .. submitted 05/21/12

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Sarah Palin is like a hyperactive child who would rather be spanked than ignored. She clearly gets off on the negative attention: not only does it keep her in the spotlight, it gives her the opportunity to play media victim.It is not so much swinging and missing it is about Sarah.??? ?It is not just .. submitted 05/21/12

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McManus has missed the whole picture. The only way Obama could move to the center is by making a sharp left turn. He has so far governed as a moderate to hard right conservative. Obama has carried the entire conservative agenda from protecting the insurance companies from real health care reform in .. submitted 05/21/12

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The new speaker of the House, Rep. John A. Boehner of Ohio, isn't the most brilliant statesman ever to hold the job ( Newt Gingrich beats him on that count), the most groundbreaking (that was Nancy Pelosi) or the most charismatic (speakers rarely score high on that scale). But he is among the most .. submitted 05/21/12

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The headlines from the WikiLeaks dump of thousands of not-very-classified State Department cables have focused, understandably, on the embarrassment factor: It's not good for American diplomacy when foreign leaders see what they thought were confidential conversations reprinted on websites and in ne .. submitted 05/21/12

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Three weeks ago, resurgent Republicans won control of one house of Congress, beginning — officially, at least — in January. But last week in Washington, it felt as if they had already taken control of all of Capitol Hill. They pushed the White House and fragmented Senate Democrats toward a "c .. submitted 05/21/12

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As even the most inattentive television viewer knows, a tsunami of political campaign money is flooding onto the airwaves this election year — more than $3 billion by some estimates. That's so much money that Wall Street is raising its profit forecasts for broadcasting companies as a result. Like .. submitted 05/21/12

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One of the oddities of American politics is that midterm congressional elections don't tell us what's likely to happen to a first-term president in the reelection campaign that follows. Bill Clinton's Democrats suffered a catastrophic defeat in 1994, but Clinton cruised to easy reelection in 1996. G .. submitted 05/21/12

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Barack Obama, our first black president, doesn't like talking about race. He wants his presidency to be remembered for fixing the economy, installing a national healthcare plan and building a new foreign policy, not the color of his skin. But the original sin of racial discrimination never stays .. submitted 05/21/12

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