NATIONAL VIEW
National view: Story tarred athlete before facts emerged 
A Friday New York Times story that essentially indicted and convicted a 22-year-old star football player on an alleged sexual assault charge by an anonymous accuser should have begun as follows:
“We know absolutely nothing about this rumor except what six people told us anonymously about this guy who they say sexually assaulted this girl. We don’t know who she is or what she said, or really anything, but here’s HIS name and what ‘they’ say about him.”
By Kathleen Parker , January 29, 2012
National view: Obama plays small ball in big speech
Once upon a time, small ball was not Barack Obama’s game. Tuesday, it was the essence of his State of the Union address.
By Charles Krauthammer , January 29, 2012
National view: Teachers need two things: Content knowledge and effective strategies
If you have a child in a public school, you may want to look at a study that has set the education world abuzz this month. More than look at it, you may want to ask your child’s principal or superintendent what they plan on doing with the information.
By William McKenzie , January 29, 2012
National view: Leaders must think big to meet challenges
This is a moment when policymakers should be thinking big, not small. History will little note nor long remember that the payroll tax holiday was extended for two months rather than 12. The complex and difficult questions we’re avoiding, however, may haunt us through the century.
By Eugene Robinson , January 01, 2012
National view: Only politics can save human species
Huge excitement last week: Two Earth-size planets were found orbiting a sun-like star less than a thousand light-years away. This comes two weeks after the stunning announcement of another planet orbiting another star at precisely the right distance — within the “habitable zone” that is not too hot and not too cold — to allow for liquid water and therefore possible life.
By Charles Krauthammer , January 01, 2012
National view: Liberal or conservative, we’re not enemies
The starkest evidence of how conservative southwest Missouri is didn’t come from the Interstate 44 roadside ads for Fantastic Caverns, the constant reminders of how much “MoDot cares” or even the billboard proclaiming “Government control is not the answer. Self-control is the answer.”
By Linda Campbell , January 01, 2012
National view: There’s nothing presidential about watching candidates joke
It is axiomatic in these political times that The Candidate must submit to comedic humiliation — with grace, humor and the skin of an armadillo. In this upside-down universe, the court jester is the monarch and the would-be king must submit to the jester’s pranks.
By Kathleen Parker , December 25, 2011
National view: Who should answer the 3 a.m. call?
It’s late at night when the phone rings at the White House: Kim Jong Il, the ruthless oddball dictator of nuclear-armed North Korea, is dead. His apparent successor is his 20-something son, about whom practically nothing is known. South Korean officials have rushed to put the nation’s military forces on high alert.
By Eugene Robinson , December 25, 2011
National view: Peace on Earth — more than a wish
“Peace on Earth.” It is each year’s Christmas wish and indeed the great wish of the world’s religions across history.
By Joshua S. Goldstein , December 25, 2011
National view: Gingrich hasn’t heard an idea he dislikes
Can we please bury the notion that Newt Gingrich is some kind of deep thinker? His intellect may be as broad as the sea, but it’s about as deep as a birdbath.
By Eugene Robinson , December 18, 2011
National view: Obama pays the price for appeasement
Fair enough. President Obama didn’t appease Osama bin Laden. He killed him. And for ordering the raid and taking the risk, Obama deserves credit. Credit for decisiveness and political courage.
By Charles Krauthammer , December 18, 2011
National view: The defenseless lose a watchdog in Hitchens
The Republicans’ final debate preceding the Iowa caucuses is suddenly uncompelling. There is nothing to do but write about Christopher Hitchens, whose death has made the world immeasurably less interesting.
By Kathleen Parker , December 18, 2011
National view: The holiday that got away: Tweet for freedom today
Imagine if they canceled Independence Day.
By Ken Paulson , December 15, 2011
National view: Republican campaign sinks to reality TV
I guess I was wrong. I thought Republicans surely would have come to their senses by now. Instead, they seem to be rushing deeper into madness.
By Eugene Robinson , December 11, 2011
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