Richard Cohen

An Inconvenient Correction

Who knew Al Gore and the Oscars would be tough to get right? Credit Richard Cohen for trying, though: “In my Nov. 11 column, I said that Al Gore had won an Oscar. He accepted the Oscar for “An Inconvenient Truth,” which won for...

Klansman faces bankruptcy after victim wins $2.5m

Civil rights activists have delivered a potentially fatal blow to one of America's largest Ku Klux Klan groups with a legal victory that is likely to bankrupt its leader. A jury in Kentucky awarded $2.5m (£1.7m) in damages...

Richard Cohen -- FDR as a Model for Obama

Enough Lincoln. More FDR. This is my shorthand advice to Barack Obama, who in several interviews has talked about wanting to emulate Abraham Lincoln. He said that along with the Bible, the book he would take with him to a...

Mooncor Announces First Closing of Flow-Through Financing

CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Nov. 17, 2008) - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO UNITED STATES NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES Mooncor Oil & Gas Corp. ("Mooncor") (TSX VENTURE:MOO) is pleased to announce...

More health care defeatism from Ezra Klein

Submitted by DCblogger on Sat, 2008-11-15 17:34. (who is auditioning to be Versailles’ next Richard Cohen) comes this bright idea hyped by Ezra Klein The details remain a bit sketchy, but the basic idea seems to be that he’ll...

Lawsuit seeks to bankrupt Klan group

It was a mismatch from the start: a 16-year-old boy, 5-feet, 3-inches tall and 150 pounds, against two reputed Ku Klux Klansmen, the biggest standing 6-feet, 5-inches and tipping the scales at 300 pounds.

Scoop Link: Obama's Cabinet - Start With Al Gore

If there is a single appointment Barack Obama could make to signal how dramatically things will change in Washington, it would be to name Albert Gore Jr. - former House member, former senator, former vice president, former...

2007 Campus Security Report skews statistics

In the Lake Forest College Campus Security Report for 2007 released to students on Oct. 30, burglaries increased 63 percent. However, the number is deceptive because a change in crime classification skewed the data. "The...

Walter: House Dems must find their inner Rahm

WASHINGTON - The attention paid to President-elect Barack Obama's selection of Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., as his chief of staff has focused almost exclusively on what it says about the new president and his governing style....

Good riddance Bush, but welcome back Al?

There are two great columns out today, one from somebody I often find infuriating and one from a person who, pound for pound, may be the most trenchant liberal commentator in the country. The first, from the sometimes annoying...

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