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A Sentencing Project report | The candidates on the legal justice system COMMENTARY Where McCain, Clinton, Obama stand on the death penalty, crack cocaine sentencing, minimum sentencing and other issues. 
Odom's view | The surge is prolonging instability, not creating the conditions for success COMMENTARY Gen. William Odom suggests that Congress ask the Bush administration to name a single historical case where power has been aggregated successfully from local strongmen to a central government except through bloody violence leading to a single winner. He once again calls rapid withdrawal from Iraq the only effective and moral choice.
| Thoughts on the language used in covering the economy COMMENTARY On the theory that words matter, Henry Banta would have reporters and editors ban the phrases 'consumer confidence' and 'stimulating investment' for the time being, and focus on economic realities.
The 45% Trigger | For Medicare, 'modernization' means 'destruction' COMMENTARY The critical question, writes attorney Judith Stein, is: 'Will we keep giving away public money to private industry rather than toward necessary health care for older and disabled people?'
A look back | Gore would have invaded Iraq, don’t you think? COMMENTARY That's what Ralph Nader said on Meet the Press in 2004. Comparing him to Bush, Nader said a Gore administration 'wouldn't have been any different in terms of military and foreign policy.'
Speaking out | A hero of the war COMMENTARY Greg Mitchell, whose new book chronicles the press’s failings before and after the invasion of Iraq, gives credit to one of the rare public figures brave enough to speak out against the war early and often: Gen. William E. Odom.
Heart attack, you say? Just have a seat | Fewer emergency rooms but more patients COMMENTARY In recent years several hundred emergency departments (EDs) closed around the U.S., while the total number of patient visits soared. A 2008 study showed waits to see the ED physician increased 36% between 1997 and 2004. The government's answer: cut funding for urban hospitals, where waits are longest.
Burying the news | Newspaper Web sites and White House disinformation COMMENTARY The Wall Street Journal print edition didn’t mention a recent report that cited more than 935 false statements by top Administration officials. The Journal’s Web site, however, not only mentioned the report—it attacked it. (Second of two parts.)
Burying the news | If 935 falsehoods fall from the White House, do the news media hear them? COMMENTARY Morton Mintz asks: If the president and top aides who made nearly 1,000 false statements to take us into war had been Democrats, would two national papers, the TV networks, the news magazines, and every newspaper in 33 states have ignored it? (First of two parts)
A welcome for the next President | Bush's military spending binge COMMENTARY The President’s fiscal 2009 defense budget, just sent to Congress, doesn’t include some emergency appropriations he will request for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. With that figured in, one analyst sees spending of $1.2 million a minute all day, every day, all year.
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