John L. Perry - Archived Articles The Tragic Dramatization of Iraq Monday, July 9, 2007 History Not Polls to Judge Bush Thursday, July 5, 2007 Cruelest Insult to Immigrants Tuesday, May 29, 2007 Fred Thompson's Vast Audience of One Tuesday, May 22, 2007 Yes, It Could Have Been Prevented Wednesday, April 18, 2007 British Hostages Simply Gave In Monday, April 9, 2007 What Lies Ahead for 2008 Elections? Wednesday, March 21, 2007 The Real State of the Union Monday, Jan. 22, 2007 3 Deaths, 1 Unresolved Issue Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2007 History's Grace Period Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006 Perils of Politician-Swapping Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2006 Elections Are About Neither Party Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2006 War Is Over, But Not Won Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2006 Clinton Takes the Stage Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2006 The Sewer Is Backing Up Friday, Sept. 22, 2006 A Straight al-Qaida Ticket Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2006 Truth out of Tehran Monday, Sept. 4, 2006 Is Bush Down for the Count? Monday, Aug. 21, 2006 Enough Denial, This Is It Monday, Aug. 14, 2006 No Win-Win, Only Win-Lose Wednesday, July 19, 2006 Masscomm vs. Commsense Monday, April 10, 2006 Our Potemkin Press Thursday, March 16, 2006 President Bush's Ultimate Weapon Thursday, March 9, 2006 Take This Poll and ... Sunday, March 5, 2006 Left-wing Frog-stickers Monday, Feb. 20, 2006 Democrats' Dans Macabré Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006 Plebiscite for Annihilation Saturday, Jan. 28, 2006 Whew! An Even Year Again Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2006 In Defense of Howard Dean Monday, Dec. 12, 2005 At Last, the Perfect Opinion Poll Monday, Nov. 28, 2005 Cheney Protests Backfire Thursday, Nov. 17, 2005 Where the Left Is Coming From Friday, Nov. 11, 2005 Harriet Miers' Withdrawal Would Be a Disaster Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2005 The Liberation of George W. Bush Thursday, Oct. 20, 2005 Lamentations of the Left Monday, Sept. 26, 2005 Rescuing the Rest of Us Thursday, Sept. 8, 2005 Faceless Assassins of Freedom Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005 Give 'em Hell, W! Monday, Aug. 8, 2005 'Mind Your Head' Saturday, July 9, 2005 Durbin's Non-Apology Wednesday, June 22, 2005 The Party of Anti-Semitism Monday, June 20, 2005 Bush's Rising Tide Monday, June 13, 2005 Is France Really Necessary? Thursday, June 2, 2005 Joys of Base Closings Monday, May 16, 2005 Investing Political Capital Monday, May 2, 2005 Dr. Dean and Dr. Freud Friday, April 22, 2005 Week of Awakening Tuesday, April 5, 2005 Derailing the Third Rail Monday, March 14, 2005 Democrats Lose as Democracy Wins Tuesday, March 8, 2005 DNC's Gourmet Selection Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2005 Crisis? What Cri…! Monday, Jan. 31, 2005 Inaugural Revelation Monday, Jan. 24, 2005 The Buck Starts Here Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2004 The Deanocratic Party Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2004 1492 Déjà Vu - America Rediscovered Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2004 Surveys and Polls Are No Substitute for Votes Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2004 And the Loser Was ... Monday, Oct. 18, 2004 Fly That Banner! Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2004 Dan, Sit! Dan, Stay! Monday, Sept. 20, 2004 Ten Days of War Thursday, Sept. 9, 2004 Is John Kerry Ill? Thursday, Aug. 26, 2004 Hurricane al Qaeda Monday, Aug. 16, 2004 Obama Mambo Monday, Aug. 9, 2004 Flip That Flopped Monday, Aug. 2, 2004 Kerry Flips Berger Thursday, July 22, 2004 Nasty Hatred Friday, July 16, 2004 Swap First Ladies? Wednesday, July 14, 2004 They’re Radicals Thursday, July 8, 2004 Zell-Al Real Reality Monday, June 28, 2004 Why W Will Win Tuesday, June 15, 2004 Gipper's Gift Monday, June 7, 2004 Color-coded War Tuesday, June 1, 2004 American POMs Tuesday, May 18, 2004 Media Maelstrom Tuesday, May 11, 2004 A Gentleman’s VP Monday, May 3, 2004 Magnificent Condi Saturday, Apr. 10, 2004 Tell Us, Teddy Wednesday, Apr. 07, 2004 Good-News Grief Monday, Apr. 05, 2004 Character Counts Thursday, Mar. 25, 2004 Powell Opens Fire Wednesday, Mar. 10, 2004 Losing the Campaign Tuesday, Mar. 09, 2004 Limits of Hatred Monday, Mar. 08, 2004 Voting for a Living Thursday, Mar. 04, 2004 Tax-Created Jobs Wednesday, Mar. 03, 2004 Losers For Kerry Friday, Feb. 27, 2004 Nader’s Exposé Monday, Feb. 23, 2004 Election Hiccups Friday, Feb. 20, 2004 Preemption Wins Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2004 Dean's Ugly Twin Monday, Feb. 9, 2004 No Place Left to Stand Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2004 Triple-Threat Dean Monday, Jan. 5, 2004 Rhymes With Spleen Monday, Dec. 29, 2003 Arnold's Tough Love Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2003 California's Bark-Beetle Politics Friday, Dec. 19, 2003 In a Hole with Saddam Monday Dec. 15, 2003 Dean Just Got Gored Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2003 An Inglorious Exit Thursday October 30, 2003 The Candidates Blew It Monday, Oct. 27, 2003 They Will Explode Here Monday, October 20, 2003 All Together Now ... Wednesday October 15, 2003 Bin Laden’s Bequest Thursday September 11, 2003 Naught’s in a Name Monday September 8, 2003 Youth4Arnold Tuesday August 26, 2003 Terror Is War Thursday August 21, 2003 Misreading Arnold Monday August 11, 2002 First Round KO Thursday August 7, 2003 War Unceasing Tuesday July 29, 2003 Saddams Sons: Gone and Goners Thursday July 23, 2003 Vulnerable to Venality Thursday July 17, 2003 Right to Be Loved Monday July 7, 2003 Senate - Where the Action Is Wednesday July 2, 2003 Judicial Tidal Effect Tuesday, June 24, 2003 What Matters Most Wednesday June 18, 2003 Hillary’s Big Wart Friday, June 13, 2003 Bad Things Must Happen Monday June 9, 2003 All the Lies that Fit Tuesday May 20, 2003 Levers of Governance Wednesday May 14, 2003 Intel the Elephant Friday, May 9, 2003 Next Terror Targets Monday, May 5, 2003 We Don’t Need No Stinking Sanctions Monday, April 28, 2003 Always Free Men Monday April 21, 2003 You’re Not Alone Wednesday, April 2, 2003 Silence of the Goats Tuesday April 1, 2003 Are We There Yet? Friday March 28, 2003 Ding Dong! The U.N.’s Dead Monday March 24, 2003 Private Sector Terror Monday March 10, 2003 What Price War? Friday March 7, 2003 Pause That Depresses Tuesday March 4, 2003 Spare Not the Young Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2003 Dueling Vetoes Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2003 Whose Backbone? Friday, Feb. 14, 2003 Kofi’s Iraqi Chutzpah Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2003 After Iraq, Worse Awaits Thursday, Feb. 6, 2003 Columbia’s Challenges Monday, Feb. 3, 2003 Why We Have Presidents Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2003 Reality 2003 Wake-up Call Thursday, Dec. 26, 2002 Season’s Joy With Saddam Tuesday Dec. 24, 2002 Lott's Blunder Creates Opportunity for Bush Monday, Dec. 16, 2002 Keep Your Eye off Iraq Monday, Dec. 9, 2002 Same Nancy, Fancy Label Friday, Nov. 15, 2002 New Parties, New America Monday, Nov. 11, 2002 Non on Iraq, S'il Vous Plait Thursday October 24, 2002 156 Nevilles on Capitol Hill Thursday, Oct. 17, 200 Demodilemma, GOPportunity Monday, Oct. 14, 2002 Stop Calling Them Liberals Thursday, Oct. 10, 2002 The Boss Takes Charge Monday, Oct. 7, 2002 Our Station as a Nation Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2002 Fine Kennedy This One Is Monday, Sept. 30, 2002 Jesse Jackson out of Action Thursday, Sept. 26, 2002 Iraq: Of Course It's Political Monday, Sept. 23, 2002 Payback Time at the Polls 9-19-2002 This Is a Job for Ah-nald 9-17-2002 There Is Nothin' Like a Leader 9-13-2002 The Return of Gen. Powell 9-9-2002 It's the USA, Not the U.N. 9-6-2002 Clinton Pleads Iraq's Case 9-4-2002 It's More Than Iraq 8-30-2002 Dead Man Talking 8-23-2002 With Allies Like This … 8-21-2002 The Right Thing to Do 8-19-2002 Bush's Worst Nightmares 8-13-2002 RIP, MLB 8-7-2002 New York Times Unfit to Be Believed 7-29-2002 Drug Companies Fill Rx Gap 7-26-2002 The Private Sector Is at War, Too 7-22-2002 War and Political Capital 7-11-2002 Random Acts of Terror 7-8-2002 Times Rises to New Low 7-5-2002 Terror Does Not Retire 7-3-2002 Revolution by Choice 7-1-2002 Constitution Abolishes U.S. 6-27-2002 Bush Doggo in the Bush 6-24-2002 Dis-creation of a Nation 6-20-2002 Betrayal by Silence 6-12-2002 Oh No, Lost Another One! 6-7-2002 Rocky Bottom 6-5-2002 Kashmir, Here We Come? 6-3-2002 Analysis: Kashmir, Here We Come? 6-2-2002 Arrows in the Eagle's Talon 5-31-2002 Bones in W's Throat 5-28-2002 Abetting bin Laden 5-20-2002 Jimmy in Castroland 5-15-2002 So What If Colin Powell Goes? 5-6-2002 The View Beyond Iraq 4-30-2002 Perils of Not Going It Alone 4-26-2002 Journalism by Ambush 4-22-2002 Foggy Bottom's Bottom Exposed 4-16-2002 Croaks From the Balcony 4-10-2002 Treacherous Storms Ahead 4-8-2002 No Win-Win, Only Win-Lose 3-28-2002 Clinton Impeacher in Bid for Senate 3-18-2002 Free the Dems! 3-12-2002 Our Disloyal Opposition 3-4-2002 You've Got E-Malice! 2-21-2002 A Contemporary Political Bestiary 2-8-2002 Up the Alp Without a Toehold 1-31-2002 CNN: Prisoner of Its Own Mirrors 1-16-2002 Networks Drop News Burka on Bush 1-7-2002 Year of Peril or Greatness 12-31-2001 Get Used to It, We're at War 12-3-2001 OK, Who Wants to Be Next? 11-26-2001 Now That's More Like It 11-5-2001 It Is Not Going Well 10-29-2001 Our Inspector Clouseau Press 10-22-2001 The War That the War Eclipsed 10-15-2001 U.S. to Pay for Russian Arms? 10-5-2001 Russian Troops Enter Afghanistan 10-3-2001 The Perils to Come 9-28-2001 GOP's Golden State Gold Strike 9-25-2001 No Tax Funds to Terrorist States 9-22-2001 Give Us Our Government … Now 9-18-2001 How Clinton Shielded Afghanistan 9-17-2001 Blown Schemes, Squelched Croaks 9-16-2001 The Coming Together of America 9-13-2001 Alarmed Putin Calls for Retaliation 9-11-2001 This Changes Everything 9-11-2001 ACLU Sued for Invasion of Privacy 9-7-2001 Red China's TV Coming to U.S. 9-6-2001 Is Bush's Cabinet Bare of Policy? 9-5-2001 Bush's 'Schnozzola' Foreign Policy 9-4-2001 Bush Reverts to Satellites for China 9-3-2001 Army Shifts to Asia From Europe 8-31-2001 Why You Can't Trust the Press 8-30-2001 Condit Lets Staff Take His Heat 8-29-2001 Saddam Gunning for Pilot to Ransom 8-28-2001 China's Smuggling Depletes Ozone 8-27-2001 California Condit and the Temple of Dumb 8-27-2001 Russia Still a Threat, Says Defense Intelligence Agency 8-24-2001 Enviros' Boomerang Boomerangs With ANWR Vote 8-23-2001 Loophole Let Fugitive Slip Into U.S. 8-22-2001 Haig Irate at Not Going After Saddam 8-22-2001 Liberals Refuse to Get Over Election 8-21-2001 U.S. Ends Aid to Kremlin 8-21-2001 America's Ugly Gathering Storm 8-21-2001 States Caught Up in Budget Bind 8-20-2001 Ashcroft Is Bush's 'Johnny Appleseed' 8-17-2001 Why Israel Is a Vital Interest 8-16-2001 No Water, No Wifey … No Foolin' 8-15-2001 Rumsfeld Stares Putin Down 8-15-2001 China Still Aids Iraqi Missiles 8-14-2001 California Lax on Conflict of Interest 8-13-2001 What to Do About Bush? 8-13-2001 Christian Martyrdom - Now, in Afghanistan 8-10-2001 Ashcroft's War on 'New Age Slavery' 8-9-2001 Russian Reds: 'We're No. 1' 8-8-2001 Feds' TWA 800 Theory Crashes 8-8-2001 They're Alive, That's Why 8-8-2001 School Vandalism Beyond Belief 8-7-2001 Student Bomb Threats Backfire 8-7-2001 MLK Jr.-Jr: 'I'm Not My Dad' 8-6-2001 Atlanta Goes Gaga for Gay Games 8-6-2001 SOS for GWB … PDQ 8-6-2001 Israel Calls U.S. Afraid of Terror 8-1-2001 Russia's Going Communist Again 7-31-2001 Way up Upon the Harlem River 7-31-2001 Bush Accused of Missile Deceit 7-30-2001 What's With Condit's Coat? 7-27-2001 AARP Makes Millions Scaring Elders About Social Security 7-26-2001 W's 'Big Biz' Albatross Is Molting 7-25-2001 In Defense of Hanging Tough 7-25-2001 Black Eyes at Black Rock 7-24-2001 Was That Trip Really Necessary? 7-23-2001 Next Slur on Bush: Germ War Pact 7-23-2001 Europeans Declare War on Bush 7-20-2001 Putin Peers Into Bush's Soul 7-19-2001 No Holiday for Murder in Russia 7-18-2001 China Tries to Reassure Russia 7-17-2001 How the Olympics Won China 7-16-2001 China Manages Olympian P.R. 7-12-2001 Olympic Committee Takes Flak in Moscow 7-11-2001 What's Missing Is News 7-11-2001 China Gives Up 'Reforming' U.S. 7-9-2001 Beijing Scaling Olympus 7-9-2001 Japan Flops After Flip on Kyoto 7-6-2001 Teens Clueless About Independence Day 7-3-2001 Good Cop, Bad Cop Putin 7-2-2001 'Red Capitalists' on Chinese Menu 7-2-2001 The World According to Putin 7-2-2001 Without Firing a Shot 7-2-2001 Putin Calls Media 'Blackmailers' 6-29-2001 Ex-spy Putin Ridicules Spies 6-28-2001 Make Morality the Issue(s) 6-28-2001 Putin the Chinese Messenger Boy 6-27-2001 How Putin Sizes Up Bush 6-26-2001 Bush Taking Fire Left and Right 6-24-2001 Bush Gets Mixed Reviews Abroad 6-20-2001 Would U.S. Bomb Russia First? 6-18-2001 The Dream Speech Never Dreamt 6-17-2001 China, Russia Gang Up on Bush 6-14-2001 Molehills Blocking Peace 6-14-2001 Inside the Nuclear-Security Tent 6-13-2001 'China Card' up Putin's Sleeve 6-12-2001 Reconfiguring an Elephant 6-10-2001 Bush Flips on North Korea Talks 6-7-2001 Reform Russian Style: Ha! 6-6-2001 Masscomm Mesmerizers 6-6-2001 Senators in the 2002 Cross Hairs 6-4-2001 Stop Whining, Start Winning 6-4-2001 Where Have All the Giants Gone? 6-1-2001 Russian Gas Drives U.S. Policy 5-31-2001 Not to Be Taken Internally 5-30-2001 Hidden Bush-Putin Summit Agenda: Trade 5-29-2001 What Bush Should Do Now 5-28-2001 Siamese Crises: Israel and Energy 5-25-2001 Phone Scams: 'Whole World on Sucker Lists' 5-24-2001 Capitol Hill Cross-Dressers 5-22-2001 Adieu, Auf Wiedersehen, U.N. 5-20-2001 Hate Crime vs. Tough-Love Crime 5-17-2001 Russia's Wannabe Fuhrer Lives 5-17-2001 To Russia With Condolences: You Can Have the U.N. 5-16-2001 California Turns to Saving Energy 5-14-2001 China Trade Won't Prevent War 5-14-2001 The Case for Trade With China 5-11-2001 'Opt in, Opt out, I Wanna Opt Off' 5-10-2001 How the Press Distorts 'Privacy' 5-10-2001 What Vital Interests? 5-7-2001 Milquetoast to Toast for Bush? 5-3-2001 McConnell to Lead Court Fight on McCain Finance Bill 5-3-2001 Falwell Blasts McCain-Feingold Threat to Free Speech 5-2-2001 McCain 'Reform' Spawns Unusual Opposition 5-1-2001 'Pontius Pilate' Politicians 4-29-2001 'Privacy' Rule: Your Voice May Still Be Heard 4-25-2001 Jail Awaits 'Privacy' Rule Violators 4-24-2001 'Privacy' Rules Open Door to Socialized Medicine 4-23-2001 Medical 'Privacy' Rule Targets You for Marketing 4-20-2001 Bill Camel's Nose Under the Tent 4-19-2001 Medical 'Privacy' Rule Tab $18 Billion, Value $0 4-18-2001 Where the Sun Never Shines 4-17-2001 Astride the Trojan Horse 4-13-2001 Sleeping Dragon on Capitol Hill 4-12-2001 Good News . . . But! 4-11-2001 This Is Madness 4-10-2001 The Coming War With China 4-4-2001 The Hoax That Keeps On Hoaxing 3-29-2001 Stealing America's Secrets 3-27-2001 Pity the Pitiful Democrats 3-25-2001 The Vulture Tax 3-14-2001 A Great Hunger in the Land 3-11-2001 Whoa! What's Going on Here? 3-8-2001 Time for 'Scooter' to Scoot 3-4-2001 Pray for a Tax Filibuster 2-28-2001 Seize the Evening, Sir 2-26-2001 Liberals Right for Wrong Reason 2-23-2001 Hey, Jack, Give Yours Back, Too? 2-21-2001 Myth of Bankable Political Capital 2-17-2001 'Out, Damned Spouse! Out, I Say!' 2-13-2001 The Dissing of Dangerous W. Bush 2-11-2001 Bill Clinton: The Bipartisan Kid 2-9-2001 No State Is a Kilowatt Island 2-2-2001 What the Education Fight Is About 1-30-2001 Go Ahead, Say It: White Trash 1-26-2001 At Last, a President 1-20-2001 When There Is No Shame 1-19-2001 Here Come the Educationists 1-18-2001 The Gathering Sturm 1-15-2001 Reagan's Legacy to Bush 1-13-2001 Jesse Walking on the Ceiling 1-12-2001 Stand Up, W., While You Still Can 1-10-2001 Don't Be Shocked If ... 1-7-2001 Just the Facts, Hold the Bias 1-5-2001 Strong Cheney, Strong Bush 12-28-2000 Democratic, Not Democrat 12-26-2000 Screw Bipartisan! 12-20-2000 There Is Nothing We Cannot Do 12-17-2000 The Republic Prevails 12-13-2000 Lost Out There in the Chads 11-26-2000 Get a Grip, the Founders Did 11-12-2000 It Was Time for Them to Go 11-8-2000 Flush Willie! 11-5-2000 Our Potemkin Election 11-2-2000 Spun Media in a Tailspin 10-30-2000 Muck Out the Stables 10-27-2000 Flipper, Spouse of Tipper 10-25-2000 Tippercanoe and Culpeper, Too 10-22-2000 Hocus-Pocus Focus Hokum 10-19-2000 Same Songs, Third Verse 10-17-2000 Suppose Al Were President Now 10-16-2000 Timely Return of Foreign Policy 10-12-2000 No, It Ain't Exactly Camelot 10-11-2000 No Time for Frog-Croak Polls 10-10-2000 Al Gore's Boomerang 10-9-2000 What Women's Vote? 10-7-2000 Beware: Veeps Can Become President 10-5-2000 Touché! It's Long Been Over 10-3-2000 Our Hostage Nuclear Laboratories 9-26-2000 Might as Well Consult Owl Entrails 9-10-2000 When Work Leaves the Workplace 9-2-2000 Al Gore and His Perpetual Accordion 8-20-2000 That Big Wart on Al Gore's Nose 8-13-2000 Worst of Hillary's, If True, Anti-Semitism 7-28-2000 'Did You Get Your 9?' 7-13-2000 The Fourth of July in the Soviet Union 7-2-2000 Bill Richardson Virtually Tells All 6-15-2000 In Memorial to D-Day 5-26-2000 Recalling Truman Recalling Hiroshima 5-23-2000 Memorial Day's Limitless Memory 5-23-2000 Who's Listening? Who Cares? 5-21-2000 Too Late to Save Public Education 5-15-2000 The Blind Fish of Communist China 5-7-2000 Right to Be Wanted, Right to Be Loved 4-16-2000 What Will Putin Produce as He Juggles? 4-2-2000 Al Gore's Daisy Chain of TVA Spoils 3-27-2000 McCain to Bush: 'Do As I Say Do' 3-23-2000 Resonance Schmezonance, News Is News 3-19-2000 Thompson Up, Gore Down in Home State 3-16-2000 Will Bush Take the Chinese Opening? 3-14-2000 Hail to the Vanquished! 3-8-2000 Presidency Is Now Bush's to Bobble 3-1-2000 In Praise of Honest Primaries 2-28-2000 That Chronic Curse of Republicans 2-22-2000 How the Media Flubbed Up Down South 2-20-2000 Helms at the U.N., Bill Still at the Helm 2-14-2000 Helms at the U.N., Bill Still at the Helm 2-13-2000 The United States of Nowhere 2-8-2000 Missing Link in the Presidential Primaries 1-30-2000 It's OK to Vote for Alan Keyes 1-23-2000 Real Life Lives . . . Beyond the Beltway 1-16-2000 Jesus, Just Another Face on a Milk Carton 12-26-1999 Clearest Window on the South Is Closed 12-19-1999 Dead Candidate (W.)alking 12-9-1999 Consuming on the Cuff toward 2000 11-30-1999