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Columns

  • Disturbing abuses of power

    COLBERT KING

    columnist

    kingc@washpost.com

     

    East Germany’s Ministry for State Security, also known as the Stasi, was a major challenge during my three-year stint as an attache at the U.S. Embassy in Bonn during the 1960s. Detecting and preventing Stasi agents from penetrating the security of U.S. diplomatic facilities in West Germany was a 24-7 undertaking.

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  • The media’s tea party movement

    Rarely has the White House briefing room so resembled the main ballroom at a meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference.

    After news broke of a sweeping Justice Department subpoena of The Associated Press telephone records, White House press secretary Jay Carney didn’t so much have to deal with querulous reporters pressing him on all fronts. He had to deal with citizens bristling with anger over perceived encroachments on their rights by an overweening government.

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  • Bardstown’s good marks on ‘walkability’

    The spotlight has been shining bright on our old Kentucky home.

    Last year, Bardstown received national recognition by Rand McNally and USA Today for its small-town charm, and this month, the Kentucky Arts Council honored the city for its cultural appeal. 

    We can add another feather to our hat. It would seem Bardstown is also one of the most “walkable” small towns in Kentucky.

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  • Prevention Week is a time to focus on youth

    I’ve shared with you many statistics over the last couple of years about Kentucky’s prescription drug abuse epidemic. At the time of 2012 legislation aimed at cracking down on questionable pain-management clinics, or so-called ‘pill mills,’ 1,000 Kentuckians were dying each year from pain pill overdose.

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  • The invisible lawmakers?

    Lee H. Hamilton/Director of the Center of Congress

    Want to know what’s causing a lot of people in Washington to work long hours right now? Here’s a hint: it’s not immigration reform or gun control or, for that matter, any other legislation coming down the pike. Instead, it’s a pair of three-year-old laws. 

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  • Divided, we fall

    Chad McCoy/Community Columnist

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  • How politics has changed

    By Lee H. Hamilton, Director of the Center on Congress, Indiana University

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  • Uncovering not-so-buried treasure

    Have you ever found a dollar in your pocket that you didn’t know you had or forgot about? It’s like finding a buried treasure. And that is just what we have right here in Nelson County and most of us take it for granted.

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  • Republicans lead a witch hunt on Benghazi

    Those who are trying to make the Benghazi tragedy into a scandal for the Obama administration really ought to decide what story line they want to sell.

    Actually, by “those” I mean Republicans, and by “the Obama administration” I mean Hillary Clinton. The only coherent purpose I can discern in all of this is to sully Clinton’s record as secretary of state in case she runs for president in 2016.

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  • The Benghazi patsy

    Nakoula Basseley Nakoula deserves a place in American history. He is the first person in this country jailed for violating Islamic anti-blasphemy laws.

    You won’t find that anywhere in the charges against him, of course. As a practical matter, though, everyone knows that Nakoula wouldn’t be in jail if he hadn’t produced a video crudely lampooning the prophet Muhammad.

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