Perhaps nothing contributes more to the rancor of political discourse than the indiscriminate use of political labels as partisan epithets. Labels such as “left-wing” and “right-wing,” “red state” and ...

This fifth week of the session has been the most dramatic to date, with vetoes, overrides and epithets flying about. The theatrics began last weekend. Leaders of the House and Senate met with Gov.

It is a Washington ritual so old that it probably dates back to the era when senators lived in boarding houses and any stray citizen could wander into the White House. As soon as a president unveils a ...

Every journalist gets a smattering of unhinged hate mail from angry readers. But if you’re a Jewish journalist, I bet some of those emails have accused you of being a kapo; it’s happened to me, and it ...

Rush Limbaugh called Michelle Obama fat Monday. Obama and her daughters went skiing in Colorado and afterward ate braised ancho-chile short ribs. The Drudge report pulled a recipe from Food.com for ...

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One of the ugliest moments in the health care reform debate came last week when someone used the “n” word on Cong. John Lewis (D-Atlanta). Let me say at the outset that I don’t think Rep. Lewis has ...

Racial slurs. Anti-gay epithets. The N-word. The F-bomb. Over the last three years, the language used by members of the public at Los Angeles City Council meetings has grown increasingly graphic, ...

Harold LeClair Ickes, Secretary of the Interior and master of PWA, has established himself beyond compare as the champion name-caller of the New Deal. Last week he crossed tongues with ham-fisted ...