Today's Opinions

Getting your e-mail account hacked is the tech equivalent to catching a cold: Despite taking precautions to protect yourself by washing your hands and installing antiviral programs on your hard drive, even your best efforts can be overwhelmed.
After logging on and seeing a flurry of e-mails, some from people with whom I rarely communicate, with subject headings such as “RE: very important” and “RE: hello,” I knew I had been hacked.

“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.”
— Henry David Thoreau

Americans are not revolutionaries by nature despite the name of the war that gave us independence.
The Russians and the French, on the other hand, conducted real revolutions, and we know how those went: Off went the heads of the moneyed, power elite only to be replaced by another form of despotism. It seems poor, working and middle classes can’t get a break.

A debate within the Democratic Party is over Barack Obama’s re-election strategy: Should he run as a problem-solving pragmatist like Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1936, a “fire-breathing liberal” to some, or as a centrist, a “Republican Lite,” like Bill Clinton in 1996?
While Roosevelt savored pillorying “economic royalists,” Clinton echoed Ronald Reagan and made nice with the right by announcing the end of big government.