<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Editorial Page Columns</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/print/sunday/outlook/columns?nav=rss_print/sunday/outlook/columns</link><description>Editorial Page Columns</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[FAIR or Unfair Game?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12491-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/outlook/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12491-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/outlook/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:47:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  I was  inundated with e-mails and phone messages last week from  700 or so faithful followers of FAIR, short for Fairness &#38; Accuracy in Reporting. One of several self-described media watchdog operations on both sides of the political divide, FAIR labels itself "progressive" and comes at things from a liberal position. Its targets are usually on the right.]]></description><author> Michael Getler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unread and Unsubscribing]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10698-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/outlook/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10698-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/outlook/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:47:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  If you awake before dawn you probably hear a daily sound that may become as anachronistic as the clatter of horses' hooves on urban cobblestones. The sound is the slap of the morning paper on the sidewalk.]]></description><author> George F. Will</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Influence, and Irony, for Sale]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10697-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/outlook/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10697-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/outlook/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:47:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  You can't entirely blame Tom DeLay for being annoyed and feeling abused. He is trapped in a Washington kabuki drama not of his own devising.]]></description><author> Michael Kinsley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Shifting Focus on Terrorism]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10695-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/outlook/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10695-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/outlook/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:47:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  A new look for President Bush's global war on terrorism sits atop Condoleezza Rice's early to-do list at the State Department. Expect fairly soon some useful new handles on the problem and a more coherent overall strategy to guide the struggle that the bureaucracy abbreviates as GWOT.]]></description><author> Jim Hoagland</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blunt but Effective]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10694-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/outlook/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10694-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/outlook/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:47:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  President Bush's nomination of John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has generated a bad case of dyspepsia among a number of senators, who keep putting off a confirmation vote. That hesitation is now portrayed as a consequence of Bolton's purported "mistreatment" of several State Department intelligence analysts. But this is a smoke screen. The real reasons Bolton's opponents want to derail his nomination are his oft-repeated criticism of the United Nations and other international organizations, his rejection of the arguments of those who ignore or excuse the inexcusable (i.e., the election of Sudan to the U.N. Human Rights Commission) and his willingness to express himself with the bark off.]]></description><author> Lawrence S. Eagleburger</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Judicious Compromise]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10692-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/outlook/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10692-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/outlook/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:47:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  It is not too late to avoid a Senate-splitting rules fight over President Bush's embattled judicial nominees and achieve something positive for both the public and the cause of good government, if only Democrats and Republicans can free themselves for a moment from the death grip of the opposing outside interest groups.]]></description><author> David S. Broder</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Need  Of a Little  Credit]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10652-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/outlook/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10652-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/outlook/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:47:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Each of Maryland's three levels of government  --  city, county and state  --  should enact a homestead tax credit similar to the one the District has. Such a tax credit would provide meaningful property tax relief to homeowners and make property taxes progressive without depleting government coffers.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black, White and the Sterling Grays]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10653-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/outlook/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10653-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/outlook/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:47:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  I was 15 on April 10, 1945, when I took a seat in the front of a segregated Virginia bus to ride to Washington. At the bus terminal downtown, I then caught an integrated trolley to Griffith Stadium to see a game between the Homestead Grays and the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro Leagues.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fishing for Votes at the Shad Planking]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10654-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/outlook/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10654-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/outlook/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:47:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Bony fish. Pine trees. Signs. Pols. Hacks. Dust. Beer. More signs. Speeches. More beer. Press. A thousand or so assorted Virginians.]]></description><author> Gordon C. Morse</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taking the Measure of a New Pope]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10655-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/outlook/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10655-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/outlook/columns</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:47:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ <em> When the bells rang at the Basilica of the National Shrine by the Catholic University campus Tuesday, signaling that a new pope had been selected, students in a journalism course wrote down their thoughts about Pope Benedict XVI  and about what his selection may mean for their generation and the church in general. </em>]]></description><author></author></item></channel></rss>