post-gazette.com - Columnists http://www.post-gazette.com/columnists/ All columnists, Morning File en-us Copyright 2009, post-gazette.com. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:29:29 -0500 15 post-gazette.com http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 And the righteous shall conquer spin ... http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09327/1015678-152.stm?cmpid=columnists.xml Probably my thirst for seeing the righteous finally triumph has something to do with the fact that U2 has been pouring from the stereo for days on end. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:41:00 -0500 The Morning File: The way we were (in 2005) http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09327/1015667-294.stm?cmpid=columnists.xml The following are actual statistics, newly released by the U.S. Census Bureau as part of periodic efforts to measure Americans' living standards and sense of well-being. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 46 years ago: From The Pittsburgh Press, Nov. 22, 1963 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015213-294.stm?cmpid=columnists.xml 1963 President John F. Kennedy is shot to death while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. Texas Gov. John B. Connally is seriously wounded. Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Postcard from the new Israel http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015123-149.stm?cmpid=columnists.xml Mesmerized by the land, you can almost forget about 'the situation' Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Let's get on board this train http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015214-155.stm?cmpid=columnists.xml Henry Posner III owns railroads from Iowa to Peru, but, with his buttoned-down, deadpan delivery, he seems more like Bob Newhart than Cornelius Vanderbilt. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Santa letters from North Pole in doubt http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015273-323.stm?cmpid=columnists.xml ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Santa's "elves" at the North Pole have been given their walking papers -- but they're not going quietly. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Obama-haters are perverting Christianity http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014951-153.stm?cmpid=columnists.xml Forty-six years ago this weekend, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in his motorcade in Dallas. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:06:00 -0500 Storytelling: Family frog is still kicking after 17 years http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014949-294.stm?cmpid=columnists.xml He arrived in the mail one bright and sunny December afternoon: a tiny tadpole swimming in a bag of water. He and his accoutrements came in a box marked "Grow a Frog." Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500