http://www.post-gazette.com/columnists Tony Norman's column en-us Copyright 2009, post-gazette.com. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:29:46 -0500 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014951-153.stm?cmpid=norman.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 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09321/1014022-153.stm?cmpid=norman.xml When CIA officers waterboarded confessed Sept. 11 terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed 183 times, they never imagined their actions would be cited by defense attorneys in a civilian court. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:36:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09317/1013136-153.stm?cmpid=norman.xml The sudden resignation of Lou Dobbs from CNN this week is a shock to fans of barely disguised wingnuttery everywhere. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:44:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09314/1012130-153.stm?cmpid=norman.xml A few years ago, I finally got around to reading "Black No More," a novel by the late journalist, social satirist and novelist George Schuyler. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:39:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011296-153.stm?cmpid=norman.xml Yesterday afternoon on the North Shore, a nearly 11-foot sculpture of Fred Rogers was unveiled. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:50:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09307/1010299-153.stm?cmpid=norman.xml No one laughed at Barbra Streisand when she did it. Neil Diamond did two of them, and folks fell over themselves praising it. Tue, 3 Nov 2009 08:09:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09303/1009431-153.stm?cmpid=norman.xml Last month a reader wanted to know why I didn't write a column about Derrion Albert, the 16-year-old honor student whose murder outside his Chicago school was captured on cell phone video. Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:36:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09300/1008552-153.stm?cmpid=norman.xml A decade ago while visiting Paris, I noticed that most of the black men I saw bopping around the City of Lights shaved their heads. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:38:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09296/1007770-153.stm?cmpid=norman.xml Nader has been the victim of more playa' hatin' than just about any figure in contemporary American politics. Merely whispering his name is enough to elicit hisses of derision across the political spectrum. Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:03:00 -0400