Op/Ed: Cynthia Tucker

ATLANTA'S CORRUPT EX-MAYOR GOT WHAT HE DESERVED

Cynthia Tucker - Sat Jun 17, 8:06 PM ET

Before Bill Campbell came along, Atlanta's City Hall enjoyed a good reputation. It was not mentioned in the same manner as Chicago or New Orleans or Newark. Atlanta did not indulge corrupt politics.

  • KIDS WHO GET HOOKED ON BOOKS HAVE YEARS OF PLEASURE AHEAD Cynthia Tucker - Sat Jun 10, 8:06 PM ET

    When I was a child, reading was about my only option for summer entertainment. Growing up in Monroeville, Ala., meant I was deprived not merely of iPods and MySpace, but of cable television and a mall as well. My hometown didn't even have a McDonald's parking lot that bored adolescents could circle in their parents' cars.

  • ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE PUSH GETS BUSH'S HALF-HEARTED SUPPORT Cynthia Tucker - Thu Jun 8, 4:43 PM ET

    President Bush should be ashamed. He has treated religious conservatives with more disrespect than Hollywood or the so-called liberal media ever could. He has used their opposition to gay marriage as nothing more than a political prop to be trotted out just as the election season begins, and he apparently believes they are naive enough to fall for his clumsy and half-hearted gestures.

  • WAR SUPPORTERS STILL DENY UNPLEASANT TRUTHS ABOUT IRAQ Cynthia Tucker - Sat Jun 3, 8:06 PM ET

    Since last November, when U.S. Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., began calling for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, he has been under fire from hard-core conservatives. Like every combat veteran before him who has come to question the pretext for war or its prosecution, Murtha has been denounced as a traitor, a coward, a defeatist and a liar.

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