By Robert Burns | Associated Press
| June 7, 2008
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is likely to recommend to President Bush that he nominate a former Air Force executive, Michael Donley, to the service's top civilian post, a senior defense official said Friday.
Leonard Pitts Jr.
| June 9, 2008
You've seen this gag in a hundred old cartoons:
James J. Kilpatrick | Universal Press Syndicate
| June 7, 2008
The polls are now closed. There was a consensus, but it was not my consensus, so it doesn't count. I should not have asked for a vote. Permit me to explain. As every Constant Reader will recall, this was the question put before the house: Does the antecedent “everyone” take only the single referent “his”?
Exempli gratia: On a doubtful proposition, does everyone still have only HIS opinion? Or have the rules changed so that everyone may now have THEIR opinion?
