Donald Kaul wrote columns for 50 years, beginning with a long stint at the Des Moines Register that made him a household name (in a good way) throughout Iowa. OtherWords distributed his columns from 2001 through July 2012, when he had a heart attack and declared that he needed either a temporary or permanent break. Kaul, who was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for commentary in 1987 and 1999, lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. You can read more about his career in this column.
Can our nation survive $5-a-gallon gas?
“Don’t let the door hit you on the way out” sounds even worse in Arabic than in English.
“Don’t let the door hit you on the way out” is terrifying in Arabic.
You wouldn’t think it would take Him four shots to pick a winner.
Liberals aren’t trying to make anyone use birth control.
Despite the Santorum speed bump, it seems certain now that Mitt Romney will be the eventual nominee.
Just like anything else, with national-security strategy nature abhors a vacuum.
A two-war strategy is like a two-car garage — you’ll own two cars sooner or later.
I’m forming my very own Super PAC.
A zero on the home front’s Richter Scale.
The end of the Iraq War was accompanied by the sound of one hand clapping.
Big money makes writing about climate change action and gun control a lost cause.
By November, a third of the American people will believe that Barack Obama kidnapped the Lindbergh baby and Michelle drove the getaway car.
Obama seems to have confused the “bully pulpit” with a “bully suggestion box.”
Although the media may behave otherwise, Iowa’s oddball caucuses are as apt to choose a loser as a winner.
What you call credit card debt is what some other person calls a job.
We’re being sold a bill of goods, people.
In any case, being good at pasta is better than being good at war.
Walmart’s sales are down because people are skimping on things like milk and food while Saks Fifth Avenue is selling lots of $1,000 handbags and $2,000 suits.
Moving to the big table wouldn’t have been such a big deal if what you found when you got there was broccoli.