A June 23 appearance by Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama at the General Synod of the United Church of…
Hands clasped behind his back, he was a silent silhouette as he gazed out the window overlooking the Washington skyline….
It’s the Queeg factor, stupid. The story of Navy Lieutenant Commander Philip Francis Queeg is one of literature and film’s…
His name was Louis McHenry Howe, and he was Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Karl Rove. Running through the various intemperate and…
John McCain has gotten it right. It won’t make him president, but it should bring conservatives up short. In the…
Read any good stories in the New York Herald lately? How about the New York Tribune? Or even the New…
Should July 19th become America’s annual Benchmark for Apologies Day? Former South Dakota Senator and 1972 Democratic Presidential nominee George…
Louisiana Senator David Vitter and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. These are two names that are not ordinarily linked. Senator Vitter,…
The Washington Post got me thinking about Bill O’Reilly’s book Culture Warrior. It was a front-page story, fairly typical for…
It was 144 years ago this week. Thirty-five miles from where I write, for three extraordinarily violent days beginning on…
