Reid Collins
The verbosity of the Kean-Hamilton “Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission” is forecast in its title: “Without Precedent.” Couldn’t they have said “Unprecedented” and hewn to similar economy in the remainder of the writing?
Just a couple of blocks from the White House, the shots were heard by the Secret Service officers on duty. Two shots. Somebody hailed police and described the vehicle they came from and, before long, the cops had pulled over…
To: Attorney General, City of Chicago Your worship: As I recall, I shot a man named John Dillinger to death in your city in the summer of 1934. It was outside a movie theatre and I could name the movie…
Exactly how many “student” visas are issued annually to those from Islamic States? How many actually go to their stated destinations (thinking of the covey of missing Egyptians who never made it to Bozeman, Montana, but who were not, the…
It looked like Armageddon for sure. There on MSNBC was a declaration: “Breaking News!” which went on to say that Israel had dropped a “23-ton bomb” on a Hezbollah bunker in south Beirut. The breaking news item kept reappearing last…
“Soccer,” a friend once told me, “resembles nothing more than a Sunday school picnic run amok.” Now, now, I chided at the time. There must be something to it. See how popular it is. If my friend reads this, I…
Knocks on the doors in the middle of the night rousted some 2200 people from their homes in Montgomery County, just north of the District of Columbia. A “mandatory evacuation,” said the knockers. “The dam is leaking.” The dam in…
The hits keep coming. The Center for Public Integrity has somehow stumbled onto the habits of the U.S. Congress, to discover that in the space of five and a half years lawmakers and staffers have accepted some $50 million worth…
They played what is now the Bank of America Colonial golf tournament in Ft. Worth this past weekend. Prior to that it had been the MasterCard Colonial, but the one to remember occurred long before everything, golf events included, was…
The slogan on the aircraft carrier was wrong. It should have read, “The War Is Over,” and not “Mission Accomplished.” And President Bush should have emerged from his arrival jet not in a flight suit but in civilian dress. The…
