Washington Conscientious conservative that I am, every afternoon I attempt to clear my mind of the day’s claptrap and sprinkle…
The Constitution stipulates that impeachment is confined to a president’s high crime or misdemeanor, not his unpopularity. To date, the…
Two years after the Civil War ended in 1865, a Republican Congress gained a veto-proof majority in both chambers. They…
In November, 1863, the New York Herald reported that a temperance committee had asked President Lincoln to dismiss Ulysses S. Grant….
Here I am in Naples, Florida ending the year in the sun and actually coterminous with a golf course. I, of course, will not indulge in the sport, for I find it too leisurely. Actually I do not even consider it a sport. I am in agreement with my old friend, the great basketball coach Bob Knight. A true sport demands conditioning, applied strength, speed, and, of course, art. Golf involves only art. In fact, when strength and conditioning are demanded most golfers take to their golf carts. Golf is as much a sport as bowling or billiards or canasta. So I shall continue to desist from golf here in sunny Florida and leave the pastime of golf to my friends Rush Limbaugh, Donald Trump, and Bill Clinton. Does Hillary Clinton golf? She looks more like a bowler to me.
Washington Did you know this? “Not since Lincoln has there been a president as fundamentally shaped — in his life,…
Historians often write that Ulysses S. Grant was a great general, but a poor president who presided over numerous scandals….
