Playing the health care card
So, Mitt Romney is finally just about prohibitively ahead after a long slog through lots of little corners of conservative America. Even barring any more ridiculous gaffes, Rick Santorum won't...
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Does God have a connection to politics?
I fear that, once again, God and the things people attribute to God will move to the center of our quest for a president. On the one hand, we have...
Gingrich could pull an ‘Obama’
Newt Gingrich deserves the candidacy he launched in a tweet Wednesday. Sure, people have been bashing him for months, ever since he hinted he might be getting close to settling...
A royal mess
As I understand it, royalty comes from an ancient assumption that, once having seized power, a ruler can invent whatever ridiculous rationale he needs to invent to justify the excesses...
Assume the worst in Russian killings
In the Cold War, when it was safe and prudent always to look for darkness, an assumption drove much of Moscow-based U.S. journalism: "No matter what happens, identify the worst...
Holiday gas prices fuel a cutback plan
On the horizon is vacation, which means loading the diesel wagon with all the junk required for 10 days or so at the Atlantic Ocean, everything, basically, but bait and...
The warriors return
The remains of Lance Cpl. Edward Miller were shipped home from Vietnam in 1967, if I remember correctly, a little before it became fashionable for college students to spit on...
Pre-emptive war is an unmistakable error
We have made a big mistake. It's not the war in Iraq. I think that is a consequence of our big mistake that seems to be proving with every passing...
Controls don’t work
Polling results in the wake of the Virginia Tech slayings make it clear that people believe there is something that can happen in gun law that will lessen the chance...
‘And in the first turn, it’s …’
"On the inside, it's ... Barack's Hope moving up quickly on Clinton's Ambition ... Pretty Boy Edwards just a length behind ... And there's Flaggin' John McCain falling back ......