Charles M. Madigan

It's interesting the way things are planted in your head when you are young. The arrival of presidential campaigning unleashes an avalanche of memories about politics in the 1950s and...

In my private vision of the perfectibility of man, I am 80 yards from my target and just getting to the stage in my "draw" where the pulley wheels on...

I don't care if Newt Gingrich gets married 100 times. It's no surprise to me that relationships blow up. Still, what a callous collection of hypocrites we are on the...

I was a terrible investigative reporter. I hated those "source" things that seemed to be such big menu items in the daily journalism diet. You know about "sources," don't you,...

There are two collections of folks I would rather not hear from as this very early presidential campaign continues its interesting gestation: gaseous far righties and vastly rich lefties. These...

Here's a mistake so stupid it has become a whole column. I failed at trying to make something up. That's hard to get your head around, I know, but it...

Here it is Tuesday, a very important day. A Tuesday in February. What could that mean? Well, in normal times, in olden days, back when I was young, however you...

OK, you're looking at America and you are thinking, "Hey, all the women are going to vote for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton because she's a woman and they are going...

It seems the Bush presidency is effectively over, even though he's going to be around for just over 23 months. His opponents hold Congress. His polling numbers have collapsed. Already,...

Dang! I had a hopeful plan as decline continues to settle on journalism that my future would involve a marriage of my two great minor loves, news and hardware. I...