In literature, pop culture and actual life, few moments satisfy like the big bully getting what's coming to him, or her. This would explain everything from the enduring appeal of David's felling of Goliath to the righteous pleasure of seeing repeat apprentice Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, the 21st century phenomenon, fired twice by Donald Trump. ...more

February 25, 2009

The president, convinced that the only thing America has to fear is an insufficiency of fear, has warned that "disaster" and "catastrophe" are the certain alternatives to swift passage of the stimulus legislation. One marvels at his certitude more than one envies his custody of this adventure. ...more

February 11, 2009

In 1960, when Russia's Khrushchev observed John Kennedy's cowardly abandonment of America's promise to provide air cover for the Cuban exile invader force at Bay of Pigs, he perceived Kennedy as spineless and began moving Russian missiles into Cuba. We were brought to the brink of nuclear war. ...more

February 6, 2009

Betty Owen is 92 and after a stroke four years ago, needs a feeding tube and can't walk. But she was determined not to miss Tuesday's election. She arrived at her polling place on a gurney in an ambulance, where an election judge and support worker climbed aboard with an electronic voting machine and let her cast her ballot. ...more

November 4, 2008

Perhaps the only institution in America whose approval rating is beneath that of Congress is the media. ...more

October 25, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Two members of the Pasco County Republican Executive Committee say the party chairman is trying to manipulate an upcoming intraparty election to make sure he stays in power. ...more

July 16, 2008

It was President Bush who introduced the ghost of Neville Chamberlain into the 2008 presidential election. ...more

May 29, 2008

Sen. Edward Kennedy implored Americans on Monday "to turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion," as he placed the aura of the most prominent Democratic family around Sen. Barack Obama's candidacy. ...more

January 29, 2008

Not Your Father's Democratic Party In his letter of Dec. 12, Dallas Dunlap included a list of significant achievements by the Democratic Party. Also of significance was the fact that the most recent of these dates to over 40 years ago. The reason is simple: That was around the time that Mr. Dunlap's party lost its course. The party of Roosevelt, Truman and JFK began its death spiral in the 1970s. ...more

December 14, 2007

Almost perfect in tone and delivery, Mitt Romney's long-awaited "religion speech" should reassure people of faith and students of American history that he has no intention of pushing the tenets of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on the nation. ...more

December 7, 2007