The 3,650 days that will have brought us to 11:59 on the last day of the decade mark the end of this chapter known as the 00s. Reviewing the path that brought us to the verge of 2010 has allowed us limited accessibility into hindsight. Because 10 years is but a thread of the overall tapestry, framing the culmination of a decade into the less epochal mindset of watching the ball drop is more prevalent and doubtless easier than accepting it as the end of an era. Time flows. Like water in a current racing toward the sea, each event in real time becomes the backdrop for the bigger picture of the future. ...more

December 31, 2009

Insane. Childish. Disaster. And those were some of the kinder comments from political pundits about Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and his response to President Barack Obama's speech to Congress on Tuesday night. ...more

February 25, 2009

History records that in 1801 when Thomas Jefferson took the oath of office as the nation's third president, he strolled over from a boardinghouse to an unfinished Capitol building. ...more

January 20, 2009

The big difference between Stephen Colbert and Bill O'Reilly: Colbert is only pretending to be a pompous windbag. ...more

November 21, 2008

When the Sunday morning political pundits began talking last year about the tab for the war in Iraq hitting $1 trillion, Rob Simpson sprang from his sofa in indignation. ...more

October 27, 2008

Some political pundits have said that if it were not for his last name, he might have been the Republican nominee for president this year. But former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush tells me he is happy to support the McCain-Palin ticket, which he predicts, perhaps predictably, will win. Of Gov. Sarah Palin, he says, "She has generated so much enthusiasm, which was the one element of the campaign that was completely missing." ...more

September 14, 2008

You've got to give it to Barack Obama. He took the bait and ran with it, scoring some valuable political mileage abroad. But the question is -- do Americans really care that the Germans and the French love Obama -- enough to give him a ticket to the White House? That remains to be seen. ...more

July 28, 2008

We haven't let go of Tim Russert, yet. And that's a good thing. ...more

June 17, 2008

Don't Let DNC Stop You Regarding "Black Voter Turnout Lags" (Metro, Jan. 27): ...more

January 29, 2008

Many Iowans I've heard from over the last few months complained about the invasion of their state by presidential candidates and the news media covering them. ...more

January 12, 2008