The Faith, Hope, and Love of Reid Buckley
It is hard to remember when Reid Buckley wasn’t a part of my life, so prominent and life-altering a place he occupied the past 20 years or so. Not only ...
A Tale of Two Women
It is a legitimate question: Why is the resume-thin Caroline Kennedy being treated seriously as a prospective appointee to the U.S. Senate when the comparatively more-qualified Gov. Sarah Palin received ...
Camelot-Come-Lately
But of course Caroline Kennedy will become the next senator from New York.
Does she deserve it? Not really.
Does that matter? Probably not.
Kennedy’s likely appointment to fill the seat being vacated ...
Nightmare on Facebook
It always seems like fun at the time. Then the photo surfaces.
Two guys, some beer and a cardboard cutout of Hillary Clinton have created fresh grief for the young and ...
Ink by the Barrell, Graft by the Pound
In the bailout spirit of cutting costs and protecting resources, what say we just arrest the state of Illinois and sort out the details later?
I say this as one whose ...
Them Oogedy-Boogedy Blues
When it comes to irresistible words, “oogedy-boogedy” has few peers.
In the several days since I first used the term in a column describing the Republican party’s “religious” problem, oogedy-boogedy seems ...
Tweeting the Twitterati
“I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.”
— Blaise Pascal
We are sitting at a restaurant counter, sipping wine ...
Change Can Be Slow
Sound the alarms, man the barracks, alert the producers! Barack Obama, agent of change, isn’t a-changin’.
As the president-elect recycles Clintonistas for Cabinet appointments — even considering Hillary for secretary of ...
Bailing Out Ignorance
So much for the wisdom of The People.
A new report from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) on the nation’s civic literacy finds that most Americans are too ignorant to vote.
Out ...
The Word for Freedom
The word is powerful.
In fact, one might even say the word is power.
No one is more acutely aware of this than Jeffrey Gedmin, president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL).
Yes, ...