History waits for no man, I suppose, but it was certainly odd having to wait for the Don Hewitt tribute on 60 Minutes to run on January 24 to discover that Bill and Hillary Clinton were almost killed

President Obama was on TV twice last week, both times for over an hour, though his stint on Friday at the House Republicans’ “retreat” was the better performance, though one seen by less than on

The old railroad robber baron, Jay Gould, said, “I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half,” and he was talking about unions and workers organizing, not the recent Massachuse

What’s worse this last week?

Though the shoe bomber Richard Reid parallel has been often cited, in regards to the Christmas Day attempted Delta bombing, the Ronald Reagan 1983 Beirut barracks bombing hasn’t come up as much when

We’re back to the game of Connecting the Dots. Like the song doesn’t quite say, Who Let the Bomber On?, but that is the question.

End of the year ruminations. 2009 started on a high (with the Inauguration) and ends as 2008 ended: with the Obamas in Hawaii.

Is there a group trying to take the X out of Xmas? Contact Glenn Beck and other Foxers, if so.

Nobel Prize acceptance speeches are often snoozers, though the literary recipients sometimes rise to the occasion. John Steinbeck (1962) and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1970) come to mind.

President Obama’s speech last Tuesday at West Point, certifying the obvious, announcing that he intends to send the additional 30,000 plus troops requested by his generals to Afghanistan, was the mo