Connecting.the.Dots

David Broder muses today about exit strategies in public life: "Two vastly different public officials--Robert McNamara and Sarah Palin...

The New York Yankees went on a winning streak at their new stadium last week, and two products of the neighborhood have scored big on the po...

After eight years in the Bush bunker, the former Vice-President is out waterboarding voters with interviews to make them confess that electi...

After being overshadowed by another spunky statehouse figure, Alaska's Governor finally gets some attention this weekend as Colin Powell...

"I wish the intelligence had been different, I guess." That, in a nutshell, is George W. Bush's valedictory thought about in...

As Democrats put Obama/Clinton issues behind them, the Republican identity crisis comes front and center in John McCain's decision abou...

By the end of last week, John McCain was agreeing with Barack Obama that 16 months would be "a pretty good timetable" for withdra...

Gen. David Petraeus' boss, the top US Commander for the Middle East, has done what Colin Powell should have done over five years ago, an...

Yesterday's news about Iran's nuclear weapons or, more accurately, lack thereof is an event that recalls Winston Churchill's de...

In the sad-but-probably-true department comes a Politico story about how GQ killed a piece about in-fighting in Hillary’s campaign for co...

It’s sad to see the piling-on. Beyond the infamous MoveOn ad, there are now stories about Petraeus’ penchant for ass-kissing and his presid...

In today’s Washington Post we can see the future, and it doesn’t work. The southern city of Basra, where there has been no sectarian violen...

Murray Kempton, a great journalist of the century past, once wrote, “There is a certain kind of politician who stays safely in the hills dur...