Connecting.the.Dots

Alfonse M. D’Amato, who preceded Chuck Schumer in the U.S. Senate, was affectionately known as “Senator Pothole” for his tireless efforts fo...

When marchers in Selma, Alabama were being beaten on the Edmund Pettus bridge in March 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. was not with them. When ...

If the front-runners win nomination for ’08, New York will have its first Presidential Subway Series in history. But a weirder scenario may ...

The odometer in my head clicked up a notch today to 83. If you count blogging, I’ve been in journalism 65 years. Time moved slowly when I wa...

Watching Al Sharpton with Jon Stewart this week was a wrenching experience. It would take a heart of stone not to be moved by the Reverend’s...

As a book end to the Hillary Clinton " testosterone test ," Maureen Dowd in today's New York Times relates her attempt to enco...

They’re 17, 18, 19 years old and voting for the first time in 2008. Will they go to the polls thinking Presidents always lie? They were pre-...

In our impatience to get to November 2008, we’re like kids twitching in the family car on a long trip. The coloring books and sweet treats a...

Hillary Rodham Clinton would have a better chance of becoming President if 9/11 had never happened. That trauma stalled, at least temporaril...

There is one thing in today’s world that is not over-hyped. The bad news is that you have to wait until late in life to experience it. I spe...

At the end of the Civil War, General Robert E. Lee, who refused to give newspaper interviews throughout his life, was asked to write his mem...

During his pre-announcement of his pre-candidacy to David Letterman last night, John McCain said American lives have been "wasted"...

Eons ago, when I was a newspaper copy boy, they called it “human interest,” filling out the day’s happenings with little tales of quirky peo...

Talk about making lemonade: John Edwards is now telling reporters he is “proud” to admit his mistake in voting for the Iraq war in 2002. In ...

It’s painful to see the Grand Old Party in disarray, flirting with the liberal likes of Giuliani and McCain when the answer to its ’08 probl...

Speaking of posthumous (but not quite) publicity, herewith more than you want to know about your blushing blogtogenarian, written with supe...

Will somebody please, please bury Anna Nicole Smith and James Brown so we can stop hearing about their posthumous real-estate problems? All ...

If Newt Gingrich is the Republican answer, what is the question? As Rudy Giuliani and John McCain try to retro-fit themselves to ultra-cons...

An image persists. America is in one of those jerking jalopies in an old silent movie with speeded-up film, heading for a cliff. In the driv...

Fifty years ago, after debating Presidential policies in the Middle East, Congress approved the Eisenhower Doctrine in March 1957. The worl...