Connecting.the.Dots

We lived in a different America then. News that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor came from bulletins that broke into Sunday afternoon...

Karl Rove and his gang refuse to "go gentle into that good night." The Master himself is pontificating away in Newsweek and now o...

By today's standards, Chuck Grassley is right out of a Frank Capra movie. This summer the Republican Senator from Iowa got the Departmen...

As most thinking Americans breathe a sigh of relief over the NIE report on Iran, John Bolton on the editorial page of the Washington Post ,...

He has painted himself into a corner and, no matter where Mitt Romney goes in tonight's speech on religion, he is going to leave messy ...

Half a century ago, TV created a new kind of American assassin, one who would escape insignificance by killing someone famous--a President o...

In the 1960s, a New York Times ad headlined "1,189 Psychiatrists Say Goldwater Is Psychologically Unfit to Be President" led to a...

Last week's news is translating into this week's poll numbers. A new national Los Angeles Times /Bloomberg Poll today shows Mike Huc...

Alberto Gonzalez, Monica Goodling and others of the Bush Brigade who worked so hard to subvert American freedoms are gone, but their mission...

For the middle-class old, of which I am a card-carrying member, the sub-prime mortgage loan crisis is like distant thunder. As storms roil t...

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

Is it sexist to say Hillary Clinton is getting shrill? If you think piercing screams only come from women, remember Howard Dean in 2004. But...

Oops. "A new assessment by American intelligence agencies concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the p...

You are what your pregnant mother ate. Tastes are shaped in the womb, according to the latest news from the world of science, one more oppo...

His lead in the Iowa polls has propelled Mike Huckabee into the Republican top tier, making it a certainty he will be cover-storied, 60-Minu...

In a new encyclical , the Pope declares atheism has led to the "greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice" as clerics in...

The subject of today's sermon is pride--as well as money and power--cometh before a tumble. The Iowa polls show people with names hardly...

Fred Thompson may be onto something. Today's New York Times puzzles over his "sleepy, unconventional" approach to pursuing t...

With Bernard Kerik as a character witness, Mr. 9/11 is fast becoming the most ethically challenged Presidential candidate since Bill Clinto...

Gallup reports today that "Republicans are significantly more likely than Democrats or independents to rate their mental health as exc...