Connecting.the.Dots

Sunday morning news from the sanctity-of human-life front: "George Tiller, a Wichita doctor who was one of the few doctors in the nati...

Today's joint statement by Sens. Max Baucus and Ted Kennedy promising to “seek common ground on health reform legislation” is, in essen...

Grownups are just children who owe money, said a character in the 1992 movie "Peter's Friends" and now, with the economic cris...

Heartbreaking news for Antonin Scalia ( irony alert ): His reputation as the warmest, fuzziest Justice may be endangered by Barack Obama...

With a decade of rehearsal, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have their act down pat--the regular guy who never raises his voice and his hair-...

For the coming political battle, the last Kennedy of his generation is sounding the trumpet for health care reform . "Over the last y...

Since the President made so much of biography in introducing his Supreme Court nominee, every facet of Sonia Sotomayor's life seems up f...

A newly released transcript shows the President's Senate replacement craven but just short of corrupt in his slavering for the appointm...

As Republicans mull their response to the naming of a Latino woman to the Supreme Court, they have the benefit of legal scholarship from Jo...

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...

Flags, parades and speeches celebrate those who fought and died for their country, but what they did--and still do--is better commemorated b...

Stooping to psychobabble this Memorial Day weekend, I find myself wondering: What is the former Vice President, who evaded military service ...

"And there I was, former president of the United States of America, with a plastic bag on my hand," George W. Bush told high-scho...

The 9/11 world is back with full force as Barack Obama makes the case for a judicious approach to terrorism, Dick Cheney argues that only b...

A note to Washington Central Casting: Now that the President has signed on for a 9/11 Commission to investigate the economic downturn, let...

As the President begins one-on-one interviews with replacements for David Souter, his eventual choice will be only the start of a four- or ...

Banks getting taxpayer bailouts are also cashing in on the demise of people who work for them or once did. Today's Wall Street Journal ...

Some divine Anthropologist must be balancing the racial books for America, giving us an African-American as president who is a superbly tale...

As Americans struggle metaphorically with where the country is heading comes news of an imminent loss of our literal sense of direction. A G...

The Vice-President pinch-hit for his old friend Tim Russert yesterday and scored high on nostalgia. Replacing the late Meet the Press host a...