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Within 24 hours, the President tackled two national shortfalls--dollars and cents in the government's income vs. expenditures, civility ...

Two men in their nineties died this week. J.D. Salinger , a recluse in New Hampshire, produced four books in his lifetime. Louis Auchincloss...

Until his peroration "to start anew, to carry the dream forward, and to strengthen our union once more," the President spent more ...

A band of Conservative bozos is validating Karl Marx's aphorism that history occurs twice--first as tragedy, then as farce--by staging a...

This week brings intimations of mortality from Osama bin Laden and Carlos the Jackal, two aging terrorists who achieved reknown by cutting s...

Headlines from the President's State of the Union speech have been leaking all week--a three-year spending freeze on domestic programs ...

A Gallup poll confirms that rank-and-file GOP members have followed their leaders in saying "no" to Barack Obama with the widest ...

The Republicans' new Great White Hope could turn out to be a disappointment for the Right wing of the GOP--and an opportunity for Democr...

Presidents can't afford the luxury of getting depressed, so here we have Mr. Audacity of Hope right after the Scott Brown newsshock bein...

John Edwards has admitted that he is the father of Frances Quinn Hunter, the two-year-old daughter of his former mistress, Rielle Hunter: ...

Once, under local anesthesia on an operating table, I overheard doctors in heated disagreement on what to do next. It was not reassuring, bu...

If his widow had run for Ted Kennedy's seat, would she have won yesterday's election ? Although Victoria Reggie Kennedy had spent ...

In these dark days, life still contrives to create moments straight out of feel-good movies, as it did this week in Haiti and has been doing...

As he completes a year in office today, Barack Obama deserves a gift from Americans--a moratorium on savaging him for everything that has go...

As America's bankers take a day of rest to honor the precepts of Martin Luther King comes the suggestion of an anomaly in their policy o...

The national mood disorder is getting worse as Americans act out their unhappiness in every venue available--from the fiasco in late-night T...

If he had survived to turn 81 today, what would Martin Luther King have made of an America in which the racial barrier to the White House ha...

“If we ignore history, we are bound to bail it out again.” That was the opening note of the bipartisan Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission...

The 100-year-old woman who died yesterday takes something with her that is being lost in this century of hatreds on the rise everywhere--a h...

"Like every Democratic president since John F. Kennedy," the New York Times declares, "President Obama is battling the perce...