Connecting.the.Dots

The candidate’s son Matt steps into a brouhaha by answering a question about his father’s refusal to release tax returns by being flip abou...

If Mitt Romney wins in Iowa next week, he could find nipping at his heels the runt of the 2011 litter. Two weeks ago, in post-debate stup...

Reading bloggers' own favorite posts of 2011 is a reminder of how much political and social sanity has been lost in this Tea Party world...

Breaking up is hard to do, but much more expensive in today’s Hollywood than rural Georgia of three decades ago. Mel Gibson is finally div...

A mutual grandparent at holiday dinner confronts me with the accusation that I fired a cinema icon in the 1960s. Guilty. So I may as well sh...

In the residue of Christmas spirit, a serious attempt to understand what’s behind a toxic cloud that the Tea Party has cast over American go...

We’ve all done it, and Mitt seems like someone who wouldn’t hesitate to pass on a second-hand present. He did it to a voter yesterday. Ask...

Talk about misreading a mandate: The bitter enders give the President the best Christmas present of all—-pushing their block-and-blame stra...

I can’t gift-wrap this, but it’s the closest thing to a Christmas treasure that I have to share. Decades ago, I published it twice in differ...

Washington’s new impasse could ironically lead to a gift of sanity as the House Tea Party is finally revealed for the berserk faction it ha...

I am haunted by the opening lines of an old novel : "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." Lately, I...

If the feisty Libertarian, who now leads in Iowa , should win the nomination, all of us who have qualms about 21st century government will b...

When scoring athletes look upward and thank God for His help, why don’t opponents ever shake their fists at the sky for being disfavored? ...

His opponents sound like Occupy Wall Street protesters as the SEC files charges against six top executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, w...

With the leaders underplaying conflict , Michele Bachmann takes center stage to give an over-the-top performance worthy of Gloria Swanson in...

Our departure , after nine years, almost 4500 deaths and trillions of dollars, comes not with a bang but a whimper of exhaustion and relief....

I dozed off last night watching one of those Liam Neeson action movies in which he wrecks cities for reasons too complicated to explain and ...

After a year of being held hostage by Tea Party naysayers, the party that controls the White House and Senate is finally gift-wrapping a pac...

Watching the President on 60 Minutes last night raises wonder at why more Americans aren’t rallying around this highly intelligent, energet...

The least passionate segment of last night’s debate was a brief round on personal family values. Without glancing at Gingrich, his advers...