Connecting.the.Dots

A Neanderthal general fired for disrespecting his Commander-in-Chief is mouthing off again, proposing a universal draft so “everybody has ...

Sarah Palin’s shadow is over Romney’s campaign in the final stages of selecting a running mate. Mindful of lessons from “Going Rogue” and “G...

Seeded No. 1 by acclamation, the GOP standard bearer is so outdoing himself in issue acrobatics that even a sympathetic judge, Rupert Murdoc...

In a decision last week, the Supreme Court struck down the Stolen Valor Act , making it a crime to claim unearned military honors, as a Cali...

Washington ends a stunning week with a shutdown by Nature to mirror the power failure of its denizens to connect government to actually run...

To the body politic in a near-coma, Justices send a message that will take days to decipher and deconstruct, but the Hallmark version is a 5...

She was never boring. In movies, novels and essays, Nora Ephron , who died yesterday at 71, had a gift for breathing life and wit into every...

A tipping point for the national psyche is here as Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia prepare to rule on health care reform, in a decision ...

With his stroke-slurred speech, my ancient friend Kirk Douglas last night responded to Bill Maher’s aggressive ignorance with the anatomical...

Will this be the ugliest presidential year in living memory? Not a chance. In 1968, murders (of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy) ...

Let’s step back from depressing daily political news for a longer look at the 2012 narrative. At the end of summer, Democrats will have ...

George H. W. Bush turns 88 this week with a family clambake in Kennebunkport, an HBO special and, despite Parkinson ravages, plans to skydi...

Unawareness would be a gift in times like these--a blessing to rinse the mind of Mitt Romney , John Boehner, Mitch McConnell and their cont...

The ultimate irony of 2012 would be for Mitt Romney to win by running away from health care reforms he once pioneered while Barack Obama’s p...