Whether you supported President Obama or not in 2008, his clear lack of focus in recent weeks has to give one pause. Today, while the situations in Japan and Libya spin seemingly out of control, we learn that the President is filming his NCAA March Madness picks that will be made available tomorrow live on […]

“Everyone here is puzzled as to how many casualties the international community judges to be enough for them to help. Maybe we should start committing suicide to reach the required number,” Libyan rebel spokesman, Essam Gheriani, as reported in The Telegraph.

Brave Companions by David McCullough (Simon and Schuster 1992) describes sacrifices Americans have made throughout history to advance the national cause. Most of these portraits involve well-know figures like John and Washington Roebling, Charles and Anne Lindbergh, Frederic Remington, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. But others describe the courage of veritable unknowns, those laboring on the […]

If you knew what you were going to look like in 20 or 30 years, would it make you save money?  Not for a plastic surgery procedure – or a plastic bag and a handful of tuenols – but for retirement? That’s what a Northwestern University study found, according to Rupert Murdoch’s new online newspaper, […]

Huge congratulations to friend and mentor Ed Rollins on his induction into the American Association of Political Consultants Hall of Fame.  Ed is as tough and as charming as they come, and there is no better story teller in America.  His stories are so good, in fact, that not a single one of them can […]

It’s hard not to like someone who pokes fun at himself, even when it’s the normally-strident James Carville. Carville deserves credit for this self-deprecatory Newsweek interview about his 2009 bomb, 40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation. “I’m not one to hide my bad calls,” Carville explains. “When I was wrong […]

CNN is getting its mojo back.  At least I think so. A network I once loved – and then couldn’t stand to watch – has again become the default station on my television screen at night. It’s all the international news of course. The revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East and the tsunami […]

Looks like the country is about to have a big conversation again about energy; this time not just about our dependence on foreign oil, but on the vulnerabilities of nuclear power plants as well. Nuclear power had been making a major comeback in public opinion in the U.S.  The situation in Japan will halt that […]

The union-controlled Democratic Party is trying to turn lemons into lemonade in the wake of their Wisconsin Waterloo. The New York Times today reports that the Democrats plan to use the Wisconsin fight as a rallying cry for fundraising and Party organizing in 2012.  They especially hope to lure away from Republicans unaffiliated  voters who […]

Smithsonian Magazine’s March cover story is well-timed. Entitled “Future Shocks,” it is on the study of  earthquakes and tsunamis, those previously unrecorded in history and the potential for others to occur. The story focuses on past and potential quakes in the Pacific Northwest.  Predictions remain elusive, but past disasters, Smithsonian reports,  can now be recorded […]