Hard not to conclude that Russia's efforts to affect our 1916 election actually succeeded. Circumstantial evidence keeps adding up. No...

This has been a busy month. Things have happened too fast to keep up. I have been following the two party conventions. I have a good idea ...

Watching Bernie Sanders wrestle with the challenge of acknowledging the end of the Democratic nomination contest, I am reminded of Senator G...

The first election I remember is 1948. Republicans were certain of victory. President Truman was not as popular as Roosevelt had been. The c...

I want to share a recent article by William Greider analyzing the Republican paralysis in the House of Representatives: GOP I am not as op...

A lot of nonsense has been promulgated by Oriental Town Government about why I filed suit against the Town over closing of Avenue A and Sout...

"No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two,...

I want to share the following quote from the New York Times columnist, Tom Edsall: "Democrats today convey only minimal awareness of ...

Scotland votes today on the referendum to leave the United Kingdom. Yes or No? The polls don't reveal how the vote will go. Earlier th...

PEC - Princeton Election Consortium; Dkos - Daily KOS; WaPo - Washington Post; 538 -Five Thirty-Eight; Upshot - New York Times

Col. Wilkerson, who served as Secretary of State Powell's Chief of Staff during the George W. Bush administration is the epitome of the ...

The clock on life is ticking. If you wait for life to be fair you may be waiting until life is over.  - Charles M. Blow

Memorial Day weekend seems like a strange time for a US Senator to lash out at Veteran's organizations. Senator Richard Burr of North Ca...

“There is no one in more pursuit of publicity than a retired military officer,” Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma said about last Tuesday...

A week from today, Ukraine holds a fateful election. The Ukrainians I met two decades ago want only to be a normal European country. They ha...

Disaster in a Turkish mine. Accident? Probably no one intentionally caused the explosion. But in such an instance, there are really no acc...

The budget just passed by the Republican House of Representatives sheds new light on the phrase "living within our means." ...

The US Supreme Court earlier today ruled in McCutcheon v Federal Election Commission that FEC ceilings on how much money a wealthy donor can...

“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” ― William Faulkner, Essays, Speeches & Pu...

The West's contribution to the totally unprecedented challenge of conversion of the Soviet Union to a democratic and market-based societ...