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Damned Either Way: Merrick Garland Weighs the Mother of All Indictments Aug. 02, 2022
In October 1974, President Gerald Ford appeared before Congress to provide his rationale for pardoni... Read More
Fixing the Biden Bug Out in Afghanistan Aug. 10, 2021
"Those who fail to heed history are doomed to repeat it." This aphorism has been attributed to Edmun... Read More
Dark Winter of a Grand Old Party Feb. 12, 2021
It has been a dreadful three months for the Grand Old Party. On Nov. 3, President Donald Trump seeme... Read More
Who Will Be President Biden's Stu Spencer? Dec. 05, 2020
The first reviews are in on President-elect Joe Biden's choices for Cabinet and White House position... Read More
What Will We, Voters, Be Looking For in Our Next President? Apr. 20, 2019
We Americans have a predictable reaction when a president in his performance or his conduct disappoi... Read More
What Gerald Ford Could Teach Beto O'Rourke in 2018 Oct. 20, 2018
When people learn that I have spent the past 50 years either working in or covering the past 13 pres... Read More
Taking the Disraeli Test Jul. 07, 2018
Benjamin Disraeli, a 19th-century British prime minister and writer, shrewdly advised that to be a s... Read More
Which Politicians Look Like Their Home State? May. 12, 2018
West Virginia — which, between 2015 and 2016, was the only state to see both more deaths than ... Read More
Authentic Republican Wisdom Aug. 05, 2017
American campaigns were not always, I can testify from personal witness, about the politics of perso... Read More
Can Special Elections to the US House Predict Our Political Future? Apr. 22, 2017
Is there an emerging national pattern to be found in special House elections, such as the one that j... Read More
Gerald Ford and the 2016 Election Nov. 05, 2016
On Sept. 8, 1974, one month after he became the nation's only un-elected commander in chief, Preside... Read More
Missing Jerry Ford in 2016 Aug. 27, 2016
During my more than a half-century of living and working in Washington, D.C., in my semi-humble opin... Read More
Democrats' 3rd-Term Blues Dec. 19, 2015
History tends to make Democrats nervous about the 2016 White House election. They know that since 19... Read More
Wanted: An Emotionally Secure Leader Mar. 14, 2015
The late Rep. Morris Udall of Arizona, who finished second in the campaign for the 1976 Democratic p... Read More
Hairy-Chested Liberals Exult: Big Question, Who Do We Kill Next? May. 12, 2011
Pinko terror-simps and the "rule of law" gang may cavil and whine at the lack of legal pro... Read More
