Ben Carson, Really?I鈥檇 never heard of something called the 鈥淪outhern Republican Leadership Conference鈥� until last week.So I was decidedly less than impressed when 958 of the Conference鈥檚 1,400 attendees chose Dr. Ben Carson as their straw vote favorite.Ben Carson鈥檚 25 percent exceeded ...
One day in 1993, dozens of House members crowded into the Capitol Hill office of David Bonior, a liberal Democrat from Michigan who was then serving as party whip.The lawmakers, including congressman Ron Klink of Westmoreland County, had gathered to plot the defeat of NAFTA 鈥� the North ...
John Ellis "Jeb" Bush, the yet-to-announce, front-running, Republican presidential candidate, has clearly stated, 鈥淚鈥檓 my own man.鈥漈ranslation: He wants everybody to know that he shouldn鈥檛 be compared to his older brother, who was once less popular than diarrhea.But Jeb has to overcome ...
David McCullough has written a new book, this one about the Wright brothers, the pioneers of flight who took to the skies over the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk, N.C., in 1903.All of this is to the good. McCullough is an accomplished writer-historian whose subjects have included young Teddy ...
I might run for president.I鈥檓 just throwing that out there.I haven鈥檛 even had time to form my 鈥渆xploratory committee鈥� yet.I might get around to it, by the time I finish this column.I do know, that if many more people plan to take a flying leap for the White House, by the time the first ...
In just a few days, David Letterman will hand in his cue cards and his top ten lists and fade (maybe) into television history. His retirement from the helm of the CBS Late Show marks the end of an era that began in the dimming mists of the 1950s with Steve Allen.Letterman descended from a line ...