In the middle of his hectic and ultimately fatal campaign for president, Robert Kennedy took the time to visit West Virginia, a state with few convention delegates.Kennedy, who announced his candidacy a mere six months before Democratic convention delegates were scheduled to select a nominee, ...
Perspective?That鈥檚 what I was looking to find when I peeked at some of the columns I鈥檇 written for this space ten years ago.My how things have changed.I wrote notes for each of the hundreds of those columns (more than 600 of them) to help me form my opinions.For instance, in a note I wrote ...
On a recent day, cloudy with the temperature somewhere in the 40s, my car climbed the hill to the Duck Hollow golf course. A day or so before, I dodged through several crowded aisles at Wal-Mart until I lit upon the store鈥檚 assortment of golf balls. I bought a bag of scruffy seconds, formerly ...
<strong>鈥淲ho looked stronger politically after the shutdown ended?鈥�</strong><strong>Nancy Pelosi 鈥� 43 percent, President Trump 鈥� 35 percent</strong><em>Fox News Poll, taken February 10 through ...
I was one of those who thought the 2008 election of Barack Obama was a significant milestone in the country鈥檚 tortured history of race relations. A post-race future beckoned for America, or so I naively assumed.It turns out it was significant, but not in the way I imagined. Things have ...
<em>"Golden beaches of California"? This was the lamest, sappiest, most intentionally tear-jerking SOTU ever. Please fire your speechwriter.鈥�</em>-- An Ann Coulter tweet following last week鈥檚 State of the Union speechPresident Trump鈥檚 82-minute, 5,250-word ...