Lindsey Graham is a walking, talking contradiction.The longtime public servant has stood on principle for much of his adult life.But there are times when he鈥檚 been known to crumble under the weight of some withering public scrutiny.Let鈥檚 first look at his public service.He was commissioned ...
The past several weeks have not been kind to Democrats, and if they are unable to pass their sweeping domestic legislative agenda, at least in some form, things could go from bad to worse.Ten months into the Biden presidency, Democrats are in a deep funk.For one thing, their poll numbers are ...
Want to make a bundle?Write a book about Donald Trump.Trump books have been in high demand since he took office in 2017.According to the British newspaper The Guardian 鈥� 鈥渢here were more than 4,500 English language books about Mr. Trump that have been published since January of ...
In an essay nine years ago, Eric Liu, a former White House adviser to President Bill Clinton, said that civics 鈥� as in high school history and social studies 鈥� was 鈥渦nsexy.鈥滱 real turn-off, man.Kids aren鈥檛 learning a thing, Liu maintained. Or, they鈥檙e not learning what鈥檚 both ...
I have no other explanation, but I was wrong.Dead wrong.It was the kind of unforced blunder that requires only forthright contrition.Here it is.Last week in this space, I referred to an NFL team called the Baltimore Colts.There is no such team.There hasn鈥檛 been a team in Baltimore named the ...
On Sept. 23, 1956, 44,932 鈥渂ug-eyed鈥� fans (as Bob Prince would say) squeezed into Forbes Field, which had seating for only 34,249 of them.How the Pirates managed to accompany a crowd that was better than 10,000 overcapacity can hardly be imagined. Where did those without seats stand? How ...
