Month: November 2008

You have to be really old to see Henry Waxman, from the freshman class of 1974, as a challenger to the Old Vanguard, but that is how the Wall Street Journal frames the battle over the chair of the House Energy & Commerce...

With two senior Obama aides leaking the news (reported at Huffington Post) that President-elect Obama plans to name Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as his secretary of State shortly after Thanksgiving, speculations about...

by Jeff Huber Last spring my dog Shady and I were walking across the bridge over Pleasure House Creek when I heard a disturbance in the water.  I looked down and saw a Great Blue Heron breaking the water’s surface....

This is terrible news: Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) — U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed while giving a speech in Washington tonight and was taken to a hospital. Mukasey, 67, began slurring his words, slumped at the...