Month: December 2010

I know that for Obama’s critics the secret is that “he lead” or that he “show leadership” or that he “knock some heads” or whatever, but I think the roll call on the Bernie Sanders...

Near the end of his life, David Halberstam returned to the first great story of his journalistic career and wrote about the young leaders of the Nashville civil rights movement in “The Children”.  It’s an...

But that does not seem to matter, not for her and not for a growing number of people in their 50s and 60s who desperately want or need to work to pay for retirement and who are starting to worry that they may be discarded from...

Don’t say I didn’t warn you about jackassholery: Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) will force readings of both a nuclear arms treaty and $1.1 trillion spending bill that could eat up hours of the remaining lame-duck Congress....

I don’t know. He’s a hometown boy around here but in my crowd Jon Bon Jovi has always been kind of a joke. It’s not that we have any ill-will towards the guy. He’s a very nice man who does a lot to give...