Month: January 2012

From today’s David Brooks column I learned the following: * Great presidents “tend to be emotionally secure” — except for, say, Lincoln, who was clinically depressed. * A great president is likely to have...

I can’t say with any certainty that the U.S. has had no involvement in or foreknowledge of the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists. As I see it, the source of these attacks is probably Israel. It’s much less...

Do you think the Republican base is put-off by what Mitt Romney did at Bain Capital? Steve M. sure doesn’t.

This is one dumb criminal. A man accused of stealing a police cruiser while handcuffed in northwest Indiana, then using the police radio to ask where to find the car’s cigarette lighter, has turned himself in after two...

Welcome to Friday Foto Flogging, a place to share your photos and photography news. We were inspired by the folks at European Tribune who post a regular Friday Photoblog series to try the same on this side of the virtual...