Month: March 2014

Hello again painting fans. This week I will be continuing with the painting of the 1954 Hudson ruin. The photo that I will be using is seen directly below. I will be using my usual acrylics on an 8×10 gallery-wrapped...

Prof. Jackson Lears has an excellent review of Doris Kearns Goodwin’s new book in The New Republic. The book, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, is a treatment of...

Jackson Lears’ review of Doris Kearns Goodwin’s new book about Teddy Roosevelt, William Taft, and the Progressive Era is harsh and thrilling at the same time. This is history we need to be studying. And it looks like...

Unlike the man in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall who famously forgot his mantra, the Republican Party drones on about small businesses being the engine of growth with no hint that they will ever forget their lines and go off...

Rumors that Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is secretly gay are persistent, but they normally are not given voice outside of some rowdy political blogs. Yet, every once in a while, someone down in South Carolina...