Like most Americans, I waited to fill out my taxes until the last minute.  I'm happy to say that I got the 1040 completed and into the post office - which was a complete nightmare by the way - on time.  Standing there got me thinking about what this exercise will feel like a year from now.  The reality is it all comes down to whi more...

For a guy who was supposedly so concerned about what other people thought of him, Bill Clinton doesn't seem to be too concerned with how he'll be remembered.   Clinton's tendency to bow to opinion polling while he was in the Oval Office is both well known and well documented.  So it's a little curious that Bill persists as the c more...

The story you are about to read is true.  The names have been thinly disguised to protect the guilty [cue the Dragnet theme...].  This story concerns a 60 year old woman named Billary.  Billary is from an upper middle class suburb of Chicago, the product of a solid family and some excellent schools, including Wellesley College and Ya more...

The end is near for Hillary Clinton and the now famous "bitter" comment made by Barack Obama last week proves it.   This is exactly what Hillary Clinton has been waiting for, a moment in which she could find just a hairline fracture in Barack Obama's armor in order to wedge herself in and try to pry it open with one last burst of e more...

I knew that my observations on McCain's POW experience, as it relates to him as a man, was going to garner attention. In fact, as a writer, I've come to appreciate that any response--positive or negative-- is better than apathy. 
 
It means that someone was listening. But it doesn't always mean that he or she heard you. < more...