It was a bit macabre to see Bill Clinton holding court with White House reporters last week at his old hangout, right down the hall from the Oval Office.  The current president was at his side, looking very much like an emcee who has introduced the main speaker for the evening and then forgotten […]

            Ten years ago, the presidential election of 2000 was finally decided by a 5 to 4 decision from the United States Supreme Court.  At the time I thought the result was an outrage.  I still do.              I wrote a series of three columns about the election on three successive weeks starting ten years […]

In response to my “Grumpy Ed” post (earlier this month), I received a response from a reader who gently took me to task for my half-empty view of life generally and of the United States in particular.  I replied to him that I would love to have a pair of his rose-colored glasses. The reader […]

            With another weak showing by the administration leading to the compromise reached earlier this week, the debate on the Bush tax cuts has been resolved for the present, but only for another two years.             And so, with an eye to the renewal of the battle in 2012 (right in the middle of the […]