In 2010, the Tea Party, that seemingly incoherent, non-descript movement that many scoffed at when it first appeared on the national scene a year earlier, achieved a form of legitimacy not realized by many of its predecessors.  In electing members and sympathizers to the House of Representatives, the Senate, and to many state legislatures, […]

            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 […]