Contributor Geoffrey Norman shares this story from his book Bouncing Back, about a group of POWs who survived the Vietnam War. This scene is told from the point of view of Al Stafford, another POW who flew, coincidentally, in the same squadron as McCain: VA-163, The Saints, a legendarily aggressive…
A barrel of crude oil was trading at around $48 at the end of last week. For a generous segment of the population, this is good news. Commuters will spend less on gas and have more to spend on, say, the things that Amazon Prime can deliver to their front doors. And, of course, Jeff Bezos will be…
Remember when Obama and others said we “couldn’t drill our way out” of an oil crisis? They were wrong.
He was, by any strict measure, not the best ever to play his game. That would be Jack Nicklaus or, maybe, Tiger Woods. Perhaps Ben Hogan. Or Bobby Jones. But you could certainly make the argument that Arnold Palmer was the greatest ever for the game. And it isn’t even close. No other golfer has…
He was, by any strict measure, not the best ever to play his game. That would be Jack Nicklaus or, maybe, Tiger Woods. Perhaps Ben Hogan. Or Bobby Jones. But you could certainly make the argument that Arnold Palmer was the greatest ever for the game. And it isn’t even close. No other golfer has…
What I needed, said my wife, was a cup of tea.
Pensacola
Pensacola
So here we are, once again, coming up on the first Saturday in May and "the most exciting two minutes in sports." That phrase is generally attributed to Grantland Rice but it is a paraphrase. He actually wrote, in 1935, that, "Those two minutes and a second or so of derby running carry more…
The great day has arrived, at last. And how have we ever managed to endure waiting to learn who will be selected in the first round of the National Football League's annual draft of college players? By 7:55 p.m. ET on Thursday, the tension will have become well nigh unbearable. And then, the…
The azaleas will not be in bloom for the Masters this year, spring having come early to Georgia. Nor will Arnold Palmer will be there on the first tee for the official opening of the tournament. Palmer, a presence at the Masters every year since 1955, died last September at the age of 87. He had…
On April 2, 1917, Woodrow Wilson became only the fourth president to ask Congress for a declaration of war. The others were James Madison, James K. Polk, and William McKinley. Those three wars cost a total of some 30,000 lives.
At the SHOT Show in Las Vegas a couple of years ago, I was talking to a man who knew his way around the world of firearms. He had been coming to the show every year and couldn’t remember, precisely, when he had last missed one.
Pensacola, Fla.
It was late and it had been a long day and lots of miles. It was a relief to pull up at the little Nebraska motel where I had a reservation. They were, however, expecting only one. I hadn’t said anything about the dog.
Eight hundred people showed up for the meeting. So many that it was necessary to use the school gymnasium instead of the more intimate and comfortable auditorium, as planned.
Before he teed it up on the first hole at Torrey Pines, Tiger Woods had not played serious, competitive, tournament golf for some 17 months. Five hundred and twenty-two days, to be precise. So nobody—probably least of all, Tiger—was certain just how it would go for him at the Farmers Insurance…
Eight hundred people showed up for the meeting. So many that it was necessary to use the school gymnasium instead of the more intimate and comfortable auditorium, as planned.
So what now for the 42nd president of the United States? Will Bill Clinton become, in the political world, the equivalent of those TV actors who had a top-rated series once upon a time and are now reduced to doing cameos on quiz shows? He has been around for so long that it is difficult to imagine…
So what now for the 42nd president of the United States? Will Bill Clinton become, in the political world, the equivalent of those TV actors who had a top-rated series once upon a time and are now reduced to doing cameos on quiz shows? He has been around for so long that it is difficult to imagine…
We ate black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day, the way you are supposed to in the South, where my wife and I were raised. We live in Vermont now, but we were told when we were kids to eat black-eyed peas for luck, and why take chances?
The New York Times headline says it all: "Assad's Lesson From Aleppo: Force Works, With Few Consequences."
The New York Times headline says it all: “Assad's Lesson From Aleppo: Force Works, With Few Consequences."
The election may be over, but the arguments and recriminations are still going strong. Which brings up an interesting point. You frequently hear people say, "Now is not the time for recriminations," and you think, "Well, sure. Okay. Let's wait a while. There's plenty of time." But you never hear…
The election may be over, but the arguments and recriminations are still going strong. Which brings up an interesting point. You frequently hear people say, “Now is not the time for recriminations," and you think, "Well, sure. Okay. Let's wait a while. There's plenty of time." But you never hear…
The world, and especially the nation, remembered Pearl Harbor last Wednesday. December 7 is, indeed, a day that has lived "in infamy." So the president and the man who will follow him into the White House both issued appropriate statements. A moving ceremony took place at the scene of the attack,…
The world, and especially the nation, remembered Pearl Harbor last Wednesday. December 7 is, indeed, a day that has lived “in infamy." So the president and the man who will follow him into the White House both issued appropriate statements. A moving ceremony took place at the scene of the attack,…
You have to figure out, after a tough loss, how you are going to handle it. It has to hurt, but it is probably better if you don't let it show and, instead, heed these lines from Yeats:
You have to figure out, after a tough loss, how you are going to handle it. It has to hurt, but it is probably better if you don’t let it show and, instead, heed these lines from Yeats:
You could drive from Key West to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and never cross a state carried by Hillary Clinton. Thirty-two hundred miles, from the subtropics to the high north; from the Gulf Stream to glacier country. So much country and almost all of it colored red on the political map.
You could drive from Key West to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and never cross a state carried by Hillary Clinton. Thirty-two hundred miles, from the subtropics to the high north; from the Gulf Stream to glacier country. So much country and almost all of it colored red on the political map.
The recriminations and agonies among the defeated have begun, and they are enough to break your heart. Hillary Clinton, who has been in the political world her entire adult life, is treated as a tragic figure by some. Jonathan Alter writes in the Daily Beast that
Dorset, Vt.
One more unforeseen consequence of Donald Trump's election victory: College students who have been spending too much time at binge drinking or television watching now have a handy excuse for not turning in that required paper on time or for being unprepared for that exam. They can blame it on the…
The National Football League continues to serve up boring games for its fans who have responded by not watching them. I received a number of responses to my recent article on this lamentable trend and the "action" in the days following publication did not show much promise that things would be…
He is 80 years old now. He was 31 when his A-4 was hit by a missile over Hanoi on October 26, 1967. You wonder if it occurred to John McCain, on the anniversary of that date, how improbable his life has been since then. How fortunate, in fact, he is to have had a life at all. He could have drowned…
The game wasn't much fun to watch. It was one of those blowouts with things pretty much settled long before the fourth quarter was over. There were the usual penalties, with the officials meeting to discuss whodunit and what to call. These provided opportunities for what are described by the…
The game wasn’t much fun to watch. It was one of those blowouts with things pretty much settled long before the fourth quarter was over. There were the usual penalties, with the officials meeting to discuss whodunit and what to call. These provided opportunities for what are described by the…
Americans are buying guns. A lot of guns. Gun sales set new records last month as, it seems, they have been doing almost every month since the election of Barack Obama as president. If you talk to people in the industry, they will tell you that Obama is the best salesman for guns in American…
Americans are buying guns. A lot of guns. Gun sales set new records last month as, it seems, they have been doing almost every month since the election of Barack Obama as president. If you talk to people in the industry, they will tell you that Obama is the best salesman for guns in American…
Variations on the same basic conversation are, no doubt, taking place all over the country: people asking, rhetorically, “How has it come to this?" Agonizing over what, if anything, can be done. Wondering, "Does it really have to be one of these two?" Sooner or later you come to the dead-end…
Putney, Vt.
Vice President Joe Biden once triumphantly declared that Iraq would one day be seen as the Obama administration's "greatest achievement." This was back when the plan was to bring all American troops homes. There was some talk of leaving a residual force of 10,000 or so, but this plan was never…
As Joel Gehrke of the Washington Examiner reports, the House has passed legislation that will "exempt former Obamacare enrollees from the individual mandate if they lose insurance due to the collapse of one of the federally-backed markets."
The Guardian reports that "Murders in the US rose 10.8% last year, the biggest single-year percentage jump since 1971, according to data released Monday by the FBI."
Obamacare appears to be circling the drain. All the things that were predicted are coming to pass. Copays and premiums are rising and insurers are bailing out of the market. Obamacare depended, always, on young, healthy people enrolling. They would need less care so their premiums could be used pay…
Arnold Palmer's golf swing was no languid thing of beauty. He hit the ball like he was mad at it, and in his follow-through he looked like he was hanging on for dear life. The swing was unique. Like the man.
Golf's Ryder Cup approaches. It begins the Tuesday after this weekend, in fact, and ends on Sunday. It is the greatest team competition in a sport not really known for team competition. Golf seems, in fact, like just about the most solitary sort of athletic pursuit: One competes against the course…
In 2013, after Syria's President Bashar al-Assad had unquestionably engaged in chemical warfare against his own citizens, President Obama delivered this warning:
The president was irritated, and it showed. This was back in June, and he was answering questions from the press, something he normally does with near-insouciance. So why was he peeved on this occasion? Well, there was all this talk of “populism."
There are times when it seems the entire objective of Washington and the political class is to shake down the rest of us for as much as can be had. Hillary Clinton would not be paid six figures for speaking if she were just an ordinary citizen on the lecture circuit. We've all heard her speak and…
There was a time when the Obama administration was being urged to leave a residual force in Iraq. The presence of U.S. troops would, the argument went, have a stabilizing effect. The force, according to its proponents, would number somewhere around 10,000. This, of course, didn't happen. The…
Washington went into one of its periodic hysterias recently when it was reported that the CEO of a pharmaceutical company that had been gouging the public was the daughter of a U.S. senator. Not that there is anything wrong with that. No laws broken and it was just business, more or less, as usual.
Washington went into one of its periodic hysterias recently when it was reported that the CEO of a pharmaceutical company that had been gouging the public was the daughter of a U.S. senator. Not that there is anything wrong with that. No laws broken and it was just business, more or less, as usual.
There is big news in the world of sports media. Try to remain calm, but, well, Skip Bayless has moved from ESPN to Fox Sports 1. The first episode of his new show—called Undisputed—ran on September 6, and it was hard to restrain one's emotions in the face of such a big development. Now, instead of…
It is said that timing is everything, and it may even be so. It is certainly true that the timing of J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy has been perfect: This is the political season of white lower-class discontent, not to say despair, and this is the essential material of Vance's book. It is also his…
It is said that timing is everything, and it may even be so. It is certainly true that the timing of J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy has been perfect: This is the political season of white lower-class discontent, not to say despair, and this is the essential material of Vance's book. It is also his…
Janet Yellen has given her speech and her words, as parsed by CNN/Money, indicate that, "a rate hike this year is still on the table."
The players in this election season are, it seems, not interested in talking about the deficit. Too much of a downer. Still, when the giddy days and nights of campaigning are done and the cold grey dawn of governing breaks, someone is going to have to face the facts. Namely, that spending is…
People with certain kinds of allergies carry the device with them. Always. It means the difference between, say, a bee sting being merely a painful nuisance and death from anaphylactic shock. So the market for what is called an "EpiPen" is pretty much guaranteed. If you are someone with one of…
It is national news, reported with an urgency bordering on hysterical when
In the Wall Street Journal, a physician tells us that
It was delightful, as odysseys go, and I wouldn't mind doing it again . . . and again.
The day after he was shot—four times, at close range—George Wallace won two presidential primaries. He survived the bullets, but one had clipped his spinal cord, so for the rest of his life, he would need a wheelchair to get around. Even so, he ran for president again, four years later in 1976, but…
The festival of Philadelphia celebrated the wonderful present and the even more fantastic future and the festivities went on well into the night. Then came morning and a bucket of cold water from the Commerce Department.
So in this time of populist resentment and political gridlock comes a man to deliver us. His name is Evan Bayh and he is from Indiana … sort of.
He was just 36 years old when he gave what was, according to many historians, the greatest political speech in American history. Certainly it was a success in making him not merely famous but also the presidential candidate of the Democratic party. Youth was not the only apparent handicap he needed…
Before this year's string of tournaments began, fans of professional golf were talking about the arrival of three "young guns." And it was excited talk—as golf talk goes. It had been some time since the game had the kind of rivalry at the top that these three promised. The prospect of Rory McIlroy,…
It was Sunday, a month before Election Day 1932, and the Roosevelts were having a guest to lunch at their Hyde Park estate. When Eleanor Roosevelt greeted him at the door, the guest was dressed in a plaid suit that could politely be described as “loud." The suit was complemented by a pink tie and a…
Some disputes simply cannot be resolved by rational debate but must be settled in the field, and by blood. Alabama and Auburn people can, for instance, argue 364 days of the year about which “program" is superior. Then, on the 365th, all the calls to Paul Finebaum's radio show will be forgotten and…
Tim Duncan retired from professional basketball this week. This was no diva departure as we have become accustomed to in big-time sports, especially basketball. Duncan played hard until the final whistle the way he always did, and then he announced his retirement and included this in a letter of…
Bernie Sanders officially ended his improbable campaign to be the Democratic party's presidential nominee Tuesday. He did so with visible reluctance, which is both understandable and odd. He came close, which makes losing even harder. But he was never much of a Democrat to begin with. He had made a…
Coming into the park from any direction, you pass through vast, old-growth forests. At the lower altitudes, the trees will be mostly Ponderosa pine, transitioning to lodgepole and then to mountain hemlock and red fir as you climb to higher altitudes. These stands of imposingly large trees are…
President Obama wanted to get something off his chest Wednesday and went off on what he later conceded was "a rant" about just who is—and is not—a populist.
There was always something wrong about saying Buddy Ryan coached defense. The units that he sent onto the field may not have been in possession of the football, but there was nothing defensive about them. They were the aggressors. They didn't stop offenses; they routed them. Destroyed them.…
Great Britain has voted to leave the EU and that may, or may not, be a good thing. Too soon to tell, as they say. Unless, that is, you are part of the elite media or the establishment left in which case, you know exactly. And these people, of course, are always right about these things.
The Republicans will be holding their convention in Cleveland in less than a month. One would think that the party would want to do whatever it takes to make a good impression upon the host city, especially since Ohio is one of those battleground states. One sure way not to make a good impression…
Nicholas Confessore and Rachel Shorey write in the New York Times that,
Dustin Johnson won the U.S. Open on Sunday, and he did it in defiance of his own history in the big tournaments and the pedantry of the people whose job it is to enforce the rules. They might have been medieval scholars debating the number of angels able to dance on the head of a pin.
The sign at the trailhead warns hikers that they are entering bear country. Which causes one to think, "Well, of course it is." It would be impossible to imagine this country without bears—both grizzlies and the lesser, but still-formidable black bear. Nor could you imagine this country without…
It would have been a magnificent sight a century ago, the kind that fills one with awe and dread. A fleet of great battleships, in which a nation had invested a great deal of its wealth and virtually all of its trust, making steam, weighing anchor, and putting to sea. They were leaving Scapa Flow…
The ranger had organized a little briefing after a woman asked him, nervously, about the chances that she and her companion, while on the hike they had planned, might, you know, run into . . . a bear.
The part of Vermont that is called “the Northeast Kingdom" includes three counties and fewer than 70,000 people and does not really live up to its name. It is undeniably beautiful to look at but equally hard to live in. The familiar woes of New England's small towns and farming communities—poverty,…
If you have not ever seen it, you will be told by anyone who has that there is no way you can prepare yourself, that when you first gaze upon it, it is impossible not to be stunned by its glory. You may have seen photographs and films, read the literature, and imagined it in your mind. Still. . .…
When he was 13, but more man than boy, Andrew Jackson got his first taste of war, helping his mother tend to the casualties after the Battle of Waxhaws. The May 1780 battle became, in legend, a massacre of defenseless colonials by British redcoats under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Banastre…
Desperately needing a win in the New York primary, Hillary Clinton is looking to exploit any vulnerability that she can find in the Bernie Sanders machine. So, she is going after him on guns. First, for voting wrong on holding manufacturers of firearms liable when their products are used in the…
"Oh wow," a voice up ahead on the trail called, "look at that. A perfect view of the Altar of Sacrifice."
There is something hard, cold, and brutal about the structure. It looks like a concrete airplane hangar and rising above it is what is called the “Lantern of the Dead." The shape suggests, appropriately, an artillery shell.
Las Vegas
The name, you think when you first lay eyes upon the place, says it all. The wide, shimmering flat that is streaked with white that you know without being told is salt. The hard, angular mountains with no sign of vegetation growing on their slopes. The washed out colors—reds, browns, copper. The…
Manchester, N.H. -- Crossing from Vermont into New Hampshire, you get a feel for what is driving the improbable Bernie Sanders campaign. The two states are separated by the Connecticut River valley, where the American industrial revolution could be said to have begun. The river supplied power for…
"The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met a lonely girl in Central Park and achieved with her a sweet and natural relationship, as they…
In 1775, Fort Ticonderoga was known as the "Gibraltar of the New World." So when Ethan Allen— who was never one to think small — learned of the unpleasantness at Lexington and Concord, he proposed to muster his troops, the Green Mountain Boys, at the tavern in Bennington that was more or less their…
Gallup reports that
Bloomberg reports that
In the National Football League, it is the year of the orthopod. Football, the cognoscenti like to say, is a game of injuries, but this year, it sometimes seems as though that's all that it is. That, and the blown call, anyway.
CNN is reporting:
Reuters reports that:
The Washington Post is treating seriously Senator Harry Reid's claim that "the current Senate was 'the most unproductive Senate in the history of the country, and there are facts and figures to show that.'"
Crude trades below below $40. Copper has "sunk as low as around $4,440 in late November, the lowest in some six and a half years." Larry Summers is warning in the Washington Post that:
December 7, 1941 was, as President Roosevelt said a day later when he asked Congress for a declaration of war, "A date which will live in infamy." HIs speech lasted seven minutes. The attack united the American people who had been bitterly divided on the matter of entering the war that was…
Or, the choice of Time Magazine readers anyway. Seems that Bernie Sanders, who at this time last year was a marginal figure in American politics, "has topped Hillary Clinton as the people's choice in Time magazine's annual Person of the Year vote."
Golfers have a hard time explaining the appeal of their game to those who do not play. And in fact, golfers sometimes have a hard time accounting for their passion even to themselves. The old quip about how a round of golf is a “good walk spoiled” seems to stick with a lot of people. But buried in…
The VA set out to send a stern disciplinary message to some scammers in the higher levels of its bureaucracy but, well you know, things happen. As Kellie Lunney of Government Executive reports:
It seems that:
As reported by The Hill, Bernie Sanders is:
Coming up on his final year in office, the president’s mind is doubtless on his legacy. More, perhaps, than other presidents had been when they were running out the string. Obama is something of a literary man, after all, having published a best-selling memoir before his election. He is accustomed…
Bernie Sanders gave a big speech at Georgetown University today and used the opportunity to make clear a few things:
As Kellie Lunney of Government Executive writes, a new watchdog report reveals that
Neil MacFarquhar of the New York Times writes that “after hedging for 17 days,” the Russians have confirmed what everyone suspected. Namely that the Metrojet 9268 that crashed in the Sinai 18 days ago was:
It wasn’t much of a debate. This might have been because of the scheduling. Everybody ought to have something better to do on Saturday night than argue over the correct level of the minimum wage. Also, the atrocity in Paris hung over the proceedings, making the words of the candidates seem even…
The last non-farms payroll report pretty much sealed the deal in the minds of Fed watchers everywhere. We had, at last, achieved the desired degree of inflation. Rates would be going up. Probably in December.
From Kate Davidson of the Wall Street Journal, we learn of one more reason to hope for a return to four percent growth and generally good economic times. Seems that:
You quit or we don’t play. That is essentially what dozens of players on the University of Missouri football team told the president of the university. They had lost four straight games, five of their last six, including a 31-13 home loss to Mississippi State on Saturday night. But they won this…
It has been a tough few weeks for Bernie Sanders. Before the debate, his numbers were soaring, his crowds were growing, and there was a palpable and almost arrogant sense of confidence among his supporters and inside his organization where they talked magnanimously about considering Hillary…
Reuters is reporting:
The U.S. Navy is stretched thin, especially when it comes to aircraft carriers and as Richard Sisk writes at Military.com:
The Pentagon is sending several F-15s to Turkey, as David Axe writes at the Daily Beast. Their mission will not be to conduct strikes against targets on the ground. They are designed for “air-to-air combat” which in this case means:
The same government that warned you off whole milk and urged you to load up on carbs may now be moving to protect you from the snares of fantasy sports wagering. And the people who worship at the temple of government believe this is the just and proper thing to do. Presumably they will put the same…
As Jordan Fabian of The Hill reports:
In its handling of health care for veterans, the VA’s ineptitude and corruption have been widely exposed and condemned. Though, of late, Hillary Clinton has been saying that it wasn’t as bad as all that. In her view, the real problem is not long wait times covered up by falsified records which, in…
According to the conventional, Beltway wisdom, Bernie Sanders let Hillary Clinton off the hook when he declined to attack on the matter of her e-mails in the recent debate among Democratic contenders. Perhaps. But one wonders how many friends that would have made him among his party’s core voters…
CNN, which has been on the story of malfeasance and incompetence at the VA for a while now, reports:
It has long been good sport to make fun of the government. Ronald Reagan did it with a fine, almost deft touch. “The nine most terrifying words in the English language,” he would tell an audience, “are I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”
Bernie Sanders has never met a corrupt, inefficient, obsolete government agency or initiative he didn’t like. The only thing he finds objectionable is that they aren’t being given enough taxpayer money. Earlier in the week, during the Las Vegas debate, he bragged on his efforts to get the…
Hanna Kozlowska at Quartz writes that:
In Zimbabwe, forty elephants have been slaughtered. Not by trophy hunters using elegant and expensive rifles. The animals were poisoned with cyanide by poachers who were after the ivory. And, as Michael E. Miller of the Washington Post reports, Zimbabwe’s “environment minister Oppah Muchinguri,…
U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Samantha Power was talking tough, yesterday. As Nick Gass of Politico reports, in a speech before “Fortune's Most Powerful Women summit in Washington.”
Senator Sanders had been on a roll—until tonight. He had been playing a tent revival preacher in which he got himself, and his audiences of the faithful, worked up about the evil that has kept them in chains and from which he intends to free them before going on to use those same chains to whip up…
Greg Mankiw, professor of economics at Harvard, has posed an interesting question on his blog.
Bernie Sanders has been noted, above all, for his consistency. He doesn’t change his mind. Ever. Except, maybe, a little bit on gun control. And this inflexibility is considered a virtue among politicians. Especially in this season, given his opposition.
Russian warplanes have been conducting strike in Syria. As have U.S. fighter-bombers. And, lest we forget, France has been doing a little bombing there as well. As Reuters reports:
So far in this campaign, Jeb Bush hasn’t said anything particularly memorable (if, that is, memory serves) but now he has come out with something pithy and quotable and certain to please one half the electorate and infuriate the other.
Barbara Starr of CNN is reporting:
Anticipating the big presidential debate on CNN, candidate Bernie Sanders is doing … well, not much of anything, to get ready. Sanders, as Gabriel Debenedetti of Politico writes:
As Reuters is reporting:
Yeganeh Torbati of Reuters reports:
The AP reports that:
Mismanaging a baseball team will do it. As James Wagner reports in the Washington Post:
How happy in their jobs are government workers? Well, the sovereign answer to that question would be: “Who cares?” They have steady work and, for most of them, it is all indoors with no heavy lifting. And they practically have to commit a felony to get fired.
Pick Eddie Lacy. That was the advice of at least one expert back in the summer. Not a single play of the regular NFL season had been run, but it was already a busy time for those who play fantasy football and the gurus who advise them. “Lacy’s mix of stability and upside over a full season” is…
Secret Service agents are famously willing to take it – as in taking a bullet for the President or anyone else for whom they are providing security. They are also, it seems, willing to dish it out. Though not quite so lethally. Just in the nasty, bureaucratic, secretive ways of Washington. From…
Well, so bad that even the stock market didn’t like it and it usually welcomes news that restrains the Fed from raising interest rates. But this morning, the NYSE opened over 200 points in the red.
Impossible to imagine anyone predicting this six months ago, but as Matea Gold and John Wagner of the Washington Post report
Recent polling by Gallup shows that
Though I am an Apple user—phone and laptop—and happy with both, the tepid response to the latest Apple dog and pony show left me feeling a bit of schadenfreude. The digital revolution is pushing other technologies into the grave, and like a lot of people, I mourn that—in the way, probably, that an…
After all the media coverage and the judicial back and forth, the New England Patriots returned to the field Thursday night and won a football game. Tom Brady, who had been banned for throwing softballs, then re-instated by a federal judge (we pay those guys for that?), threw four…
Hillary Clinton, speaking at the Brookings Institution Wednesday morning, took some hard jabs at the Obama administration, while expressing her support for the Iran nuclear deal. Among other things, Clinton said that the U.S. was
In a Labor Day speech, Hillary Clinton promised that, when she is president:
The eagerly anticipated jobs report for August has come in and it is a disappointment … sort of. Expectations were for an increase of 217,000 jobs. The number was … 173,000. But
Hal Dardick and Bill Ruthhart of the Chicago Tribune report that
Here’s a recent Washington Post headline:
He was the hope and the future of the franchise, the toast of the city, just three years ago. The Redskins had themselves a rookie quarterback who would return them to glory. And he did actually get them into the playoffs in his rookie season.
Illinois will happily take your money and sell you a lottery ticket but, as the AP reports,
Ken Thomas and Lisa Lerer at the AP report that
The Boston Red Sox are nearing the end of a woeful season, running last in their division, thirteen-and-a-half out of first, leaving the taste of wormwood and gall in the mouth of every member of Red Sox nation.
Hillary Clinton, according to Bloomberg,
Marina Koren at Government Executive writes that the Food & Drug Administration recently “sent a warning letter to the makers of Just Mayo, a vegan mayonnaise spread."
President Obama once made promises about changing the “tone” in Washington. But when the spirit moves him, he can get down with the condescending name-calling, though he can’t compete with Trump in that league. (But who could?)
It is with great pleasure that we invite you to the Convocation heralding the opening of the American Museum of Tort Law on Saturday, September 26, 2015, in Winsted, Connecticut. It will be held at the nearby auditorium of The Gilbert School, 200 Williams Avenue, Winsted, Connecticut, from 1:30 to…
The Yankees’s C.C. Sabathia is not having a stellar season. With a 4-9 record and a 5.24 ERA he could be forgiven for feeling a sense of frustration. Even one serious enough to get him into a near brawl with fans in, of all places, Toronto.
The Washington Nationals’s winning streak ended Thursday night in Colorado. After two games. But when recent performance includes a six game losing streak that helped the team fall from first place, by 4 and a half games in their division, to trailing the Mets by four, then you take what you can…
As Mario Trujillo at The Hill writes,
As Megan R. Wilson of The Hill writes
Kaveh Waddell of National Journal reports that
Former Obama hand Dan Pfeiffer does some player evaluations on the political scene and comes up with this regarding Hillary Clinton:
The blogger Angry Staff Officer writes at taskandpurpose.com that
Peter Sullivan of The Hill reports that
Mark Hensch of The Hill writes that
If he were a race horse, then up-to-now the smart play would have been to bet him to show. On six occasions, Jason Day had finished among the top five in the big golf tournaments known as the "majors." But never first. He seemed to lack that urge to run out ahead of the pack, where the view is…
It had been a long time since I’d been to a big league ballgame and I was looking forward to this one. My brother had bought the tickets, and going by the stadium schematic, it looked like we had good seats. Grandstand on the third base line, not too far up. We had lucked out on the schedule, too.…
According to CNN:
How much do Americans love football? Enough that more of them will tune in to a meaningless exhibition game in August than viewed the Stanley Cup finals. As the Chicago Sun Times reports, last week's
That, supposedly, is the first question asked in Pentagon and White House briefings during time of crisis. Now, as Kristina Wong of The Hill writes,
Dispatches from the front tell of Bernie Sanders surging into the lead in the New Hampshire polls. From the time he began what was then viewed as a quixotic campaign for the Democratic party’s presidential nomination, Sanders’s chances have been laughed off and his successes explained away. He is,…
The boss of the Environmental Protection Agency, Gina McCarthy is upset about the fouling of the Animas River in Colorado last week and says, as Tomothy Cama of The Hill reports, that
SB Nation reports that New York Jets quarterback
Frank Gifford was the glamor face of professional football before the world learned that there was something glamorous about the sport. Before it became a national obsession. Before there were Monday night games and Super Bowls. Back when star players had off-season jobs because playing in the…
“We have already cut defense … about 30 percent over the last 10 years, and we’re still at war. We’re actively involved on multiple continents in real combat operations. We should not be drastically reducing our troop levels.” That, as Bradford Richardson of The Hill reports, is the position taken…
It happened after World War II and it happened after Vietnam. Now, after years of repeated deployments, the Army, as Robert H. Scales writes the U.S. Army is breaking down.
ISIS strives to create a new Caliphate. It is the fundamental reason for its existence. But the vision does not stop there. As USA Today reports:
The Army and the Navy cannot do what they once could and might soon be required to do again. They don’t have enough soldiers and enough ships. Even reduced to the lowest force levels in years, the Army, as USA Today reports:
Marcus Weisgerber at Defense One writes that:
Of the making of books, there is no end. Thus spake the prophet, and he may have had books about the American Civil War in mind. They come too fast for the amateur to keep up, but one does try. So when I saw, a couple of months ago, that James McPherson was out with a new collection called The War…
Jonathan Easley of The Hill reports that
Bernie Becker of The Hill reports that:
The president, as Jordan Fabian of The Hill reports, said yesterday that:
Technically, we are told, it is simply “the Open.” Or, perhaps, “The Open.” Maybe even “The Open.”
Among the Affordable Care Act’s many features is a tax on high dollar health insurance coverage that is part of an individual’s employment compensation. The thinking is that someone who is self-employed or doesn’t have employer provided coverage pays for health insurance with after-tax dollars so…
More than 20 million Americans had their privacy violated in the recent hack. This according to a story in the New York Times, which reports that:
First time claims for unemployment spiked last week. As Bloomberg reports:
Rebecca Shabad of The Hill reports:
At a total cost of more than a trillion dollars, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is the most expensive weapons program in history. The U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps — not to mention the air forces and navies of more than a dozen U.S. allies — are counting on the Lockheed Martin plane to…
Robert Pear of the New York Times reports that:
The vote in Greece is running 60 percent “No” on the terms of its creditors. The same experts who had been predicting a close vote will now explain why it was a runaway in favor of … well, who knows. But count on the usual confident voices to sort it all out.
One hundred and fifty two years ago, at 2:00 p.m., General Longstreet, who could not bring himself to speak the order, nodded to General Pickett that his division could begin the assault up Cemetery Ridge The South’s greatest – and most peculiarly southern – novelist wrote of how that moment lives.…
That is the guidance from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs in what will likely be his last message to the troops and commanders serving under him.
Bloomberg reports that:
One reads of the crisis in Greece. And the one much closer to home in Puerto Rico. The crisis, that is, that inevitably comes after spending too much and taking on more debt than it is possible even to service, much less pay down. One thinks of how unfortunate it is for the people who will now…
The elite media types have been in bed with the elite national Democratic party types for so long that one hardly bothers to note it any longer. Still, it is a little jarring when the Hillary Clinton e-mails reveal this kind of panting sycophancy
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