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....then the Orlando Sentinel has an article that may tickle your fancy - about Bill and Sue Wills, a Maryland team of husband-and-wife actors who, for years, have been presenting two-person shows in which they portray a President and First Lady. So far they've...

The absence of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy last week from the funeral of his sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, followed by the death on Tuesday morning of columnist Robert Novak, who was diagnosed with brain cancer not long after the lawmaker fell ill from the same cause,...

From 1993 until 2001, few figures were more prominent among the critics of the Administration then in charge than Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial Watch, who, during those years, launched eighteen civil suits against the Clinton White House, and was often to be...

President Obama and his family enjoyed and praised the beauty of Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon during their recent whirlwind western tour.  And Douglas Brinkley has written a doorstopper celebrating TR's role in creating our National Parks. But it was RN's Legacy...

Commentators such as Thomas Edsall, Charles Cooper and Michael Crowley have blamed protests against Obamacare on a GOP effort to stir up "angry white males."  It all goes back to Richard Nixon's "Southern Strategy," they say.  The main problem with such arguments is...

Unguided Missal? Mass composer Leonard Bernstein in 1971. Last week on The New Yorker’s website, music critic Alex Ross wrote three articles based on newly released Freedom of Information Act-obtained government documents regarding inquiries into...

Director-writer-producer John Hughes died on 6 August while taking a walk in New York City.  He was 59. Ben Stein calls John Hughes "the poet of human exaltation, the poet of human happiness" --- and it's impossible to imagine a more infectiously joyous cinematic...

A little over a year ago, when Rick Perlstein published his mammoth study of "the American berserk" - the original subtitle of Nixonland - in the years between 1965 and 1972, he concluded his 748-page saga of heated hardhats and howling hippies (or was it the other...

In this morning's Washington Post, Paul Begala, one of the architects of Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign and later a major White House advisor, contributes an op-ed. In it he argues that, although supporters of an expansive health-care policy (single-payer or otherwise)...

An article by Richard J. Cross III in yesterday's Baltimore Sun deserves quotation in full. Mr. Cross IDs himself somewhat in the piece; more recently he was press secretary and speechwriter for former Maryland Governor Bob Ehrlich. In February, America celebrated the...