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The food on the Senate side of the Capitol apparently leaves a lot to be desired; but the ironies in this story are utterly delicious. Last week, in a late-night voice vote, the Senate agreed to privatize the operation of its food service, a decision that would, for...

Slate has put together an entertaining and already nostalgia-laden eight minute mini history of the just-ended contest for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. It skirts but averts being too clever by half, and will recall some already-forgotten events that...

The undercard has been cleaned out, the preliminary rounds are all over, and everyone will now start focusing on the main event. This represents both the good news and the bad news for Senator Obama. It's good news because he has won his party's nomination and can...

Here on the east coast there is still a short time left of the fortieth anniversary of Robert Kennedy's assassination on 6 June 1968. Earlier this evening I was listening to C-SPAN radio's excellent omnibus program: Press Secretary Frank Mankiewicz' brief announcement...

While the question of what women, in general, want may still be up in the air, this afternoon a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll sheds considerable light on what Democratic women want. In a survey of Democratic voters, 60% of the women polled stated they hoped...

Barack Obama’s choice to involve Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the late president, as part of a three-person team leading his search for a running mate is another not-so-subtle example of his very real desire to be seen as the present-day embodiment of Camelot. It may...

Yesterday the Washington Post reviewed the revival of Russell Lees' two-character play Nixon's Nixon which is running at the Round House Theatre in Bethesda, Maryland, until June 22.  (A previous post at TNN linked to an earlier Post article about this production.)...

As John Taylor pointed out a couple of days ago, Obama's victory speech had an odd passage:  I honor [McCain’s] service, and I respect his many accomplishments, even if he chooses to deny mine. It was reminiscent of another speech, from 1962.  The speaker had just...

My favorite detail from last night's still apparently anti-climactic events in the Obama-Clinton combat is this one from today's New York Post: He tried to call her twice following the speech - but got her voicemail. She finally returned the call as his plane was...

In the current issue of the American Spectator (you'll have to go to a bookstore or newsstand, or subscribe to the magazine, to read it, since the print version's contents are not online) Fox News correspondent James Rosen (whose very well-researched and highly...