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John Heinz died seventeen years ago today. Tragically and tragically before time. The issues he cared about ---and characteristically burrowed in on--- were seen as esoteric, and even irrelevant, by many at the time. But today we can see that the reform of Social...

In case you already had dinner plans and/or your TiVo was on the blink, here's what you missed on last night's Daily Show. And here's where you can get your hot off the presses copy of Bill's updated Safire's Political Dictionary.(1) For Republicans, the hardcover...

Our friend CW4 Harry Holzman was kind enough to share never seen photos of President Nixon during his July 1969 visit with troops under his command in South Vietnam. Here is the President in a Jeep while reviewing the 1st ID: Here is CW4 Holzman waiting for the...

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In "Hearts and Minds, Again" ---his Wonder Land column in today's The Wall Street Journal---Daniel Henninger raises some provocative points. Mr. Henninger writes about the importance ---and the importance of watching--- the 1974 Oscar winner Hearts and Minds: The...

The Washington Post reached new heights of populist aesthetic dudgeon over the architecture of the just-opened National Stadium. In today's paper, the snarky Style sectionistas took on the question of naming rights.   The Redskins play at FedEx Field, the Wizards...

The South Side Inn is at the corner of State and Main Streets in my hometown, New Albany, Indiana, directly across from the town's oldest building - the house constructed by the three Scribner brothers when they arrived in 1813 from (logically enough) Albany, NY,...

Reverend Jeremiah Wright has at least temporarily retired the phrase "chickens coming home to roost" but that's the phrase that comes to mind reading Dan Calabrese's column about Hillary Clinton's performance as a staff attorney on the House Judiciary Committee's...

The friends seemed uncharacteristically preoccupied as they idly chatted before ordering their usual Eggs Benedict. When the plates appeared ---literally--- on the table, even though the sight was familiar it was impossible not to admire the artistry involved. The...

William G. Hyland, former deputy national security advisor to President Ford and former editor of Foreign Affairs magazine, died of an aortic aneurysm March 25 at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Virginia. He was 79. Hyland, an expert on U.S.-Soviet relations during the...