Phil Gramm Needs to Be Quiet Now

When you're safe and well-off, and there's money in the bank, there is a tendency to forget what it's like to have to struggle -- especially if you're not the one doing the struggling. Say, for instance, that...

Father Pfleger, The Sequel--This Time It's Personal

Midway through E.L. Doctorow's best-selling novel Ragtime, there is a scene in which Walker, a black piano player, enters the home of the upstate New York family he's accidentally met in the first decade of...

Vets For Freedom Here We Go Again

Haven't we been through this already for Pete's sake! With these groups that don't mention the name of the candidate and they get to raise as much money as they want and spend as much money as they want when...

Bubba Froths At the Mouth Again

Did Bill Clinton just attack McCain as unstable. Bill Clinton is pontificating on how well he knows Nelson Mandela at this Aspen Ideas Festival, in which Clinton's face looks lobster-red, and at one point he...

Oniontown the New Compton

ONIONTOWN HAS HAD IT. After another visit from out-of towners eager to mock the tiny community, state police investigators are saying, in effect, "Nonresidents, you don't have to go home, but you gotta get the...

How to Improve Your Writing in Ten Minutes

You can improve your writing. Does this sound impossible? Imagine what it could mean. All of us have to write at some time or other. What if there was a mathematical way to improve your writing? What follows...

GOP Uncle Tom Votes Obama to Counter Injustice