For the U.S. to start annual major July 4 military parades in Washington just doesn't seem to capture what America is all about. The shining city on the hill is not a militaristic image. But on the other hand, what's another $12 million out of a federal budget that's already so busted it's not funny? Published February 10, 2018
So far it's clear only that Scott Wagner wants to be a Donald Trump, not that he is one. Published February 8, 2018
There are times when even the brightest-looking leaves on the Ivy League's vines say the damnedest things. Take Yale University alumna, Asha Rangappa. Published February 4, 2018
Unbeknown to President Trump, two of the RNC's top officials are throwing each other under the rickshaw over a trip one of them took to Beijing. Published February 1, 2018
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has already won gold in next month's Olympics. Published January 24, 2018
NBC has mustered the courage to show national anthem kneelers, if there are any, at the Feb. 4 Super Bowl in Minneapolis. Published January 17, 2018
Most people aren't race-baiters, haters or supremacists, including those nodding their heads in agreement with what President Trump said in a private meeting to Democratic and Republican lawmakers. Published January 16, 2018
Just caught Fox News' Harris Faulkner on her "Outnumbered Overtime" show. I've decided she really does pose a threat to the disrepute in which so many Americans hold much of the news media. Published January 12, 2018
Why do undisputed titans of stage and screen -- think Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep -- turn into mental midgets when they talk about President Trump? Published January 11, 2018
A Trump charm and, yes, intelligence lit up television screens all over America on Tuesday afternoon. Freed from the restraints and cautions of Bannonism, the president suddenly seems to soar like an eagle. Published January 9, 2018
The new boss set out to drain the swamp of its stinky people. Published January 9, 2018
Praising the same press that President Trump deplores, Oprah Winfrey, the darling of much of America, looked and sounded Sunday night like President Trump's Democratic opponent in the 2020 general election. Published January 8, 2018
There were 17 separate agencies and bureaus doing intelligence gathering, analysis, field ops of one kind or another, civilian and military at the time. There still are. To the inexpert mind, half that number might seem excessive. Published January 7, 2018
Only a Never Trumper or a reflexive Trump-bashing Democrat is happy with the hellstorm that broke on Wednesday with the publication of excerpts from "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House." Published January 4, 2018
Some high-ranking Republicans told me they briefly considered snubbing a French Embassy Christmas party Wednesday after Amb. Gerard Araud tweeted -- then quickly deleted - an accurate but ill-timed observation about U.S. history. Published December 13, 2017
Which side are you on, the presumption of innocence or a boss' right to fire for sexual harassment, without furnishing proof? Published December 7, 2017
If you don't see danger in The Associated Press' relentless negative coverage of President Trump, you're not looking hard enough. Published November 29, 2017
If President Trump gets what he's after in meeting with President Xi Jinping in Beijing, it will be a triumph of almost superhuman Trumpian persuasiveness. Published November 7, 2017
As the images and sounds (mostly whining) on cable news and the Facebook/Twitter posts attest, there are people -- probably some very nice people -- who think of themselves as principled conservatives and who irately defend Sen. Jeff Flake, Arizona Republican, as one of them. Published October 26, 2017
You may think some on the left have no shame, but you have to admit they do have transparency. Here's "Turn: Washington's Spies" actress Heather Lind. In an Instagram, she said former President George H.W. Bush, 93, "sexually assaulted" her by touching her derriere, during a photo-op in Houston, while he was in the wheelchair to which he has been confined for the last five years. Published October 26, 2017
