I watched the second half of Frontline last night, Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story. Thanks to the wonder of DVR technology, I’ll watch the front half tonight. Lee Atwater’s life is a modern Faust morality play. As a political king-maker, he rose from obscurity to national prominence by doing anything and everything to ensure [...]
Read the full post >>Congratulations to the new president, you’ve got a lot of work ahead of you and, goodness knows, it’s not going to be easy.
Many observers and pundits wondered morbidly what might happen if Obama lost after having the comfortable lead in just about all the polls leading up to election night. Thankfully, we don’t have to [...]
If there was any doubt that George Orwell got it right when he said, “who controls the past controls the future”, this could be the clincher.
A 350-year-old cavalry battle has become the latest irritant between Russia and its neighbor Ukraine after Russia’s foreign ministry on Tuesday accused Kiev of using the clash to foment anti-Russian [...]
