The NYT reports: Yet Mr. Gehry then went on to present changes that mainly affect the memorial’s bas-relief sculptures — changing them to th...
Obama is giving them all a medal — the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Speaking for freedom, Bob's got an old song called "I Shall B...
Eisenhower? The last guy to be elected president without having won statewide or national office was Dwight D. Eisenhower... De Gaulle? ... ...
John S.D. Eisenhower has a NYT op-ed opining that presidential sons should not be permitted to serve in combat duty. He recounts his own ex...
For LBJ, Ford, Ike, JFK, and Dukakis. I love the variation in style, which, in each case, belongs so clearly to its decade. I don't agre...
According to Gerald Ford in old interviews The Grand Rapids Press is now free to release. Ford said Reagan, who challenged him unsuccessful...
Here 's a front-page NYT piece on Justice Kennedy, whose nomination to the Court was sold to conservatives as "Bork without the bea...
Here I go again. As before, I'll keep all my commentary in one post and use numbered paragraphs to indicate the updates. 1. A Baptist ch...
I don't really want to watch the phony display that is a political party convention, but others in my household have turned it on, as I ...
Yes, I'm back from lunch, and I've read the Times. And I've got eight observations: 1. Go ahead and hunt the protected-species ...
