Aug 20,2007
Bob Novak’s One True Love
Bob Novak's chronicle of Beltway history is really the love story of a journalist and his beat.
Aug 03,2007
Notes on the Scene: What a Way to Start a Week
Not a Lazy Sunday for Bush President Bush signed legislation Sunday that would allow the executive branch greater power to conduct wiretaps on international calls. Such wiretaps would not have to be...
Jul 30,2007
How to Stop Cars From Backing Over Kids
According to a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimate, each year at least 183 people — mostly children and the elderly — die when a motor vehicle backs-over them....
Jul 19,2007
Ron Paul: Libertarian Bigot?
Is Ron Paul the savior of libertarians? That’s what many are claiming about the Texas Republican who ran on the Libertarian ticket for President in 1988. Andrew Sullivan, who styles...
Jul 08,2007
Everyone’s a moralist: But only some people realize it
A colleague and friend of mine, we’ll call him Daniel, lives in one of Washington D.C.’s more marginal neighborhoods. He told me about walking home one afternoon and being offered...
Jul 08,2007
Fiction: The Secrets of Parents
For three days after he was fired, Francis sat in the living room, despondent, watching TV. Then he started playing the game.