You have to wonder why Jerry Brown would want the job. California, among the biggest economies in the world, is flat broke; $20 billion –...

Major league baseball in Tucson ended yesterday with a routine ground out. Score it an Owners Choice. Tradition flies out to the...

It’s going to be a sad day at the ballpark today in Tucson, Arizona. Since 1947, a major league team has conducted spring training at...

Anyone who says they know with any degree of certainty the short and/or long-term political impacts of the health care/insurance reform...

Al Simpson, the former Republican Senator from Cody, Wyoming, is one of an increasingly rare breed in American public life. He actually...

What we now think of as the modern White House staff dates back to the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Before FDR – Woodrow Wilson,...

Elliot Richardson was the Attorney General of the United States when he resigned in 1973 rather than carry out an order he couldn’t agree...

Will Rogers famously said he belonged to no organized political party. He was a Democrat. The cowboy philosopher would find himself right...

Great piece in the Boston Globe today on why Massachusetts’ voters made the decisions they made recently; putting a Republican, Scott...

My father had a marvelous sense of humor and he would often joke about the little town where he grew up in western Nebraska. Dad would...

In 1935, Franklin Roosevelt’s chief political operative and campaign manager, Postmaster General James A. Farley, commissioned a public...

The Washington Post has a great piece today on Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus of Montana and his former top aide Jim...

It is a cliche to say it, but they don’t make ’em like former New Mexico Governor Bruce King any more. King died last week at the age of...

LDS Church Apostle Dallin Oaks gave a speech a while back at the church’s growing and impressive school at Rexburg – BYU Idaho – that...

When I noted a few weeks back that President Obama had made a good and interesting selection – former GOP Congressman Jim Leach of Iowa –...

There is a fundamental rule in politics – the first and most important rule, perhaps – that is ignored by any politician at considerable...

While I wait for the warmth of spring and the baseball fan’s certainty that opening day (148 days away by my count) brings all things new...

The late, great Commissioner of Baseball, Bart Giamatti, while serving as President of Yale, said: “All I ever wanted to be president of...

We are a two party nation and – with apologies to the 1840’s Whig Party – the party out of power always finds a way to claw back to...

The Republican candidate for governor in New Jersey is a big guy. Some might even say he’s, well, chunky. His opponent is alleging that...