I’m no Yankee fan and Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) said it for all time in A League of Their Own, “there’s no crying in baseball,” but every...

One of the great strategies in politics is to take your opponent’s greatest strength and turn that advantage  into a liability. It’s not...

Jamie Moyer, the 49 year old left-hander who is now throwing his junk for the Colorado Rockies, recently became the oldest pitcher to...

On the downhill side of the Gilded Age in American political and business life – that would have been in the late 1800’s – progressive...

Given today’s persistent gridlock in Congress, it’s easy to forget that the United States Senate was once a place where bipartisan...

There is an old truism in politics that holds that one can go from hero to zero just like that – meaning quick, very quick. The reverse...

I just bought a nifty coffee mug emblazoned with the five words – Keep Calm and Carry On. (It seemed like the right kind of mantra at...

There is a fascinating piece planned for publication Sunday, and already online, in The New York Times on legendary Lyndon Johnson...

Bad luck like stupid comments seems to come in threes. Ozzie Guillen, the mouth-running, currently suspended manager of the Miami Marlins...

This is my 500th blog posting since starting The Johnson Post in July 2009. It’s been fun and educational and has kept me, more or less,...

Mad Men Attitudes and 21st Century Politics By every measure it seems clear that Ann Romney has the smarts, style and personal qualities...

April 6, 1862 – 150 years ago today – Americans came to understand that their Civil War would be not be over easily or soon. Edward...

They are playing golf at Augusta today and that is occasion enough to connect the ancient game with the season of the azaleas and a...

One Tough Job Now that the pundits have finally agreed that Mitt Romney is going to be the Republican presidential nominee, we can devote...

There is an old and respected approach to judicial review of controversial and essentially political issues that holds that judges should...

The steady re-examination and reinterpretation of our 36th president is one of the most interesting developments in the shifting world of...

More than 20 years ago I was on the way home from a trip to Washington, D.C. with Clancy Standridge, who was for many years the...

Typically in politics the most painful wounds are self-inflicted. Candidates shoot themselves in the foot and hobble around for days...

For most of the 20th Century North Dakota claimed the unenviable distinction of being the one state in the nation that regularly...

Here is hoping those of you who read here with some regularity will endulge me a very personal piece today. My brother died Monday, much...