My lanyard wearing mom was born on this day in 1922. I miss her every day. The Lanyard by Billy Collins The other day I was ricocheting...

As if you need another reason to dislike the serial Ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff, now it turns out the swindler was a New York Mets fan....

The protesters in the streets of Cairo could most likely care less about American domestic political debate. They have bigger issues....

Here’s a fascinating subtext to the upcoming Republican presidential primary: Two successful, politically astute, handsome, wealthy,...

The Utah state budget is far from flush. The Salt Lake Tribune laments, as legislators do, a $313 million “structural deficit” in Utah....

California’s new – old – governor, Jerry Brown, delivered his State of State address to the legislature last night. Lots of gloom and...

“The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life; the children, those who are in the...

One of the better bits of analysis of the huge report is from former Bush speechwriter David Frum. Frum writes: “The report…argues that...

Boston has had 50 inches of snow this winter. Do you think Red Sox fans are anxious for spring? I’m still nursing the hurt over the...

Now that Idaho’s statewide elected officials have taken the oath of office for the next four years, we can safely start the speculation...

As Idaho and a half dozen other states prepare legislation to attempt to “nullify” the federal health care law, including apparently...

Legislatures are in session, the president is poised to deliver the State of the Union and we just marked the 50th anniversary of JFK’s...

The Kennedy Presidential Library has launched a fabulous new website – http://www.jfk50.org/ – to mark the 50th anniversary of the...

It is Martin Luther King, Jr, Day, a good day to remember Dr. King’s remarkable impact on the evolution of American notions about civil...

When I saw the story that Idaho’s State School Superintendent Tom Luna had pulled a pop history quiz on lawmakers on the legislature’s...

My favorite presidential historian, Robert Dallek, as well as anyone has, caught the essence of last night’s remarkable speech in Tucson...

“Anger, hatred, bigotry” – the headline in the Sydney, Australia Morning Herald. “A disturbing story about American political culture” –...

Get to the bottom indeed. We all tend to measure the impact of big events by the closeness of personal connection. For me, this one is...

The new Pew Research Center report dealing with where Americans turn for their daily news fix shows, not surprisingly, that the...

Accountability, at least most of the time, is sure and swift in the United States military. Just ask Captain Owen Honors, who has been...