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The Olbermann File

I have been trying for a week now to sort out just how I feel about this Keith Olbermann matter and I keep coming back to one question:...

My Oh My…

Frankly, I’m getting tired of writing about old baseball guys leaving the game or dying. I’m just flat tired of it. And now, Niehaus. I...

“We Need to Listen…”

Noem, who defeated the incumbent Democrat last week, was pressed repeatedly on how she intended to keep her promises to reduce spending...

Accountability…Not So Much

Eight games into the season, the Cowboys tied the can to coach Wade Phillips. Someone had to be held accountable. This is the big time,...

Dewey Defeats Truman

November 2nd will be long remembered for “the shellacking,” as Barack Obama put it, that he and Democrats took in the mid-term elections....

Let the Recriminations Begin

In the cold, grey aftermath of the drubbing Democrats received on Tuesday, President Obama is too reserved, too buttoned down and too...

Wipe Out

If yesterday’s election in Idaho had been a Little League baseball game, it would have been called on account of the ten run rule....

A Green Place Around Home

Like most baseball fans, I gained my appreciation of the game from my dad. I’ve been thinking about him a lot lately what with a big...

Writer for Camelot

Before his health began to decline, Ted Sorensen wrote one of the great political memoirs of our time. He simply called it Counselor....

Why 2010 Isn’t 1934

In 1934 the unemployment rate in the United States was 21.7%, just two percent lower than it had been when Franklin Roosevelt entered the...

Why 2010 Isn’t 1934

In 1934 the unemployment rate in the United States was 21.7%, just two percent lower than it had been when Franklin Roosevelt entered the...

Political TV

Political junkies know the story of the famous ad man Tony Schwartz who filmed the adorable little girl pulling the petals off a daisy...

Second Acts

Am I the only one who remembers that Dick Morris, the sputtering, chubby “political analyst” that seems to be the all-purpose pundit on...

Money and Politics

Mark Alonzo Hanna was a Cleveland industrialist and U.S. Senator from Ohio at the turn of the 20th Century and, more importantly perhaps,...

Obama’s Wars

In May of this year, as Woodward tells it, months after the President’s national security team had coalesced around the current...

Senators Worth Remembering

The Third in a Series… If Reed Smoot, the Utah Republican who represented the Beehive State in the U.S. Senate for 30 years, is...

Juan Williams

I confess that I’m not at all sure how I feel about the sacking by National Public Radio (NPR) of long-time analyst and historian of the...

Clint Stennett

Clint Stennett, who died last week at age 54, was nothing if not authentic. He passed with flying colors the VFW – Bear Lake County Fair...

Shelby’s Folly

Jack Dempsey, the heavyweight champion of the world and one of the greatest personalities of that era (that’s him in the white trunks),...

The Automatic 3%

All the attention two weeks before the November 2nd gubernatorial election in Idaho has been focused on the two major party candidates,...

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