The old comic Rodney Dangerfield’s signature line – “I can’t get no respect” – can no longer realistically be applied to the big time...

It is the birthday of the poet and Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg born January 6, 1878 in Galesburg, Illinois. Twice winner of the...

I received a very gracious note yesterday from former Idaho Secretary of State Pete T. Cenarrusa thanking me for my post on his long...

His record of holding elected office continually for 52 years is not likely to be bested and the standard he established for running a...

Dallek’s op-ed piece this week in the Wall Street Journal is a fitting wrap-up of this year in presidential politics and a must read....

I don’t fly, thank the Lord, as much as George Clooney’s character in the funny and engaging new film Up In The Air. Clooney’s road...

It is the time of year for lists of the “best of” of 2009, a year that may go down in memory as not leaving all that much to recommend...

Truth be told, the celebration of Christmas has long been a work in progress – sorry Bill O’Reilly – and always the subject of some...

Next to operating from the Oval Office, the front row desk on the majority side of the aisle in the United States Senate is arguably the...

As the New Year unfolds, Idaho voters may experience something they haven’t often witnessed lately – an interesting gubernatorial...

Since 1994, the Idaho Democratic Party has been living the truth of the old saying about insanity. The definition of insanity, it is...

More proof this week of the fundamental changes taking place in the newspaper business. David Carr, a media commentator for The New York...

His latest effort, the speech to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, was a moment on the world stage that was ripe with irony. The prize for...

A fine series of articles focused on a smarter approach to wild land fire management is rolling out this week in the Arizona Daily Star....

It has been correctly said that in politics your friends die and your enemies accumulate. This is perhaps particularly true for a...

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...

I have a clear memory of an old basketball coach from high school who preached a simple strategy. Coach would say when someone was trying...

Trust me – it’s special. With George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Bill Murray bringing the fuzzy puppets to life, you find that you’re...

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

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born on this day in 1874. The world has not been the same since. In any one of a half dozen...