Let's get this straight: Edward J. Snowden surrenders his well-paid job as a government contractor and, quite possibly, his freedom by publicly confirming how aggressively the National Security Agency, without obtaining any court warrants, ...
We who live in Washington are admittedly a little defensive about this city we call home. Be honest -- you would be, too, if the nation's elected leaders won their high offices by repeatedly running campaigns that bellowed how much they, and all ...
The late Rep. Morris K. "Mo" Udall, D-Ariz., a gentle giant with laughter in his soul and steel in his spine, was the runner-up for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 1976.
As an admirer and campaign worker for "Mo" Udall in that ...
Dan Jenkins, a sportswriter of rare wit, once gave us the Ten Stages of Drunkenness, which include these separate points on the road to inebriation: "Witty and Charming," "Rich and Powerful," "Clairvoyant," "Patriotic," followed by "Crank Up the ...
Once again, graduation time is upon us. By some iron rule, every graduation must have a graduation speaker, whose role has been compared to that of the corpse at a great Irish wake: His presence is deemed necessary for the event to be take place, ...
As generations of schoolchildren were told, Jamestown in 1607 was the first permanent English settlement on what would become the United States. What we learned this week is that those English settlers, confronted by the most severe drought in ...
