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Mark Shields / Politics

The Gun Lobby and States Rights

According to the Census Bureau, in the year 2020, there will be 214,000 living Americans over the age of 100 and, according to Washington wise-man Mark Russell, all of them will have valid State of Florida driver's licenses.

That line makes fun ...

Honeymoon for a Pope

In politics, maybe even in life, perception frequently becomes reality. If enough people see you as a winner, then you will be treated like a winner, which means that your calls, even to important strangers whom you have never met, are promptly ...

A War With No Victors

"History is written by the victors," as Winston Churchill wrote. But the United States 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq was indeed a war with no victors.

We know the American numbers: 4,488 killed; 31,965 wounded and, because there are truly ...

Maybe Not the Sharpest Knife in the Drawer

Miraculously, a single government policy initiative has united Washington, D.C. Elected officials who had been either locking horns or crossing swords over drugs, drones or deficits suddenly found themselves on the same side, thus reminding us of ...

Am I Being Grumpy?

Let me stipulate at the outset: I do not qualify for any youth movement. In fact, I first voted in the 1960 presidential contest between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon. No conscientious bartender, if I were trying to buy a round of alcoholic ...