For all of Mitt Romney's talk of what he would do on Day One in the White House -- bomb Iran or was it Planned Parenthood? -- there's just as good a chance he would be tacking up two pictures on the wall. One would be of George H.W. Bush and the ...

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has a new kind of crime statistic. It is not the astoundingly low number of murders committed in his fair city -- 471 in 2009 vs. about 2,000 per year in the 1980s -- but murders not committed in the last ...

Barack Obama has read and been influenced by Robert A. Caro's classic biography of Robert Moses, "The Power Broker." From the evidence, it is far from clear, though, that the president has read Caro's other books, the latest being the fourth ...

The United States seems to have two plans to deal with what is fast becoming a civil war in Syria. Plan A calls for the full implementation of the U.N. cease-fire and the complete cooperation of Bashar al-Assad, a dictator who would, at the risk ...

About a month ago the European Union, showing it will not be trifled with, barred Bashar al-Assad's wife, Asma, and other women in his immediate family from shopping for luxury goods in Europe. For some reason, going cold turkey on Dior, Armani ...

Among the attributes I most envy in a public man (or woman) is the ability to lie. If that ability is coupled with no sense of humor, you have the sort of man who can be a successful football coach, a CEO or, when you come right down to it, a ...