Some Politics Is More Local Than Others

In Sunday’s Boston Herald, the inimitable Howie Carr —the longtime bane of Kennedy and scourge of Kerry— examined the odds and the consequences of Joe Kennedy running for his uncle’s Senate seat. Apparently the former congressman has renounced...

Words To Live By

At the hybrid of online newspaper and blog that is www.examiner.com, Rudolf Okonkwo, urges President Obama to “be steadfast” when confronting his opponents, and, to illustrate that point, quotes another President: What I want you always remember is Richard...

The Nixon Wit

In tomorrow’s Washington Post Magazine, Gene Weingarten devotes his weekly humor column to a departed politician – but not Sen. Ted Kennedy.  Instead, Weingarten spends several hundred words examining a long-forgotten book titled The Wit & Humor Of...