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The Wrong Animal

FDR had Fala.  RN had Checkers. Anthony Weiner has a couple of cats, to which he referred with a term that has a double meaning.  Bad move:  one study suggests that dog people outnumber cat people by nearly four to one. Note to the Congressman from The Great Survivor:...

Lawrence Eagleburger 1930-2011

Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger passed away today. He was 80. Eagleburger joined the foreign service in 1957 following service in the Army and completion of graduate school. He went on to serve on the National Council under President Nixon, as...

Hubert Humphrey’s Hundredth Birthday

Last Friday marked a century since the birth in South Dakota of a son to a small-town druggist named Hubert Horatio Humphrey. That boy, who received the same sonorous appelation, grew up to be mayor of Minneapolis (he moved to the Land of a Thousand Lakes for college...