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Ethical Standards

I hope, and believe, that the late, great former Commissioner of Baseball smiles in a peaceful place where everyone is surrounded by...

Playing the Hand

First the admissions: Democrats – thank Nancy Pelosi as well as the president for this – completely lost control of any coherent message...

The Last Hero

He still has – and likely will for a long time have – the legitimate record for most home runs in a career. An astounding 755 and he...

Politics of the Oligarchs

The intersection of money and politics, both at the fringes and at the center of our democracy, has often led to full-blown scandal....

Fighting to Innovate

Tesla, in challenging the long-established American way of selling new cars, is (big surprise) hitting decades-old speed bumps as it...

Heart and Soul

Brewer, an often erratic politician who once championed most causes of the far right of her party, took her time in doing it, but she...

Understanding the Mind of Other Men

In Federalist 78, Hamilton, writing as Publius, discussed several issues related to the judicial branch of the government that had been...

If I Had a Hammer

The New York Post – as ridiculous as a newspaper in those days as it remains today – offered the headline: “Dangerous Minstrel Nabbed...

The Doper at Third

This is really all you need to know about Alex Rodriguez and his creams and shots and lozenges: Major League baseball accepted the word...

I Am Not A Bully

There is a truism in politics that the worst wounds are those that are self inflicted. The next most damaging wounds are those that are...

So Long to The Stick

The 49ers football team will play the last game at The Stick tonight and one more old ballpark will go the way of the wrecking ball. Most...

The Start of Something Big

That standoff helped precipitate the recent change in Senate rules that eliminates the filibuster as a tool of the minority to thwart a...

A Plane as a Budget Lesson

Washington Sen. Patty Murray and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, the chairs of the Congressional budget committees, continue talking in an...

For the People

Put a man on the moon in the decade of the 1960’s and return him safely to Earth – no problem. Create a Peace Corps and send idealistic...

It’s Inevitable

The remarkable political turn of fortune for the same sex marriage issue has been stunning, particularly when you consider that as...

Pleasures of the Ear

For baseball fans who have been glued to the tube during this remarkably engaging World Series, I should mention that Castiglione is one...

High Popalorum, Low Popahirum

One of my Long favorites: “The Democratic Party and the Republican Party were just like the old patent medicine drummer that used to come...

The Speaker of the Whole House

Tom Foley’s death this week at 84 reminds us that the leader of the House of Representatives was once a courtly, civil, decent guy who,...

Go Big or Go Home

The president might start by remembering that there are three things in politics that can be enormously powerful, but are almost always...

The Age of Unreason

“If there is that degree of disruption, that lack of certainty, that lack of trust in the US signature, it would mean massive disruption...

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