Stan the Man, maybe the most talented nice guy to ever lace up a pair of spikes, and The Duke of Earl, one of the most competitive and...

John Boehner survived his re-election as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday – barely – but if history is any guide...

Today no analysis – historic or otherwise – just seven rules collected over 35 years of reporting on politics, working on two statewide...

Dirty Harry probably didn’t know it, but his empty chair routine dates back at least to 1924 when a young, very upstart and very liberal...

But that notion has become so 1972. The underlying narrative of the just completed GOP Convention was the need to “humanize” Mitt Romney....

By 1932 McAdoo had assembled a remarkable political resume. He married well – Woodrow Wilson’s daughter – and served as his...

FOX News contributor Juan Williams, hardly an apologist for national Democrats, noted in a opinion column in The Hill today that the flat...

Corruption at the Justice Department When U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, as now seems likely, is held in contempt of Congress in the...

The (Almost) Case for Unilateral Action In September 1940, just in front of the election that would make Franklin Roosevelt the first and...

Not Guilty as Sin So the Rocket walks and baseball’s long twilight struggle with performance enhancing drugs slips slowly, slowly away,...

A little over one hundred years ago J. Pierpont Morgan ran much of the world’s business from an elegant office at 23 Wall Street in New...

Mark Twain is reported to have said, “It isn’t so astonishing the things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that...

I never saw Rogers Hornsby play baseball – he quit playing in 1937 – but I’m still pretty sure he was among the best right-handed hitters...

I’m no Yankee fan and Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) said it for all time in A League of Their Own, “there’s no crying in baseball,” but every...

Jamie Moyer, the 49 year old left-hander who is now throwing his junk for the Colorado Rockies, recently became the oldest pitcher to...

There is a fascinating piece planned for publication Sunday, and already online, in The New York Times on legendary Lyndon Johnson...

Bad luck like stupid comments seems to come in threes. Ozzie Guillen, the mouth-running, currently suspended manager of the Miami Marlins...

One Tough Job Now that the pundits have finally agreed that Mitt Romney is going to be the Republican presidential nominee, we can devote...

Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas– that’s him in the photo when he was at the height of his influence – still holds the record as the...

If you recognize the fellow in the photo as the 1924 Democratic candidate for President of the United States you are a trivia master....