Yes, those were the days Archie and Edith Bunker sang about and the man who led us from market crash and credit crunch into full blown dep...

But, oh! for Absalom,-- For his estranged, misguided Absalom,-- -Nathaniel Parker Willis- What ...

Bob Greene made me laugh this morning, writing about the magazine ad for a Hermès suitcase priced at $27,100. He thought at first it was...

Nothing is true, all things are permitted - Hassan i Sabah - No, I didn't watch the State of the Union Address Wednesday and I haven...

Only a year into Ronald Reagan's first term, some pundits were calling him a one-term president. Only hours into Bill Clinton's firs...

"and how much more falsity is still necessary to me that I may therewith always reassure myself regarding the luxury of my truth."...

After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in a...

Rush Limbaugh may get his wish and what used to be a viable, if flawed democracy may just disappear into the kind of thing that used to go o...

I picked up the clip below at A Silent Cacophony , one of my regular reads. Looking for Joe the Plumber in the crowd, John the Candidate te...

by expatbrian (cross posted from World Gone Mad ) I've never been so remiss before about posting to this blog. But alas, my excuse is ...

I ndications are that a majority of Americans still oppose anything like a bailout for financial institutions. An unscientific CNN poll toda...