I am feeling my inadequacies this month. I am not only not running for President, but everyone else in town is flacking a book- something so ubiquitous that it is quite amazing. I assume there is another angle to it- there is with everything here in The Swamp, after all. But darn it, I have […]

I handed off the remote to the flatscreen shortly after 0900 to enable more stimulating programming. Not that this isn’t. I mean, this is like far out. The witnesses who are testifying at the big hearing were still showing up, and the seats of the Members were still unoccupied. Since the guys coming up to […]

My pal Bronco’s lovely wife attended a Wounded Warrior fundraiser the other night. Centerpiece of the decoration was a tattered American flag that has seen the best and the worst of times. Here is the descriptive account of what this tattered but proud fabric has seen: The words made me think of the people that […]

There is a new movie out about the most significant naval engagement of the last century. Perhaps all the centuries. Reviews say the cinematographic treatment is extraordinary, and retired Admiral Sam Cox, Director of the Navy’s History and Heritage Center, was on-scene to nudge the script back to events that actually happened. We had it […]

Things are so loony up here that I felt a little information shocked. Or maybe it was the time change last weekend. This one wiped me out for some reason, so the news from Mexico really made me sit up when I first heard it.. Last week, the authorities rounded up the son of drug […]