The moment will soon arrive: the centenary anniversary of the silencing of the guns at World War One. There is supposed to be more silence. You know what I mean- two minutes of silence observed at the Cenotaph in Central London’s Whitehall at eleven o’clock sharp, the symbolic moment that the Great War came to […]

07 January 2001 Boondoggle Gentle Readers, The composition of Congress has been much on our minds this last several months. It made me think of gentler days up on The Hill, and we thought it was bare-knuckles way back when. Not so much any more. We who worked the political side of Department business traveled […]

Traditionally, Halloween was a big holiday here in The Swamp when the Willow was in it’s prime. It was a special place with special people, and costumes were de rigeur. Despite the two wars then in progress back then, there was mirth and merriness and costumes around the majestic bar. Dare I say there was […]

So, what is the October Surprise? the Caravan behind the one in progress? The unexploded bombs in the mailboxes of prominent progressives? The Reichstag fire scenario is possible, since none of the devices went off, and only a novice would not understand what mail screening has happened since 9/11 and the anthrax attacks. I can’t […]