To the surprise of just about everyone, Kamala Harris has had a remarkably good two weeks (whether her selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz marks the end of that honeymoon or an extension of it remains to be seen). Democrats, of course, have been pleasantly surprised. Prior to President Joe ...

In 1962, composer Irving Berlin debuted his final musical, “Mr. President.” The show has a silly little song that contains the lyric “the Secret Service makes me nervous.” I thought of that song after the real Secret Service failed to protect former President Donald Trump at a rally ...

I’ve lost a little bit of weight lately, and when people ask how, I tell them it’s easy. You just cut out dairy, gluten and processed sugar, and severely limit caffeine and alcohol. Just like magic, you’ll almost instantly lose all pleasure in eating -- life, even! -- and each meal ...

(Last) Monday night’s “White Dudes for Harris” Zoom call, with some 90,000 registered to participate, was surely a landmark in political history. Nearly 200 years ago, when the Democratic Party was being formed to elect and reelect Andrew Jackson, the entire American electorate, with ...

“L’audace, l’audace, toujours l’audace.” So says George C. Scott’s Patton in the eponymous movie when his comrades want another day’s rest during the Sicilian campaign. No one is going to mistake Kamala Harris for Gen. Patton, or even George C. Scott, but her latest tack on ...

Sometime before he withdrew from the presidential race, President Joe Biden secretly reaffirmed his own self-willed and self-created authority to kill persons in other countries, so long as the CIA and its military counterparts have “near certainty” that the target of the homicide is a ...