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History tells us…
With the polls being what they are, no one can say for sure who will win this year’s presidential election. It’s been said, though, that the approval rating of the sitting president, regardless of...
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Second term curse?
Now that President Obama has secured re-election, speculation is rampant about who will be on his team going forward and what his policy priorities will be. Many pundits also are pointing out that as...
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Second term curse? Part 2
Back on Nov. 12, I wrote about what’s become known in discussions of American history as the “second-term curse.” That refers to the pattern of re-elected presidents finding themselves confronting a...
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When the president met the pope
There is little doubt that the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI is the news story of the week. After all, for centuries, conventional wisdom had held that popes serve until their deaths. Benedict is...
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A little mercy
Is it just me, or do others feel as I do? I’d love to know. Late last week, scrambling for serviceable opinion columns, I consigned George Will — who normally plays a starring role on the editorial...
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Expiration date needed
President Obama recently told CBS News that even if the 22nd Amendment weren’t on the books, he wouldn’t be running for a third four-year term this year. The 22nd Amendment, adopted in 1951, limits...
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Compare, contrast
Today, we offer a comparison-and-contrast exercise — illustrated by a photo, above, of a black family arriving in Chicago from the South, nearly a century ago, to find work and opportunity. First,...
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Mad money
Edward Rothstein shares many of my attitudes about the politically correct transformation of U.S. currency in this Wall Street Journal op-ed. Money quote: (Treasury Secretary Jack) Lew said that since...
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