Swamped by coverage of the presidential race was some heartening news out of California: Voters there appear to have taken away their state legislators' power to draw their own districts. We say "a...
Clinton and Romney win Nevada
Mitt Romney has been declared the winner of the Republican Nevada caucus, with less than one percent of precincts reporting. At this time, Rudy Giuliani is in sixth place, behind both Ron Paul and...
Good and Bad News About Iran
There is a lot of good news in the latest intelligence assessment about Iran. Tehran, we are now told, halted its secret nuclear weapons program in 2003, which means that President Bush has absolu...
My generation, a lively bunch best known as the baby boomers, grew-up in the shadow of some remarkable men and women. The veterans of World War II, like my dad Ray Perry, withstood the Great Depres...
“APPEAL FOR Wounded Men,” proclaimed the New York Times headline. “An appeal to citizens to open their homes on Thanksgiving Day to the 15,000 wounded soldiers in the city was sent out yesterday…. ...
FEW THINGS STIR the nostalgia of our lives as the days we spent in our schools decades ago. Most of us remember with clarity the children we knew as classmates and the teachers who taught us. And ...
It wasn't so long ago (1996) that Roger Clemens left the Red Sox because the team wouldn't give him a four-year contract. Three years ago, Pedro Martinez did the same, in keeping with the reputed t...