Whenever a really big issue consumes Washington … Syria is such an issue … a certain number of people seem to succumb to the need to say something really stupid. In their desperation to be involved, to be relevant, they melt down. Professor Alan Dershowitz of Harvard Law School gave an interview to an online

Ruthie Blum writes a column for Sheldon Adelson's online daily, Israel Hayom. Ms. Blum sees the world as divided into two groups: those who love Israel enough; and those who don't. To qualify for the first group, the bar is high. It requires a level of obsequiousness towards all things Israel to which many are

In the world of pro golf, one makes a living at regular tour events. One makes history at the four majors. Tiger has won 14 majors in his career … 4 short of the all-time record of 18 held by Jack Nicklaus. Phil has won 5 … more than any other active player. Tiger hasn't

Malala Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai earned her right to address the United Nations the hard way. Malala was shot in the face by the Taliban in Pakistan's Swat Valley last October. She, and her father Ziauddin, had been activists for education for girls in Swat, and had incurred the wrath of the Taliban. The day she

"It's a nothingburger". That's how Chris Matthews described the Right's effort to find a scandal in the IRS where there isn't one. I agree. Indeed, when the dust settles, this matter will be more of a problem for the Right than the Left. Let's look at the essentials. The Law. Since 1913, organizations that "engage

Mr. President, let me say upfront, I don't think any of the present areas of concern … the IRS, Benghazi, Justice Department leak investigations … rise to the level of bona-fide "scandals". They are individually, and in toto, small potatoes compared to the incompetent bungling of Bush-Cheney that allowed us to get hit on 9/11

Our Republican friends think they have President Obama between a rock and a hard place on the issues of Benghazi, the IRS, and the Justice Department review of some phone records of a number of Associated Press reporters. In my opinion, there is less there than meets the eye. Let's look at these issues one

There's nothing quite like a tragedy such as Boston to bring out the political opportunists. Mix in Muslim perpetrators with looming crises in Iran, Syria, and Lebanon and the uber patriots are reaching Glenn Beck levels of hyperventilation in their race to the bottom. Our friends on the right who have made careers out of

When Ronald Reagan was running for President, one of his most dependable applause lines went like this:  "Government is not the solution to the problem, government is the problem." As soon as Reagan became President, however, he expanded the size of government and increased the deficit. When George W. Bush became President, he moved to

Cardinal Sean Patrick O'Malley of Boston is one of the 115 Cardinal Electors who will choose the next Pope. The winner must receive a two-thirds majority … 77 votes. It's almost a certainty, but not a necessity, that the Cardinal Electors will choose one of their own. I'm a Catholic. Probably not the best one