The year 2003 is almost history. Maybe that’s a good thing. In his hilarious book The Devil’s Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce defined “history” as “an account, mostl...
Elbert Hubbard--a writer killed aboard the Lusitania in 1915--is said to have written some 7 million words in his lifetime. Here are 17 of my favorite: “The rea...
Yesterday, President Bush embarked upon an extended trip to Latin America, which The Economist recently described as “a region he has neglected throughout much ...
“When a man tells me he’s going to put all his cards on the table, I always look up his sleeve,” said Leslie Hore-Belisha, the British secretary of state for wa...
I was hoping to score a laugh. The laughs came and also loud applause when I recently suggested that the western parts of Canada and the United States form the...
Get ready for silly season. As Congress prepares to debate the Central American Free Trade Agreement this spring, you’re going to detect an unusual amount of ho...
