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The book “Eat, Pray, Love” is all the rage, again. After its run on bestseller lists a few years back, it is set to be a major movie success, starring Julia Roberts. It makes one wonder why, and whether or not it tells a story which makes us feel that …

Seventy-seven years after the end of prohibition the battle of the “wets” versus the “drys” is alive and well in those states considering ending their government monopolies over the sale of liquor. Though not as colorful as the epic battles between Al Capone and Elliot Ness, the underlining debate continues …

I’m sure it’s happened to you, as it did to me, again, last night: Some starry-eyed collegian told me that Christopher Columbus shouldn’t be celebrated because of his treatment of native Americans. Oh, and surprise, surprise, she was armed with nothing more than her university professor’s insistence. If Mark Twain …

Editor’s note: Winston Churchill was born on this date in 1874. “Do not let us speak of darker days: let us speak rather of sterner days.” Thus spoke Winston Churchill to the students of Harrow School on October 29, 1941. The British prime minister visited the school, and made this …

Here we go again. As the president stumps — yet again — for his health care plan today, it is worth looking back at the events of the last several weeks. During this time, we’ve seen episodes of high political theater that have clarified the issues and cast into stark …

At the close of today’s election in Massachusetts, we’ll know just what kind of cat Barack Obama really is. The seat up for grabs in the Bay State belonged to the “liberal lion” Ted Kennedy. After his inauguration last year, Barack Obama looked like a lion himself, with many of …

The Supreme Court’s recent decision to allow corporations and unions to directly support political candidates through advertising has unleashed a frenzy of speculation about the mass infusion of cash into political races beginning with the midterm elections of 2010. I think the reality may be a little less frenzied than …

As the old saying goes, some of my best friends are Catholic and Jewish. Still, I find it weird that with the retirement of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, a country founded by Protestants whose population is today sixty percent Protestant, may very well be ruled by a Supreme …

David Letterman, like the great Albert King blues song, seems to have been “born under a bad sign.” Between the aggressive stalkers and the house-painter kidnappers and the phony wives, the TV funny man’s off-camera life seems dominated by damage control. That’s why it wasn’t really that surprising that Thursday …

Polls give us a snapshot of what’s on Americans’ minds at any given moment. So, I’m astounded by the moment we find ourselves in. As you sit reading this, former Vice President Cheney is on a two month surge of popularity. President Barack Obama, on the other hand, is doing …