If Thompson’s name came up in some sort of free-association game, he would be a genuine stumper: Thompson and what? There is no Thompson Act, Thompson Compromise, Thompson Hearing, Thompson Speech or Thompson Anything that comes to mind. No living man can call himself a Thompsonite. Instead, Thompson came and went from the Senate as […]

Automatically Discharged - no good deed goes unpunished in the service of your country. 
A COUPLE-A years back, a friend e-mailed to say her stepson had been injured in Iraq. Badly. A bomb tore up a foot, and the kid lost some hearing in one ear. We emailed back-and-forth for a few days about details and prognoses […]

He’s cashing in on 9/11, working with Karl Rove’s henchmen and in cahoots with a Swift Boat-style attack on Hillary. Will Rudy Giuliani be Bush III?
Rudy giuliani is a true American hero, and we know this because he does all the things we expect of heroes these days — like make $16 million a […]

I Lewis “Scooter” Libby will be handed down his fate today - will it be 3 years or less. Here’s a great article on the process and the continued mantra on Libby’s innocence and arrogance and how it may well backfire on him today.
 Having aggressively argued that there was neither crime, nor misconduct, how do […]