Dear President Obama, As is the tradition, a departing President passes on personal pearls of wisdom to an incoming President, through an anguished, manic, handwritten, tear-stained letter. First of all, the cold faucet in the oval office bathroom is screwed, has too much pressure and without warning sprays water all up the bowl to soak [...]

In a great inauguration ceremony, the first African-American President made an outstanding speech, which was, this blogger thought, not likely to do anything to underplay the expectations the world has of him.

As usual, Christopher Hitchens puts together a superbly illustrated and argued case for the Senate of the United States to reject the awful Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State.  He begins with an extremely simple but devastating question: “Picture, if you will, Hillary Clinton facing a foreign-policy conundrum. With whom will she discuss it first [...]