Ex-president’s life after office was model for how we should live Jimmy Carter may not have been the most successful president in our line of leaders. But he has set a high bar for ex-presidents. He showed that the legacies left behind aren’t defined solely by what they did during their one or two t...

Long odds didn’t bother Max Hirsch. Never mind that winning the Kentucky Derby is right up there with throwing a perfect game, a victory at The Masters or swatting a mosquito with a pencil. It’s difficult to do once and almost impossible to do twice. His horses won the Derby three times. Maximillian...

D.C. budget panic Why is it that there is always panic in D.C. as politicians try to pass a monumental budget in the last few days before the recess? The typical budget is well over a thousand pages long and no one has the time to read it all. Obviously, since this happens repeatedly, it is by desig...

We’ve gotten near the point where we see each other as enemies. Do you ever look at a roll of toilet paper and think, “someone put that on wrong.” The...

Editor’s Note: Eightyear- old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, and the response was printed as an unsigned editorial ...

It’s hard to believe it’s ready time to turn the page on the calendar to a new year. Where did the past year go? It seemed like just last week that th...