The tabloids are full of stories trumpeting Christie's "Slam Dunk" victory over Horndog husband Peter Cook.

But who is thinking about the welfare of Jack, 13, and Sailor, 10?

The eventual price paid by these young children --- because of Brinkley's anger and desire for revenge --- is going to...

My former editor Clay Felker invented modern magazine journalism when he started New York magazine in the 1960's.

He was the best.

A former sportswriter, he often told me that the best stories, the only ones people wanted to read, had to have a strong personality and conflict. And...

Think about it.

McCain is running 15% behind in Newsweek's latest poll. Obama is leading -- on Iraq, the Economy, Health Care, Energy and just about every other category except Terrorism.

McCain's only hope is to put violent chaos back, front and center.

Black's remarks --- on why...

"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
- Henry Adams

This is not going to be an easy campaign for Obama.

His lead in today's polls means nothing --- could be a dead cat bounce after winning the delegates needed...

40 years ago today Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the world turned into a darker, meaner place in the decades that followed.

As a young student at Columbia University off for the summer, I was to join the RFK campaign staff the following week.

The spring of...

Clinton Confronts Sexism On the Trail and Vows to Battle On --- Washington Post

Millions of women all over the country feel that Hillary has not gotten a fair deal from the media and are furious at the way she has been treated. They point to specific examples in this...

Sexism is alive and well in America.

One exit poll I saw had almost twice as many voters having trouble voting for a woman for president than voting for a black man.

The New York Times had a long piece about a future woman president today, Kate...

A CBS/NY Times poll finds that when asked who is "tough enough to make hard choices?" 70% said Clinton, 71% said McCain and 58% said Obama.

The pollster writes:

"Some perceptions of Obama's qualities have shifted in the last few weeks, and he has lost his edge over...

April 30, 1968

With billy clubs swinging, bloodying heads, a phalanx of riot police stomped their way through the crowd of faculty supporters standing outside Fayerweather Hall. No one was given a chance to walk away.

The police then proceeded to smash in the main doors of...

I opened my morning New York Times and Obama's picture dominated the front page. The headline read, "An Angry Obama Renounces Ties To His Ex-Pastor"

Then it hit me.

This was the brilliant plan.

An angry, forceful Obama was on the front page of every newspaper in the world,...

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Obama and the media, particularly those who welcome his new low impact politics, could (and should) be applauding Rev. Wright's very public testing of one of the most celebrated and quintessentially American rights of this great country of ours: the freedom of...

Interesting story in the Detroit News this week by political analyst Susan J. Demas discussing how Clinton might quietly pick up 50 delagates votes in Michigan.

"While all eyes were locked on Pennsylvania for the last six weeks, Clinton was quietly amassing delegates in the Wolverine State....

Political jujitsu at its best.

You take the opponent's best issue and flip it. . When you see the force coming at you, you redirect your opponent's momentum. His best issues are heartbreakingly turned against him. It takes the wind out of a campaign.

Obama's ambivalence about playing...

The above quote is from Bill Moyer's interview with Rev. Wright which is to air tonite. Rev. Wright, referring to Obama's disavowal of Wright's more controversial comments, said "He does what politicians do."

Sometimes...

Obama's ambivalence about playing the political game is how the Clinton's have successfully blunted his...

They are about: Who Is the Best Candidate? Who can Win?

Ever since the first televised debate between Kennedy & Nixon, voters have often judged candidates on inconsequential issues... Nixon lost the 1960 debate, and election, because of such trivia as how much did he sweat?...How...

A Wall Street friend who deals in billion dollar derivative deals --- Puts and Calls --- sent me the following email which outlined a way to protect his investors against unexpected contingencies.

....Call me for pricing on the Puts, I'm an axed seller.

Michael

July 2008 LHC End of...

Fox News' Judge Andrew Napolitano asked Sen. Joe Lieberman if Obama is "a Marxist, as Bill Kristol says might be the case?"

"I must say that's a good question," replied Lieberman, before stepping back to say that he would "hesitate to say he's a Marxist."
...

Airline mergers are never good for the traveling public.

The bosses always do what's best for the airlines, and the public be damned. Travel is going to be even more of a nightmare than it already is.

Other airline mergers are in the works. United has been trying to merge...

This is how the Republicans are trying to define Barack Obama: Too Liberal, Too Out of Touch.

"I know what makes people there 'bitter.' It's slick-talking politicians who look down on their beliefs and values." Michael Goodwin wrote in Sunday's Daily News about his small town in Pennsylvania.

The...

Don't be fooled.

The bankruptcies, mergers and consolidations among the major airlines are going to cost passengers more money and make travel even more of a nightmare than it already is.

It's Economics 101: Less competition means higher prices, decreased customer service, crowded flights, and serious disruptions in the...