Democrats hoping to win elections this fall by racing to the center should sit down and have a conversation with Buzz Aldrin.

The second man to set foot on the moon on Apollo 11 is also one of NASA's leading authorities on the subject of rendezvous in space. This...

Four years ago, a slight 51% of the electorate decided for the rest of us that we didn't need leadership so much as protection -- from heartland-targeting terrorists, trial lawyers, gay newlyweds and other imaginary bogeymen. Now that the 8-year leadership gap has exposed so many signs of an empire...

Dear Barack,

First of all let me just say that I am, like, your biggest fan, oh my God! I absolutely love watching you speak and I'm moved every time I hear or see you. There is no one I'd rather see in the White House than you. However, I'm...

Hardly anyone knows it, but we've just lost another Beatle. Not the most famous, influential, mysterious or essential, but perhaps the most indispensable one. His name is Neil Aspinall.

When it all comes down to it, the Beatles were a six-member team. You'll rarely hear their names mentioned and...

If there was any doubt before, which there wasn't, it's gone now. Watching Nancy Pelosi on The View yesterday morning provided the final proof that the backbone of the House is only as strong as its speaker. Her body language said it all. There she sat in the center of...

Let's say you're a dad. You have a couple of sons in their late teens who are smart enough, well mannered enough and ambitious enough, but at this stage they are also hormone-driven, ideological and rebellious. They constantly lie about their activities and make bad decisions that cost you...

Our world is one of global iconicism. Living among us are a tiny Korean dictator who wants to be Elvis, a Saudi jihadist who thinks he's Mohammed, a U.S. president who flips between Clint Eastwood and Johnny Carson, his top advisor who channels Napoleon, and a vice president believed by...

Bill Clinton gets it at least. This morning, while discussing Iraq with NBC's Matt Lauer, he recalled the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1988. "They did it very rapidly", he said. "And hundreds of Russian troops were killed on the way out of the country, because they presented themselves as...

At the risk of joining the ranks of politicians and pundits who use the "I'm no expert" disclaimer before pretending to be experts, lemme start by saying:

I'm not a comedian...although I once gave it a shot. My first night on the comic stage I had to follow Bill Hicks...

No, he didn't!

Did Roger Ailes just say what I think he said?

"Candidates who can't face Fox, can't face al Qaeda, and that's what's coming."

Okay, lemme get this straight. In order to take on the deadliest, most cunning and elusive terrorist network in the...

While watching the State of the Union address and the subsequent Democratic response, I witnessed two states of denial, united under one roof.

First one, of course, was the president, in denial about the erosion of democracy under his administration, the geopolitics of a Middle East region he doesn't understand...

It’s not at all surprising to read about George W. Bush living in a bubble such as the one described in Newsweek. Nor is it surprising that he regards disagreement as betrayal or that he insists he would invade Iraq again knowing what he knows now. These are all prime...

When I was born in the fall of 1964, the Beatles had just completed a full-scale invasion of the world (they actually were greeted as liberators). In my home the sound of the Beatles was like mother’s milk, and the voice of John Lennon was as recognizable as those of...

The growing opposition to the Iraq War has backed the Bush administration into a corner, and now their only position in the debate is to claim there isn’t one. Forget about whether or not we should’ve invaded, that ship has sailed, they argue, and Congress agreed to launch it.

The...

In Washington there’s a dispute on whether to erect a Christmas tree or a Holiday tree. In Boston there’s uproar because the city renamed the Holiday tree as the Christmas tree. Song lyrics must be changed, nativity scenes must grant equal time.

Can we get over this, already?

The Christmas...

I’m always amused at how cable news, in attempting to simulate political discourse, holds debates on issues by airing non-budging, diametrically opposed viewpoints rather than two reasonable folks who actually hear one another. Fox News’ John Kasich, for example, brought an atheist in to argue in favor of removing “God”...