There are those who just read the news, usually from a teleprompter, and those who report the news. Tom Fenton is a reporter, and an elegant one at that. Fenton, a four time Emmy award-winning journalist, was senior foreign correspondent for CBS News, and is now a commentator for the...

New Year's resolutions hold little fascination maybe because they usually end on New Year's Eve, but last night under the electric blue moon it occurred to me that a nation can have resolutions, too. So, for this new year, America's resolution might be to take some of the egregious money...

My father's one and only sister, Sylvia, who survives him by two decades, often reminisces from the 1920's and 1930's in letters to me despite the fact that, at 94, her fingers are humbled by arthritis.

No one can doubt that we're going through hard times, but we've been...

Lawmakers have now decided to subpoena the Salahis, the Virginia couple who arrived uninvited to the White House's first state dinner last month. The couple will appear before the Committee for Homeland Security to answer questions as to what they were doing at the dinner, and why they went there...

As Albert Camus once said, "The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor." After...

The local news was replete with images of First Lady Michelle Obama in the elegant, strapless designer gown she wore for this White House's first state dinner.

Don't get me wrong, I like to look at gowns by Naeem Khan as much as anyone, but as we edge closer...

Astonishingly, more than 30,000 foreign born detainees currently face deportation at some 350 facilities nationwide. Nearly half are legal residents who committed crimes that range from homicide to misdemeanor drug possession, and were turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement after serving their prison terms.

Reportedly, about 10% of...

There are lots of places to start looking if we want clues as to what happened at an Army base at Fort Hood, Texas. One obvious clue is Virginia Tech. We know that Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hassan, among the perpetrators of the largest shooting at a military base in...

Text and drive? If you live in England, and someone dies because you rear end them while texting, you will face jail time. In 2008, Great Britain issued a directive which clearly states that "prolonged texting" may be prosecuted as inflicting "death by dangerous driving."

Consider the wrenching, horrific case...

Hoping for a 3rd party to come along, and do away with the two party paradigm? Well, stay tuned because something is happening in a New York congressional race which may portend that change is en route, if not the change you had in mind.

While she may have left...

On September 30th, Peter Galbraith, the highest ranking American, and deputy to U.N. ambassador, Kai Eide, was fired for disclosing Eide's efforts to understate voter fraud in the recent Afghan election. It was not the Norwegian diplomat, Eide, but U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon who dismissed Galbraith.

Now, nearly two...

Okay, am I the only one who thinks the biggest enemy we face now isn't the Taliban, or Al Qaeda, but bad taste?

Just when it looks like we've heard enough about Roman Polanski's capers, and after we finally laid Michael Jackson to rest, David Letterman has to go...

Much has been said about the moral, and legal imperatives in the Roman Polanski case, and about how important it is that justice be served in the matter. Much has been said about the need for Mr. Polanski to pay his dues to society, but what does society owe us?...

If the president isn't careful, he's going to get the nickname Dr. Feelgood. And, while some may think of Obama as more like Faust than Dr. Feelgood, he's certainly working hard to pacify, and appease those special interest groups he was elected to vigorously oppose.

With the announcement today of...

When I was maybe five or six, I had a dear friend named Theresa whose parents were from Italy. We hung out for most of the third and much of the fourth grade.

Often, after school, she'd invite me to her house for milk and cookies, and before indulging I'd...

With apologies, in advance, to Naomi Klein, I think what we're looking at now is not just shock, shock and awe, but a level of toxicity unparalleled in what we like to think of as the civilized world.

Stay tuned as 2010 may prove to be a wake-up call for...

Earlier this week, the president appears to have been presented with a state of the war report from his new commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal.

Not unlike his predecessor, George W. Bush, Barack Obama seems to have taken to the notion of secrecy as the contents of the...

Sarah Palin is planning to make her first trip to Asia in September.

The former governor of Alaska, and Republican vice presidential candidate, says she is going there to learn how to use chopsticks. A reliable source reports that McCain's former running mate confides "You go to Vegas to learn...

There are giants who walk among ordinary men. Edward (Teddy) Kennedy was one such giant. And, he would be the first to remind us of something his brother Jack once said: "A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."

The senator from Massachusetts might...

Dear President Obama,

Thank you for taking on the hugely important issue of health care reform in the first term of your presidency, demonstrating that this issue is a top priority for you.

You're quite right that the spiraling cost of medical treatment is affecting every American. You're also quite...