obituaries
James Watt is dead. Finally. Of all the Reagan appointees, Watt has a serious claim to be the worst. And that's a high bar! Born in Lusk, Wyoming in 1938,.
Pat Robertson is dead, mourned by no one who can be considered a decent American. Born in 1930, Marion (Pat) Robertson spent well over a half-century pushing a witch doctor.

Here’s the simplest way to describe Ken Starr. When it fit his interests to talk about “morality,” he did so. When it fit his interests to defend the greatest moral.
Despite what Americans want to believe about the man whom they credit with doing much to end the Cold War, Mikhail Gorbachev is probably best described as the greatest failure.
U.S. President Donald Trump, left, presents Senator Orrin Hatch, a Republican from Utah and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony in.
Let’s be very clear up front here. Bob Dole was not a nice man. He was never a nice man. Just because he was the last World War II veteran.
Last week, we had a very unfortunate comment thread when I mentioned that one of the bombers portrayed in The Battle of Algiers still lives. Too many commenters basically preferred.
Richard Trumka, long-time president of the AFL-CIO, has died of a heart attack at the age of 72. There is much to admire about Trumka's career. He will be remembered.