If the Dead Pope coverage goes on any longer, I might actually get cured of my TV-watching habit. Thanks to all the saints that someone has finally boxed up Mr. Wojtyla and once and for all buried him. Perhaps we can now get nine days of relief before we are doused with one more obsessive [...]

You might say my good pal and Nation magazine colleague David Corn, has been corn-holed by some unbelievably cowardly and retrograde administrators at a southern state college. David had decided to do a favor for the mostly-ignored Mountain Home campus of the two-year Arkansas State University by agreeing to give a speech for a fee [...]

Here’s my final, feature report just posted on the border Minuteman Project. I conclude it is one of the great "media simulacra" of recent times.

I have mostly stayed out of this one.  It’s difficult for me to say anything very constructive when it comes to the Pope. But enough is enough. I’m most grateful to my parents who, rather inadvertently, raised me as an atheist. It’s a great gift that should be bestowed on millions of others. When I lived [...]

John O’Leary, who died Saturday at age 58, was a fine man, an exemplary diplomat and a great American. I met him in Santiago five years ago when he was serving as the Clinton Administration’s ambassador to Chile (a post he had to relinquish in 2001 as the Bush administration took power). Given the U.S. [...]

After 344 posts with 12,096 comments seen by 700,000 visitors, this blog celebrates its first birthday today. I initiated it with some trepidation and a good deal of uncertainty as to where it would lead and what if anything it would mean. I keep wondering. But it’s a lot of fun to post and always [...]

I’ve updated and expanded the photo collection from the border Minuteman Project. Click here.

  Tucson, Arizona Saturday Nite Back from the border and spending three days among the recruits to the Minuteman Project. And it’s quite enough, thank you. By now this story is being buried by the avalanche of televised hagiography being pumped out of the Vatican. And therein resides a message for the fringies that organized [...]

Near Bisbee, Arizona — Spent the day with Bay Buchanan, Rep. Tom Tancredo and a couple of hundred (or less) Minutemen in Tombstone (see post below). I have only a sporadic web connection tonite and can’t post pix or much text. Heading out to the border itself with the citizen-troops Saturday morning. Full report with [...]