Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney picked up 10 more delegates in an easy win in Nevada over the weekend, giving him about 7 percent of the total number he needs to win the nomination. Yes, you read that correctly: He's only 7 percent of the way there

Bob Barr represented Georgia’s Seventh District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003. He was known as a staunch advocate for limited government and individual liberty --- passions which continue to be the hallmark of his post-congressio

Found this is my inbox just now, and it was like nails on a black board... or listening to Renee Graziano on "Mob Wives:" Hi, We are in

The kerfuffle over Newt Gingrich’s status as a Reagan Republican will be a footnote to the 2012 campaign at most. But that does not mean we cannot learn from it. On the surface, this is a silly issue. Last week, Mitt Romney was painting Gingrich as a min

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Declaring victory in the South Carolina Republican primary on Saturday night, a glowering Newt Gingrich declared himself apart from the "elites in Washington and New York." These elites, Gingrich declared, "have no understanding, no care, no concern, no

The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Monday, Jan. 23: Declaring victory in the South Carolina Republican primary on Saturday night, a glowering Newt Gingrich declared himself apart from the "elites in Washington and New York." The

Newt Gingrich speaks during a primary night rally with his wife Callista Gingrich after he was declared the winner on January 21 in Columbia, South Carolina. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Declaring victory in the South Carolina Republican primary on Saturda

Bob Barr represented Georgia’s Seventh District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003. He was known as a staunch advocate for limited government and individual liberty --- passions which continue to be the hallmark of his post-congressio

Tonight at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Syracuse University will announce the launch of the Janklow Arts Leadership Program, a new M.A. program named for the great literary agent and College of Arts and Sciences alumnus Morton L. Ja

William Safire, whose weekly columns on etymology graced the pages of the New York Times Magazine for 30 years, once tried to ferret out the source of the twin sayings, “the devil is the details” and “God is in the details.” Safire’s sources offered lots

In the English-speaking world, the use of the secular phrases "Before the Common Era" and "Common Era," abbreviated "BCE" and "CE," have shown up in academia, in scientific and historical works, and increasingly among the mainstream media. Among reasons

The cliche: "This president is a crony capitalist. He's a job killer," said Mitt Romney today. It's a seemingly odd application of one of the Democrats' favorite attacks on George W. Bush. But the barb is enjoying something of a reclamation among Republ

The late, great New York Times columnist William Safire wrote a year-end column he called Office Pool. In it, Safire offered, multiple-choice style, a series of possible news events that could take place in the year ahead, along with his predictions. Saf

It’s remarkable how much can change in 12 months. A year ago, in my second annual predictions column , the first topic was Michelle Rhee. Remember her? She used to be a somebody. Also, and this is truly extraordinary, I blew one prediction because Pepco’

TRADITIONAL print dictionaries have long enlisted lexicographers to scrutinize new words as they pop up, weighing their merits and eventually accepting some of them. Not Wordnik , the vast online dictionary. No modern-day Samuel Johnson or Noah Webster p

'Nattering nabobs of negativism,' is probably the most enduring of the many alliterative declarations of Spiro Agnew, Vice President in the Nixon administration until he was forced to resign due to corruption. This particular phrase, penned by Nixon spee

Posted on Dec 29, 2011 By Jeff Shesol “Speechwright: An Insider’s Take on Political Rhetoric” A book by William F. Gavin “I have serious doubts about eloquence,” confesses William Gavin at the start of his memoir of a life spent writing speeches. This is

It’s a truism, and therefore largely true, that American actors approach the characters they play from the inside out — psychoanalyzing the role, then finding some mirror of themselves in it — whereas British actors get to their characters from the outsi