The French Lady Macbeth Outdoes the Original

Who Needs Poison When You Can Tweet?

With one 137-character tweet, Valerie Trierweiler, 48, the French First Lady, proved to be an amazing Lady Macbeth: She got rid of her predecessor,...

North Carolina – You’re Never on My Mind

North Carolina Allows Officials to Refuse to Perform Gay Marriages, read Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide Section correspondent. Marquel was lost...

The Genius of Herman Cain (ruined by a Ben Stiller movie)

 The Republican primary season (can something that lasts 18 months be considered a season?) is nothing if not entertaining. Trump's self-proclaimed victory over Obama...

The Affability of Evil. An Evening with Dick Cheney

It is not often, in my experience, that a person is given the chance to find out what he will sell out for. In...

The NY Gay Marriage Bill and Its Place in Modern Activism

I cannot prevent anyone from getting angry, or mad, or frustrated. I can only hope that they’ll turn that anger and frustration and madness...

TheWeekholeView – The Polling Nation

Here, each hole starts on Wednesdays and this is what fell through this week, in more than one way or day since Saturday: On Saturday,...

The next president of Syria – email from a TPV reader

What I heard is Obama told McCain they were looking for a President and had great respect for old people. We know from his...

Hillary Not for President? It’s “None of Your Business”

According to Huma, one of her protégées and Anthony Weiner's wife of record, Hillary just disqualified herself from running as a female presidential candidate....

Storytelling à l’Ancienne

Oprah taped the final episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” last week. I cannot claim that she helped me raise my children, or that...

Views of Our Pothole Democracy

People like me learned about the existence of former U.S. Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) in 2007, when Jon Stewart told the story of the...

Net Neutrality for Dummies

Net Neutrality is the new "Occupy Wall Street" short-lived movement of the day:  few understand or care about, in part because it has no...

Here We Go Again

Marquel, TPVs NYTimes That's Where I Hail From Section correspondent, was sleeping and snoring, when a fly woke him up, and he read "In...

Hillary Clinton Tells the FBI She Is Innocent of Typing

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's lawyer has given the Federal Bureau of Investigation Clinton's private email server and a thumb drive of work-related emails...

Mitt Romney’s Critique of Rick Perry, and Political Musings

This summer, thanks to a grant awarded to study politics, literature, and theology at Cornell, I spent a good deal of time studying in...
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