Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson wrote a fine tribute to the lady being celebrated today:My fellow citizens of a more pragmatic bent should be impressed by 70 years of doing a hard thing well… (View Post)

NickPalmer - The 1949 film, which happened to be on an old movie sub-channel (Movies!) that I occasionally watch. If you want a less dramatic discussion of Huey Long, You might want to look at the Lo… (View Post)

NickPalmer - I would definitely recommend "The Last Hurrah" -- but then I am a poltical junkie. The movie isn't bad, either. (I did, just recently, see "All the King's Men&qu… (View Post)

Going back to an earlier discussion: Here's an observation on how acceptable language has changed. My two favorite American political novels are "All the King's Men" and "The… (View Post)

Not many American adults know what a Tory is. (A few older ones would remember that the US once had a Whig Party.) Which is too bad, because it ruins the joke about the chicken during the American Re… (View Post)