Bilbo's Random Thought Collection

The CNN website has a link to a video report titled, "Non-binding resolutions a cop-out?" ( http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player...

There are a lot of disheartening things about the harsh political partisanship that has been the sand in the gears of our government, but on...

I suppose it had to happen eventually: an author in Finland has published a 332-page novel written entirely in text message format. The boo...

This morning's "Doonesbury" cartoon took off on the plans for the proposed Bush Presidential Library in the forum of a daily W...

In an opinion article published in the New York Times on January 14th, Nicholas Kristof asked this timely question about the United States: ...

Yesterday I got into a three-way e-mail discussion with my friend Jake and John, one of my co-workers. It started when John sent out an e-ma...

Thomas Friedman, one of my favorite commentators on the Middle East, wrote a very perceptive article in yesterday's New York Times. It ...

Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution requires that "He (the President) shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of...

That sunny bluebird of happiness, Ayman al Zawahiri, has emerged from hiding to distribute yet another recorded fulmination against the Unit...

After the first half of January, which felt more like the first half of April, winter has arrived in the Washington, DC area with a vengeanc...