WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded by Drew Pearson 1932 Combining Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – With 576,412 residents, Wyoming is the least populated state in the union, but among those who call the mountainous state home are some towering figures, including former Senator Alan Simpson […]
Majority Leader McCain?
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded by Drew Pearson 1932 Majority Leader McCain? By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – One thing that’s been consistent over Sen. John McCain’s, R-Ariz., long political career, he likes to be where the action is. Whether it’s campaign finance reform, an early cause of his, or […]
The fog of bureaucracy
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded by Drew Pearson 1932 The fog of bureaucracy By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – Do bureaucrats really run the country? If the following example is replicated throughout the government, the answer is, “Yes.” Not since the days of the $434 hammer and the $600 toilet […]
Egypt may have it right
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded by Drew Pearson 1932 Egypt may have it right By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – The administration is getting pushback for its refusal to call what happened in Egypt a coup. It’s a word that carries a lot of baggage, and if used to describe […]
The myths of Gettysburg
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded by Drew Pearson 1932 The myths of Gettysburg By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – The Battle of Gettysburg fought 150 years ago on July 1-3, 1863, instantly engendered a series of myths and legends, many of which have lived on to the present. Among these […]
Egypt’s tyranny of the majority
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded by Drew Pearson 1932 Egypt’s tyranny of the majority By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – In 1787, future President James Madison warned about the tyranny of the majority, and, in the process, laid the foundation for American democracy by providing constitutional safeguards that protected minority […]
Barack and his buddy
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded by Drew Pearson 1932 Barack and his buddy By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – You couldn’t find two more different personalities. The buttoned-down reserved intellectual, pencil thin and disciplined at the dinner table, and the gregarious Jersey boy, equal parts bully and schmoozer, together on […]
Send in the spooks
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded by Drew Pearson 1932 Send in the spooks By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – President Obama is in Africa for the next week, making friends and influencing people, and what’s happening in Syria will have to wait probably until he’s back on U.S. soil. That […]
An undignified Court
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded by Drew Pearson 1932 An undignified Court By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – The news quickly went viral that conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito rolled his eyes as his colleague, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, read her dissent on behalf of the liberal minority in the Voting Rights decision handed […]
The real nuclear threats
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Founded by Drew Pearson 1932 The real nuclear threats By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – President Obama’s speech at the historic Brandenburg Gate in Berlin sought to capture some of the magic of the speech he delivered in Berlin as a candidate for president in 2008. […]