People who want to read stories about the inside baseball of politics, the little steps behind the scenes which wind up controlling the visible, public results. These are the “Politico” fans.

In San Francisco last week, Senator Barack Obama, Democrat, made a certain statement about people who live in small towns in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania primary approaches.

I’m grateful to an article in the National Post by Colby Cost for bringing this item to my attention. It is about Wal-Mart, but has nothing to do with the legendary business model of that company. Or does it?

Be aware of the Nigerian Scam. The amazing thing is that anyone who has the ability to read English and operate a computer on the internet still falls for this scam. The word is out; the scam is obvious. 

The title of this piece is from a song by Warren Zevon. I had always heard the line as a telegram from a banana republic in crisis; the whole line was "Send lawyers, guns and money; all Hell has broken loose."

Mark Twain once remarked, “America has no native criminal class, except perhaps the Congress.”  He was exaggerating, but not much.  Read on and then ask yourself, "Do we have the government we deserve?"

My favorite professor, philosopher, student of American history, and columnist, is Dr. Thomas Sowell.  Once or twice a year he writes a column of individual thoughts – that are worth writing but not worth a column.  I now borrow that idea for this column.

This week Duke University reached a "non-disclosed settlement" with the three lacrosse players who were savaged by the District Attorney in Durham, Mike Nifong. He wanted to hoodwink black voters into putting him back in office.  That succeeded, but he has now been removed from office, and disbarred.

This is my first complete column about John Edwards.  I hope it’ll also be the last.  The bottom line for us in North Carolina is quite clear.  Edwards didn’t run for re-election to the Senate because if he had, he would have lost.