A conservative, to paraphrase and slightly alter Irving KristolëƵs saying, is a liberal who has been mugged by reality ëƵ especially by a reality that is plain to the vast bulk of ordinary people but remains inexplicably invisible to liberal intellectuals and politicians.That saying applies, ...
I usually donëƵt try to ëƵdo sports,ëƵ as some of my newsroom colleagues might say. But I beg your indulgence as I try to pay proper homage to football great Jim Brown, even as I still try to figure out what proper homage looks like.Brown, who died last week at age 87, may well have been the ...