This indeed is a story until now untold. With many books about FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins and Winston Churchill, we never encountered the important, perhaps essential role, of Mrs. Churchill. Here is the New York Times book review of her recent biography. Incidentally, if Hopkins was “cosseted”, he needed it. The man was hanging […]

Then comes a new owner and followed several years later by a new managing editor, the former without deep roots in Boston and the latter from Florida and elsewhere and a Jew.

“The case against Mr. [Gilberto] Valle touched on a fundamental question of the digital era: When does a plot discussed in Internet chat rooms cross the line into actual criminality?”

EDITOR: These are the guys, including the Daily News, who launched the attacks against Attorney General Kathleen Kane. To the extent that she was involved in sharing grand jury information with the craven Daily News reporters, it was to explain her sound reasons for not prosecuting certain African American politicians from Philadelphia.

By Robert M. Gates December 3 at 8:13 PM The writer served as secretary of defense in the George W. Bush and Obama administrations. WASHINGTON POST OP-ED: … ●We need a president who understands the system of government bequeathed to us by the Founders — and grasps the reality that with power divided among three […]

“Now most of Syrians consider you an enemy. I’m not sure that Russians are aware of that now. They have acquired enemies in Chechnya, Afghanistan, and now in Syria. And once you’re an enemy of Syria, you are becoming an enemy of the entire Arab world. And it’s not a trifle – to be the enemy of all Arabs.”

CNN/ORC national poll. EDITOR: A Donald Trump Republican candidacy might be the best (or worse) thing for the country. If indeed he is another Barry Goldwater, then Hillary Clinton, a middle of the road candidate, will have a Democrat Senate and an enlarged minority in the House. This could bring about reforms that the majority […]

NEW YORK TIMES: Donald L. Blankenship, whose leadership of the Massey Energy Company was widely criticized after 29 workers were killed in the Upper Big Branch mine in 2010, was convicted Thursday of conspiring to violate federal safety standards, becoming the most prominent American coal executive ever convicted of a crime related to mining deaths. […]

Christopher A. Hackman is a judge of the Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas in Pennsylvania. I am writing this article based on my knowledge of facts about a friends custody battle in front of [Judge Hackman. It is my belief that Lancaster County Common Pleas Judge Christopher A.] Hackman should be removed from this […]

>“Health spending in the United States last year topped $3 trillion — an average of $9,500 a person — as five years of exceptionally slow growth gave way to the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid and private insurance coverage, and as prescription drug prices resumed their sharp climbs, the government said Wednesday…

NEWSMAX: … In a private memo obtained by The Washington Post, National Republican Senatorial Committee Executive Director Ward Baker tells senators up for re-election they should adopt some of Trump’s style and message while avoiding his more controversial statements. “Trump has risen because voters see him as authentic, independent, direct, firm, — and believe he […]

DAILY BEAST / AP: …Police say the assault was launched by a heavily armed county worker and his wife and targeted his co-workers from the Department of Public Health who were holding a celebration. The carnage happened at the Inland Regional Center, which helps people with disabilities find work, get treatment, housing and transportation. The […]