Victory Has 1,000 Fathers; Defeat Has 1,000

After Immersing Myself In The Mysteries Of The Electoral College For A Novel I Wrote In The '90s, I Came Away Believing That The Case For Scrapping It Is Less Obvious Than I Originally Thought.

In Another Life, Before Taking The Veil Of Journalistic Purity, I Practiced The Black Arts Of A Political Operative, Including 'debate Prep.

When An Office-holder Facing A Multi-count Indictment Says That He Has Decided To Spend More Time With His Family, The Proper Response Is A Horse-laugh. When An Accused Politician Explains That A Charge Of Corruption Is 'really' An Attack On His Or Her Race, Religion, Ethnic Background Or Gender, The Odds That Something Felonious Happened Jumps.

Describing The Jury In The Oj Simpson Murder Trial: These People Have Served A Longer Sentence Than Some People Who Have Committed Murder.

George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt And Dwight Eisenhower All Rode Their Wartime Heroics Into The White House.