I caught a cab during the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York. The driver immediately began teeing off on Republicans. The cabbie said that his father told him, “Republicans care about General Electric, and Democrats care about you and me.”

The actress Julia Roberts, driving a Mercedes SUV, recently ran a man off the road, got out of her car and demanded he stop following her and photographing her young children.

I love hearing and singing the music of the Christmas season. Topping my “favorites” are ì”Oh Holy Night,” “Joy to the World,” “Oh Come All Ye Faithful,” “Silent Night,” and most of the traditional carols we grew up with.

Poor Ron Radosh is still hoping liberals will forgive him.

He wrote a good book a quarter-century ago with Joyce Milton — “The Rosenberg File” — which was supposed to exonerate Julius Rosenberg, but instead concluded that Rosenberg was guilty of Soviet espionage.

We continue our series on the descendants (or probable descendants) of Beverly Byram and Sarah Williamson who settled in Pike and Coweta counties in the 1800s. I say "probable" because there are few who can actually be proved, based on evidence I've been able to uncover (and there's not much). I've had to take a piece from here and a snippet from there, put them together and say, "Well … that might be another one … but then, again … maybe not." Quite frustrating. I wish someone would come out of the woodwork with a family Bible and say, "Oh. Is this what you're looking for?"

On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, my wife was “in the zone.” That is, she was determined to do most of the Thanksgiving cooking and everybody had best watch out and get out the way if they knew what was good for them.

If you thought Hillary Clinton’s government takeover plan for health care was bad, wait ‘til you see what she has in store for the housing sector.

The extended therapy session informally known as the 2008 presidential campaign takes new twists, new turns. We might manage, by the time it’s over, 11 months hence, to figure out what we really want as a nation. Though one tends to doubt it. And if we do figure it out, we’ll almost surely change our minds.

There’re two types of people in the world — those who like real ones and those who like fake ones.

Sure, an argument can be made for fake ones. They’re more symmetrical than natural ones. You can get them as small as you like or so big they hardly fit through the front door.

Since electricity is generated mostly by burning coal, has anyone calculated how much pollution is created by electric cars, even though none of that pollution comes out of their tailpipes?

Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani was in Washington on Tuesday to raise money ... and to see me. In a nondescript office building two blocks from the White House, Giuliani answered a wide range of questions on domestic and foreign policy.

Listening to people like Lou Dobbs, John Edwards and Mike Huckabee lamenting the plight of America’s middle class and poor, you’d have to conclude that things are going to hell in a handbasket. According to them, there’s wage stagnation, while the rich are getting richer and the poor becoming poorer. There are a couple of updates that tell quite a different story.

Don’t let anyone tell you nothing exciting ever happens at the Waffle House.

On Wednesdays, we have breakfast at Store 777, the one on Ga. Highway 74 South in Peachtree City. Last week started like every other. I don’t even order any more; Terri knows what I want. Dave varies his breakfast from week to week and requires a bit more time.

No one ever accused Patrick J. Buchanan of lacking conviction or of consulting a focus group before saying what he thinks.

Sixty years ago I was the editor of the daily newspaper at college, and one memorable day in September, plotting the year’s business, we got word that the two big tobacco companies (R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris) were suspending all their ads in the college press. The news was greeted with dismay both by editors who smoked (“We’ll just die from something else,” they harrumphed) and by those who did not, equally affected by this big hole in the advertising budget. Sixty years!

Not long ago I was asking a friend of mine, who has a private jet, about his long-time pilot whom I have known fondly for many years and flown with on several occasions.

With housing prices falling, energy prices climbing and the stock market on a roller coaster, it’s no wonder many Americans are worried about their economic condition.

“There seems to be a pattern here. It takes a Clinton to clean up after a Bush.”

So said presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., during a speech — specifically on the economy — before a crowd in Knoxville, Iowa. Okay, we understand campaign sloganeering — purportedly funny lines and the like during the campaign season. But shouldn’t the Associated Press, in reporting Clinton’s line, provide the reader with a little information?

People who are in the top 1 percent in income receive far more than 1 percent of the attention in the media. Even aside from miscellaneous celebrity bimbos, the top 1 percent attract all sorts of hand-wringing and finger-pointing.

Last week, in an article titled “Walking a Tightrope on Immigration,” The New York Times made the fact-defying claim that the illegal immigration issue poses a risk for Republicans who appeal to voters “angry” about illegal immigration. (This is as opposed to voters “angry” that they spent good money buying a copy of The New York Times.)

It is incorrect to assume that all the pro-abortion and anti-abortion arguments have been made. They are centerpieces in vivid, resourceful, emotional and inquisitive thought. Witness the continuing, and intense, curiosity about the presidential candidates and how they feel on the basic issues.

Scripture says to “give honor to whom honor is due.” When I first met Randolph Adler in 1995 he was the founding bishop of a fledgling denomination called The Charismatic Episcopal Church. I met him at a conference somewhere and listened to his teaching on “Signs and Symbols.”

Do you know what math curriculum your child is being taught? Are you worried that your third-grader hasn’t learned simple multiplication yet? Have you been befuddled by educational jargon such as “spiraling,” which is used to explain why your kid keeps bringing home the same insipid busywork of cutting, gluing and drawing? And are you alarmed by teachers who emphasize “self-confidence” over proficiency while their students fall further and further behind? Join the club.

I know, I know, “reading” is a righteousness issue: the kind that brings the well-meaning and high-minded to the table, causes them to pull off their spectacles and pass their palms across their foreheads at the imputation modern kids don’t want to do it.

WASHINGTON — Well-connected Republicans in Mississippi were shocked by more than the unexpected nature of Trent Lott’s announced resignation Monday. They were stunned that Lott, in good health at age 66 and at the top of his game, was leaving the Senate one year into his fourth term in order to make more money.

It finally happened — just in time for the holidays — The Wife’s leaving.

Now I know that’s not a surprise to some of you. How she puts up with yours truly for as long as she has is certainly a modern-day miracle.

Come in, come in! Close the door -- it’s cold out there. Come stand by the fire. You’re just in time to watch the sunset.

The Democratic Party of Fayette County has developed a platform on local issues that we would like to present to the voters of the county. While national issues often determine how people will vote locally, we feel that there are valid options available to address local issues and we feel that these options are not being given the consideration that they deserve by the existing governments within the county.

When I and several of the girls came into the theater for the folk art musical, a pleasant man handed each of us a piece of paper with words on it.

Just as Thanksgiving and Christmas come around with predictable regularity, so, too, do Middle East peace summits arrive near the end of modern presidencies.