Tuesday Morning News Roundup It appears that Karl Rove will be testifying on Capitol Hill about the nine fired US attorneys. Executive privilege will not cover Mr. Rove anymore. Rove’s lawyer, Robert Luskin, has suggested that Karl Rove will not take the fifth when testifying before Congress, ...

Emmy and Tony award winning film actor James Whitmore has died at age 87 in Malibu California.  His son Steve Whitmore released a statement indicating that his father was diagnosed with lung cancer in November 2008 and died at his home on Friday afternoon. He graduated from Yale and served in the M...

Barack Obama takes office today with a realistic prospect of joining the ranks of history's most powerful presidents....

Barack Obama takes office today with a realistic prospect of joining the ranks of history's most powerful presidents....

Except for Richard Nixon, no president since Harry Truman has left office more unloved than George W. Bush. Truman's rehabilitation took decades. Bush's will come sooner. Indeed, it has already begun. The chief revisionist? Barack Obama....

If Harry Truman's inauguration had been proclaimed by one of the theaters lining Washington's black U Street in 1949, the marquee might have read: "The Truman Inauguration, starring Lionel Hampton."...

President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush hosted a Hanukkah reception at the White House on Monday night, December 15, 2008.  President Bush opened with a short speech, followed by the lighting of the menorah (see transcript and video below; the person who lit the candles said “Hashe...

When Barack Obama stood on the stage in Chicago yesterday with his "dear friend" Hillary Clinton at his side, it was the starkest evidence yet that change had come -- to the president-elect....

When Barack Obama stood on the stage in Chicago yesterday with his "dear friend" Hillary Clinton at his side, it was the starkest evidence yet that change had come -- to the president-elect....

I recently e-mailed  some friends in Cincinnati to say I’d be visiting soon and that we should play poker. Years ago we would play every Sunday night. It’s hard to imagine now that we had the time for a weekly game. But we played regularly for at least a couple of years. ( Above are ...