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St. Andrews, Scotland - History Often provides an excuse for a party. In Europe and America, romantics are celebrating 1968. It seems that every hotel in Paris is booked for this month's festivities – even the Ritz. Anniversaries have a way of cleansing the past of unpleasantness.

It was the political equivalent of a roundhouse punch — a blow that was easy to see coming, but one that its intended target knew would do great damage if it landed.

In West Virginia, where Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama waged a quiet skirmish in their War Without End, the noisy ghosts of a political battle 48 years ago echoed through the Appalachian hollows.

Boston - Silence is golden, goes the aphorism. But consider the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany. Instead of walking away from the Olympics, which would have removed any tacit approval of Hitler, leaving him less emboldened – possibly even changing the course of history – the world was silent.

Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 013, Issue 34 - 5/19/2008 - To the question of the moment--What did Barack Obama know and when did he know it?--I answer, Obama knew everything, and he's known it for ages.

Boston - Parents who have struggled to tear a teenager away from Facebook or detach one from texting know that teens increasingly communicate through writing.

WASHINGTON -- When I grew up, a long time ago, I wanted desperately to be a foreign correspondent. Names like Marrakech, Kashgar, Istanbul, Bali and Timbuktu rang like strange church bells in my ears, calling me forth to the worship of discovery. Foreign: That was what I was after. I was besotted with the exotic!

Creators Syndicate - The American Library Association (ALA) has released its annual survey of offenses to "intellectual freedom," the books whose place in public schools and public libraries is the most "challenged" by the public. Leading that list for the second straight year is the children's book "And Tango Makes Three," about a penguin family with two daddies.

In his victory speech after the North Carolina primary, Sen. Barack Obama said something that is all the more remarkable for how little it has been remarked upon.

Everyone who writes for a living or reads for pleasure has a pet peeve. My first city editor had a thing about "not only." He insisted that "not only" always had to be followed by "but also." Thousands of otherwise rational folks will never end a sentence with a preposition. I myself get cranky over "replica."

Creators Syndicate - Sixty is pretty old for a country. Consider that by the time the United States was 60 (counting from the conclusion of the War of Independence), the year was 1843.

Creators Syndicate - "We'd rather not win than to have to do that," Cindy McCain told Ann Curry of the "Today" show, in response to a question about negative campaigning. "That's not worth winning for.

The Nation -- One of the few national politicians willing to speak unflinchingly about how the so-called "robust" U.S. economy has failed vast swaths of America, last month, Sen.

On the weekend of the Kentucky Derby it seems appropriate to say a few words about the horse and the writer. The one has occupied the other through the ages.

Boston - When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer met with Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang earlier this month, what kept them from making a deal?

WASHINGTON -- When they say, "It's not the money ..." -- it's the money!

Creators Syndicate - "It's a recession," said former President Harry Truman, "when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours."

WASHINGTON -- We shall now engage in a discussion on "toughness." A little seminar on what I would define as "uncompromising determination." A brief give-and-take on that bothersome rhetorical fight that is continuing to shatter the Democratic Party.