Peter Murmann

Last week I was reminded again of the sage observations that real life generates stories that no fiction writer could ever imagine.  Who would have thought that the prosecutor who went after prostitution rings would fall with lightening speed precisely because he was involved with the kind of ring in his previous role as attorney [Read More]

It is a leap year again. I barely noticed it until I read this fascinating article. A Great Leap Forward By CHRIS TURNEY WHEN Frederic, the hero of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Pirates of Penzance,” learns that his Feb. 29 birthday means that he is not 21 years old but 5, he figures he’ll have to serve [Read More]

I had no idea how prolific a writer Ben Franlin was. Here you can read a short biography of one American Founding fathers and learn how to educate yourself to be a great writer.

Benjamin Franklin

He had some business to attend to

By PEGGY NOONAN (WSJ) If Hillary Clinton loses, does she know how to lose? What will that be, if she loses? Will she just say, “I concede” and go on vacation at a friend’s house on an island, and then go back to the Senate and wait? Is it possible she could be so normal? Politicians [Read More]

This is the second story I read today about the primary that is funny. By Alex Joseph in Slate I’m a young male Democrat, and I support … Hillary Clinton. I may be the loneliest man at Georgetown University, where I’m practically a social pariah. Supporting Hillary on a college campus this year is like being [Read More]

As an Obama supporter, I was disappointed to read that the NY Times endorsed Hillary Clinton. Now one of editorial writers has gone to an Obama rally in California and is preparing himself for the defeat of Hillary. EDITORIAL OBSERVER Michelle, Maria, Caroline and Oprah on the Hustings in California By ANDREW ROSENTHAL Los Angeles Forty-eight hours [Read More]

I did not realize just how deeply families across the country are divided over who should be the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. Fortunately the air will clear within a few weeks. In Democratic Families, Politics Makes for Estranged Bedfellows By JODI KANTOR Maria Shriver woke up Sunday morning and decided to surprise the audience at a [Read More]

During the four or five weeks leading up to February 5th—“Tsunami Tuesday,” when voters in states with half the nation’s population participate in a not quite national primary—the emotional texture of the Democratic side of the Presidential campaign changed profoundly. For most of Year One of this insanely elongated process, the Democratic Party had been [Read More]