Katie and Patrick are never allowed outside alone. They are eight and five now, old enough to play in their yard without their mother always watching. A high fence surrounds the family’s corner lot; they cannot escape. That, however, is not what worries my friend Terri. She lives in fear–absolute,…
David Chandler’s spirit was willing, but his heart literally was not in it. On Sunday morning, Chandler wrote the conclusion to his own story by ending his life. His second life, really. Chandler’s first is documented on a resume that made bad bureaucrats quake: an endless string of journalism jobs…
In one corner: professor Jonathan Turley and his George Washington law students, fighting for the 22 Rocky Flats grand jurors. In the opposite corner: some of America’s corporate heavyweights, represented by the country’s most notorious brawlers–Washington lobbyists. Somewhere in between: Colorado congressmen Dan Schaefer and David Skaggs. Sitting ringside: whistleblower…
I have been hugged by Ken Hamblin. This, I realize, hardly puts me in an exclusive club. The man is a heat-seeking missile. “I want to be liked,” the talk-show host says, just seconds before verbally skewering another victim. When a group of journalists with all the huggability of prickly…
