“Somewhere between plagiarism and homage,” writes Michael Kinsely, “there is a line.” (The Imitation Game,” by Michael Kinsley, Vanity Fair, March 2015, pg. 197)  He raises an important point, and as a blogger who works from source material, I regularly question whether wha

When I ran for public office, I described myself as a fiscal conservative but a social liberal.  Over time, I came to see my description was facile and without meaning.  What was I saying about myself?  That I don’t want people to pay much in taxes, but I wanted day care and heal

Many years ago, I recall listening to a pundit’s warning on the PBS McNeal-Lehrer Report that a time might come when the world would look back upon the simpler days of the cold war when all the United States had to worry about was Soviet containment.  Once the shadow of the Russian