Right shouldn’t imitate Bush-era Left With the Bush administration ending and the Obama administration beginning, it is worth pondering John McCain’s gracious concession speech, giving due consideration to the ways in which the political opposition behaved during the tenures of our last two presidents. Even though President Bill Clinton governed as a centrist and most of his major accomplishments were...

The Tragedy of Deborah Jeane Palfrey On May 1, Blanche Palfrey awoke from a nap and wondered where her daughter was. The widowed 76-year-old wandered outside her Tarpon Springs, Fla., mobile home and noticed a tricycle — normally housed in a nearby toolshed — in her yard. Opening the door to the shed, she discovered her 52-year-old daughter hanging from a...