REPUBLICAN FIELD WITH A YEAR TO GO

Trump is entertainer-in-chief, and CEO of any room he's in. He's got energy and he's a charmer. He can talk for hours as long as the subject is Trump. People could not care less if what he says isn't so. They just enjoy the show. Carson is the best guy in the field to have

BARACK OBAMA: NOT A NATURAL-BORN KILLER

There's no doubt about it, Barack Obama is a reluctant warrior. He's cautious about committing American forces to battle, and equally cautious about ordering military actions that are likely to result in substantial civilian casualties for the other side. In other words, he brings a pro-life point of view to the table when assessing the

AFTER BOSTON: POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM

There's nothing quite like a tragedy such as Boston to bring out the political opportunists. Mix in Muslim perpetrators with looming crises in Iran, Syria, and Lebanon and the uber patriots are reaching Glenn Beck levels of hyperventilation in their race to the bottom. Our friends on the right who have made careers out of

ROMNEY'S WALK

I've been trying to get a fix on Romney's walk. It's odd. All the locomotion is from the knees down. There's no movement in the hips and thighs. There's a guy in my building who aspires to be a stand-up comic. I told him that if he could master the Romney walk and gestures, he'd

IRRITANT

Ron Kessler writes books about the FBI, the CIA and the Secret Service. He's been on TV a bit since the prostitute scandal involving Service agents while on a Presidential trip. Two things come through in his TV interviews. First, he'll mention a dated book of his several times. Second, he's particularly peeved with the