By GREG MARKLEY One welcome aspect of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2001 (McCain-Feingold Act) was that candidates had to certify that no outside group was paying for an ad and hiding that fact. So they had to declare “I approved this message” usually at the...

By GREG MARKLEY In 2008, long-time New York Congressman Charles Rangel published a book titled “And I Haven’t Had a Bad Day Since: From the Streets of Harlem to the Halls of Congress.” He writes that after the bloody Battle of Kunu-ri in Korea in 1950 as a 20-year-old...

By GREG MARKLEY On  Oct. 3, 1993, I was in Hohenfels, Germany. We were in the “maneuver box” playing a war game. A crony of mine said: “This place is muddy, freezing, wet, full of snow and dark practically all day. That must be why they call it Hell.” A few...

By GREG MARKLEY Mary L. Trump, a niece of former president Donald Trump, exemplifies a relative who doesn’t agree with her famous relative on most issues. But she goes further, writing a book called "Too Much and Never Enough" about her uncle. She may be an effective...