"It's tough to make predictions," observed Yogi Berra, "particularly about the future." How many people thought, two years ago, that a half-black freshman senator with the crippling political name of Barack ...
Last year's Lake Wobegon Fourth of July had been glory itself, with a battery of cannons and Miss Liberty majestic in seven-pointed crown, but the next day everyone grumped about why the tractors had been ...