Beverly Kelley

Democrats in Washington, D.C., are giving a whole new meaning to the Aesop maxim, "Once burned, twice shy." Because they failed to anticipate outside money tilting the scales toward Republicans two years ago, they lost control of the House. Now, ...

With the Democratic Party refusing to endorse a candidate and polls suggesting that no Democrat will come in second in the 26th Congressional District primary in Ventura County, I thought I might pay attention to the fireworks detonating in the ...

We can see the Arc de Triomphe from our hotel room at Le Bristol. The massive monument — 164 feet in height — stands at the heart of a plaza presently known as Place Charles de Gaulle and serves as ...

The most obnoxious door-to-door salesman I ever met was employed by the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He pressured a pregnant woman into purchasing an expensive 32-volume set of handsomely bound books by employing Leon Festinger's cognitive dissonance theory. Now wait, you're right. ...

Nobody ever accused Joe Biden of understatement. On March 23, 2010, as President Barack Obama affixed his signature to his hard-won health care law, the vice president gushed, "This is a big (expletive deleted) deal!"

Republicans seem to be in a funk these days. At a time when the GOP should be energized at the prospect of ousting a president who hasn't lived up to the hype, they are popping anti-depressants and moaning about cutting ...

Last week, despite the enormous strides being made by the rest of the world, the United States celebrated but another Presidents Day without a female president.

If you really want to learn the truth about world politics, sometimes your best bet is the sports pages. At least that was the case in 1988, when the USSR basketball team trounced the Americans in the semifinals at Seoul ...

Last month's announcement by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that the symbolic Doomsday Clock had jumped to 11:55 p.m. came and went with scant notice by the press.

Why does Stephen Colbert have a super PAC? According to the ersatz Republican with Mitt Romney-helmet hair and a Bill O'Reilly demeanor, "because I can and because it's funny."

As author Marian Robinson once wrote, "Nobody can go back and start a new beginning but anyone can start today and make a new ending." For those of you who made New Year's resolutions, today is the day that marks ...

Come Christmas morning, youngsters all over Ventura County will find age-appropriate versions stuffed in their holiday stockings.

Question: What was America's first college radio station? Stumped? I've taught the history of media for more than three decades and I had absolutely no idea — until I looked it up.

When you find yourself suddenly single, especially if you are solely responsible for your offspring, it's all about plotting a new and different course through life. The most challenging stretch of road, I believe, is that portion of pavement punctuated, ...

Joe Klein had 6 million reasons for passing himself off as Anonymous. You probably remember his 1996 roman à clef, "Primary Colors," the thinly veiled, warts-and-all account of William J. Clinton's 1992 bid for the Oval Office. This titillating tome, ...