We have been through a period where we see power leaching away from Washington. Who is more important in the world today: Bill Clinton or Bill Gates? I don't know.

It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Roosevelt did, as John F. Kennedy did, as Ronald Reagan did.

Reach out, call your family members, if you have children, call them right now.

A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.

Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.

And once again the government has failed to get the kind of cooperation from the relatives that might allow the case of this young boy to end in a civilized manner that is best for him.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.