I always stand up for strong women in high places. Ask anybody. Hillary Clinton, Janet Reno, Paula Dockery, Marion Hammer -- in times of adversity, I've gone to bat for all of them and more. But Mary Jane Saunders? Not in this lifetime.

There can be honest differences of opinion on many subjects. But there can also be dishonest differences.

Twenty years ago, NBC's "Today" devoted three days of interviews to the insufferable Kitty Kelley, who unspooled baseless allegations against Nancy Reagan, like her supposed love affair with Frank Sinatra.

"What difference, at this point, does it make?"

My iPhone buzzes on a regular basis with "news alerts" from Politico, The Hill and other sources.

WASHINGTON -- Mistakes were made.

President Obama's statement honoring Margaret Thatcher was an example of the chameleon-like nature of liberalism.

The striking juxtaposition of the preternaturally perfect Angelina Jolie, waifish and wispy in a ghostly gown, and the scrappy Pakistani schoolgirl Malala, her face cruelly misshapen by the effects of a Taliban bullet to the head, captures the confluence of feminine power assembled here to "lean on" the world to save women and girls.