Sex, Fame Bring No Joy to Masters of Universe: Margaret Carlson Has there ever been a more vivid example than Bernard Madoff that English tailoring, a lifetime of ease and untold riches can’t save a man?

Adultery Finds a Pol on Hiking Trail of Life: Margaret Carlson So it turns out that after five days of playing “Where in the world is Mark Sanford?” we -- and his mystified wife -- learned that the 2012 Republican presidential aspirant and popular two-term governor of South Carolina wasn’t communing with nature in the mountains but with a longtime friend in South America.

Gods in White Coats Hold Key to Health Care: Margaret Carlson Give me your arm, make a fist, relax. This isn’t going to hurt.

Newt Takes Palin in Smackdown on Party Night: Margaret Carlson We celebrate success stories in America, but what we really love are stories with plot lines that rise and fall and rise again. The flawed hero who scales the heights only to plummet to earth like Roger Clemens knocked off his pedestal by steroids, or Liza Minnelli, after multiple stays in rehab, winning a Tony Award last Sunday.

Ruthless Wall Street Offers GM’s Only Hope: Margaret Carlson On Tuesday, a Chinese company, Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Co., announced plans to acquire the rights to the Hummer from General Motors Corp. It will keep the senior management and operational team.

‘Real Housewives’ of D.C. Can’t Beat C-SPAN: Margaret Carlson I have some bad news for Bravo, the cable channel that has had wild ratings success producing the “Real Wives of” series, first in Orange County, California, then Atlanta and New York City and now New Jersey.

Sotomayor Stokes Republican Identity Crisis: Margaret Carlson What’s a Republican to do? The president has gone and nominated a U.S. Supreme Court justice who was named to the federal bench by George H.W. Bush and twice approved by the Senate, has a movie-ready life story and even rescued America’s national pastime from a killer strike.

Obama-Lite Steele Fizzles as Republicans Fold: Margaret Carlson No matter who is the chairman of the Democratic Party, President Barack Obama is running the show. Not so in the Republican Party, where the chairman, Michael Steele, is the putative leader.

Bankers Should Shoot Craps in Vegas: Margaret Carlson (Update1) What happened in Washington yesterday stayed in Washington as Las Vegas came to dig itself out of the hole President Barack Obama dug for the city earlier this year.

Spitzer, Edwards, Palin Stay in Sex Spotlight: Margaret Carlson Political ambition is a bigger compulsion than sexual desire, a surprise for the evolutionist if not for most people.