Mary Lou Forbes passed away June 27.

She was my very first newspaper commentary editor.

She had taken over the Commentary section of The Washington Times in 1982, and she was kind enough to begin running pieces under my byline in 1986, courtesy of the op-ed marketing team at The Heritage Foundation.

Mark Sanford isn't the first major American politician to become entangled with an "exotic" Argentine woman.

On October 7, 1974, two U.S. Park Police patrolmen pulled over a limousine at 2 AM. The car had been barreling down Independence Avenue, between the Jefferson Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial, at 80 miles per hour with its headlights off.

Inside, they found a powerful member of Congress, a man who just two years earlier had competed for the Democratic nomination for the presidency -- Rep. Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.