Barack Obama is a magician.
He could tell me it's raining on a sunny day, and I'd grab an umbrella. He could tell me the moon is the sun, and I'd reach for my shades.
He...
Any realistic scenario in which Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton wins the Democratic presidential nomination assumes that the party bosses will have both the will and the pow...
WASHINGTON — It was sheer coincidence that David M. Walker spent his last day Wednesday as comptroller general of the United States at the same time that the House and S...
WASHINGTON — Elections can be about policy, personality or identity. The race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is surely not about policy. The differences betwee...
WASHINGTON — The swift fall of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer for patronizing a high-priced prostitution ring of the sort he once won fame for prosecuting leaves him unique...
Just once, I'd like to see a politician caught with his pants down (so to speak) not trot out his wronged wife to stand beside him as he issues his mea culpa. I'd like t...
WASHINGTON — One of the great surprises of my first presidential campaign, back in 1960, came on the final morning of the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. ...
The level of fear and loathing in the U.S. Senate about the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea has little to do with the facts. It's akin to the black-helic...
You've got to give Howard Dean credit for chutzpah if nothing else.
But he might want to wonder if the White House is worth fighting with your own folks over a few (mill...
The Bush administration scared Congress and the American people into accepting the invasion of Iraq. What's really scary, as the fifth anniversary approaches this month,...
