WASHINGTON — If Bill Clinton was our first black president, as Toni Morrison once proclaimed, then Barack Obama might be our first woman president.
Phew. That was fun. N...
For the second time in four years, a president has asked Gen. David Petraeus to ride to the rescue.
Having sacked Gen. Stanley McChrystal for disrespectful behavior, Pre...
Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed HR5175, also known as the Disclose Act, by a 219-206 vote. "Disclose," you see, is an acronym for "Democracy Is Stren...
Before Faisal Shahzad pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in New York, a U.S. marshal removed his handcuffs.
When Faisal Shahzad pleaded guilty to attempting to kill w...
In recent days, two House Republicans provided a preview of what life might be like for President Barack Obama if their party wins control in November's midterm congress...
When President Obama imposed a six-month moratorium on deep-water drilling, his primary concern was safety. When a U.S. District judge in Louisiana overturned that ban T...
I feel sorry for Stan McChrystal. He got sacked because his aides were too honest with a Rolling Stone reporter. They rashly exposed a problem that is undercutting the w...
When the Senate voted last week on whether its latest jobs bill would move forward, one Democrat, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, broke ranks and stood with Republicans to block...
WASHINGTON — Two departures from the Obama administration go a long way toward illuminating what is important — and what is not — in determining its political fate.
The ...
It's not every day that President Barack Obama and the Congress are handed an easy campaign issue by the Supreme Court on the touchy subject of political corruption.
And...