The bizarre comments last week likening opponents of health-care reform to slavery advocates are understandable in at least one respect.
The speaker, Senate Majority Lea...
President Barack Obama held a jobs summit recently but made clear that he doesn't think he can find money for a major jobs bill.
It's a good thing for him, then, that th...
In proposing to spend billions of dollars to create jobs while also insisting that he's committed to slicing the federal deficit, President Barack Obama has created a cr...
Our favorite quote of the week comes from Democratic Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, who was asked about the hazy new deal on health care that was reached Tuesday by Dem...
WASHINGTON — One of the things that sets Barack Obama apart from most politicians is how much can be learned from listening to his speeches.
The president is sometimes c...
The public option in health care reform hasn't been tossed under the bus entirely, but it's teetering on the curb. As a compromise inches through the Senate, the option ...
WASHINGTON — After Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize speech, anyone still questioning whether he really is a Christian, rather than a Muslim aligned with fanaticism, need...
WASHINGTON — Finally, there is some good news on the health care front.
The headlines went to a possible compromise on the contentious issue of the public option, but th...
One of the great frustrations of the libertarian-minded right is how Republicans got stuck being "the party of big business."
The quotation marks around the term are at ...
They all laughed at Fulton and his steamboat,
Hershey and his chocolate bar . . .
— George Gershwin
WASHINGTON — And at Rep. Ron Paul, the 2008 presidential candida...
