I'm in trouble already. On a national television talk show, I referred to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Sen. John McCain's choice to be his running mate, as a nice "young lad...
"Sarah Palin... was elected Alaska's youngest and first woman governor in 2006. When she began her political career she was viewed as a rising Republican star but she wo...
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Tom Donilon, the Washington lawyer who did the delegate-counting for Jimmy Carter in 1980, has a bit of practical wisdom that he has offered over the y...
Let's face it. John McCain's a loner with a stern, "it's-a-dangerous-world" message and fairly cold eyes. He isn't charismatic. And no one can accuse him of being a sunn...
Don't take this personally, but plenty of Democrats and Republicans think Americans are pretty ignorant when it comes to oil.
The politicians realize that far too many A...
DENVER — The Democrats had themselves a successful convention last week — at the price of appearing quite conventional.
The delegates left here happy and enthused, belie...
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama is an immensely talented man whose talents have been largely devoted to crafting, and chronicling, his own life. Not things. Not ideas. Not ins...
"We must hang together, gentlemen," Benjamin Franklin warned his fellow colonists during the American Revolution, "else, we shall most assuredly hang separately."
In man...
The choice of Joe Biden as candidate for veep made me recall a conversation with him at the 2004 Democratic convention.
The Delaware senator was fuming that his party's ...
Election campaigns typically feature pontificating politicians flashing silver bullets to slay painlessly the nation's problems.
Just move some money from here to there,...
