Barack Obama issued an "emergency economic plan" recently, followed by a big speech outlining an energy plan. For somebody identified as the "change" candidate, he serve...
John Edwards is done.
The pretty-boy candidate always was the biggest phony at any Democratic debate. He was the $400-haircut poster boy for poverty. The 28,000-square-f...
Whenever I hear the '08 presidential candidates voicing despair about the U.S. economy and talking about how they're going to cure its ills, I remember the gut wisdom of...
WASHINGTON — In the time they served together in the United States Senate, John McCain and Barack Obama developed neither a friendship nor an intense dislike. They enter...
WASHINGTON — Let's see: housing meltdown, credit crunch, oil shock not seen since the 1970s. The economy is slowing, unemployment growing and inflation increasing. It's ...
WASHINGTON — A year ago, it was impossible to get through a day without some mention of Paris Hilton — the ingenue famous mostly for being famous.
Oh, how we complained....
A recent Mayo Clinic study delivered a stunning finding: The incidence of a pre-Alzheimer's condition in those 70 and older may be more than twice as high as experts pre...
Earlier in the presidential campaign, when John McCain and Hillary Rodham Clinton called for a summer holiday on the 18.4-cent-per-gallon federal gasoline tax, Barack Ob...
WASHINGTON — The first question I asked John McCain and then Barack Obama was: How do you feel about the tone and direction of the campaign so far?
No surprise. Both men...
Some of my Chicago friends who support Sen. Barack Obama already are speaking as if his victory is a done deal. I hate to burst their bubbles, but a nagging question sti...
