"When I picked up my newspaper yesterday, I thought I woke up in France. But no, it turns out socialism is alive and well in America."
So said Republican Sen. Jim Bunnin...
Why isn't Obama further ahead?
Since he clinched the Democratic nomination last month, Barack Obama has consistently led John McCain in the polls. But his lead has been ...
A few fearmongers have predicted that the mortgage-related credit crunch of the last year might degenerate into a 1929-style financial debacle.
The collapse of Bear Stea...
With only six months left in office, President Bush has finally repealed presidential restrictions on oil drilling in American waters.
Now it's Congress' turn to do the ...
A crisis might be defined as a situation in which all the options are bad. That's the case with the mortgage market. The Bush administration's proposal to rescue two mor...
WASHINGTON — Last Wednesday morning, the Washington Post published a poll of registered voters giving Barack Obama an eight-point lead — largely because the voters said ...
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama wants to speak at the Brandenburg Gate. He figures it would be a nice backdrop. The supporting cast — a cheering audience and a few fainting fr...
When T. Boone Pickens talks about the need to find alternative energy sources, America's addiction to oil really has hit rock bottom.
Pickens, 80, is a rich and colorful...
You'd think it would be enough that U.S. forces are showing great progress bringing Shias, Sunnis and Kurds together. But no. They're bridging divisions at home, too, in...
Congress failed for years to heed warnings from leaders such as Florida Sen. Mel Martinez about the dangers that lax regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac posed to th...
