Barack Obama is like a shot of Botox. Support him, and you take 10 years off your face. You join the cool crowd. You become one with idealistic kids and Hollywood glitte...
WASHINGTON — One way of measuring the current miserable state of the Republican Party is to note that in the past 10 weeks, 55 years of Republican seniority in the House...
What will it take to pierce the thick-as-cornhusk shield of the farm lobby?
Farmers are enjoying record-high prices for crops. Farm income has risen 56 percent over the ...
WASHINGTON — Well, at least they didn't kiss.
I was bracing myself for the lip lock Wednesday when John Edwards endorsed Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nom...
BILOXI, Miss. — Ten years ago, when I was in college, the United States had a glorious economy, gas was pretty cheap, and because the American dollar stomped the Canadia...
What could you buy with $6 billion? You could finally rebuild the New Orleans neighborhoods that Hurricane Katrina destroyed. For almost six years, you could provide a d...
In 1940, during the Battle of Britain, Prime Minister Winston Churchill celebrated the daring crews of the Royal Air Force with stirring words: "Never in the field of hu...
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama really didn't need a victory in West Virginia. He was already well on his way to wrapping up the Democratic nomination, and the 28 delegates at...
The 'guns, God and gays' trope has haunted Democrats, and Republicans have enjoyed dusting it off when needed to rile the locals. It's an easy play.
But so-called 'ordin...
Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating solutions to problems they created in the first place. Politicians and a large percentage of the pu...
