If a politician is listening to a "special interest group," and is doing what they request, does that mean that he's their "captive"? Or, rather, does it mean that he is performing his Constitutional duty of listening to the grievances of a group of hi...

Thanks to the superdelegates, Barack Obama could win the popular electoral vote fair and square, and still lose at the convention.

Yesterday would have been Reagan's 97th birthday; and so we ask, does anyone wear Reagan's mantle today?

In many ways, Martin Luther King was a good man - certainly a highly intelligent man. Well read, well spoken, influential well beyond his life. But equal to all the Presidents of the nation?

The Vice President will be leaving a slimy, black legacy.

The conservatives have rightly complained about the fiasco that was the CNN/YouTube debate, to say nothing of Chris Matthews' execrable moderating. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and it doesn't fit any better on that side.

With fifty states in the union, we have fifty different laboratories in which to test different approaches to a problem.

Don't regulate campaign finance; just require disclosure.

Can we have a little dignity please?

Having been put on the scent, the blogosphere discovered that this was only the tip of the iceberg.