Least surprising news item of the week: former Department of Homeland Security director Tom Ridge's admission that he was pressured to raise the terror alert at the end of the 2004 campaign to help Bush win re-election. In his new book, Ridge says he felt the politically motivated manipulation was worth resigning over. But, of course, he didn't, saying nothing and staying on until after Bush won. Ridge thus joins the long line of key Bush administration officials who only come clean when it's time to cash in on their "honesty." Elsewhere, Bernie Madoff's mistress warmed the hearts of Freudians everywhere with her revelation that the famous felon "had a very small penis. Not only was it on the short side, it was small in circumference." Is that why he needed to sport the biggest Ponzi in history?
New Rule: If Mitt Romney, Karl Rove and Sarah Palin all think America has never done anything wrong, we must be doing something wrong.
We can spend our time working to win support for a positive vision of change, creating a stronger climate for President Obama and potential allies in Congress to rise to their best, or we can complain and attack.
It's finally clear that the stumbling block to successful health care reform has been definitively reduced to two words. They're not "public option" or "single payer," they're "Max Baucus."
I have two family members, one in America and one in England, each of whom has had a recent experience with the local health system. I offer their experiences for your consideration.
Sally Field is a talented actor. But what qualifies her to promote Boniva, an osteoporosis drug that is of limited benefit, has worrisome side effects, and for which there are natural alternatives that merit careful consideration?
In Thursday's Wall Street Journal, Rove says that I owe him an apology for allegations made about him regarding the U.S. Attorneys scandal. If anyone is owed an apology, it's the Journal's readers.
All of us who eat meat, attend rodeos, circuses, zoos and horse races and yet hand Michael Vick the bill for more systemic animal abuses in our society may find ourselves needing another chance one day, too.
The real war is not between the left and the right. It is between the average American and the ruling class. It's time we took back our government from those who would make us their slaves.
So sad today to read of the death of Don Hewitt, 86, the brains behind 60 Minutes.
I talked to him at length in 2006 and he was one of the most entertaining and sweet people I've interviewed.
I have never really had ill feelings towards Katy and I am happy to not be the "Kissed a Girl" girl anymore. But her teen fangirls portrayed me as an angry, jealous "gramma" starved for publicity.
In the Obama campaign, honest, effective framing was used with great success. But in the Obama administration, something has changed. It needs to change back.
A car that gets 230 miles to the gallon? It's coming soon to a dealer near you. And jobs in America making it all possible.
But even as he made this vow, Mr. Edwards said he would continue to sound the themes of his presidential campaigns: "There are two Americas, and I have children in each of them."
A question for the Democrats: How long can you keep getting outplayed by the Republicans, not deliver on your promises and continue to ask for our votes?
We have a Democratic president. Democrats control sixty votes in the Senate, enough to overcome a filibuster. Democrats control the House. So why does the fate of health care rest in Grassley's hands?
Schwarzenegger has always had contempt for the vulnerable, or maybe it's just his own inner girlie man he despises. But now he has gone too far.
I attended my local Tea Party the other day, and it clarified for me, well, nothing I didn't already know, or at least assume, or at least fear. The experience was, let us just say, disheartening.
