A Democratic president who won on a promise to rescind the Bush tax cuts is now pushing to extend them. This, despite the fact that to stop them, all Democrats had to do was pass nothing.

Whereas politicians have a vested interest in making themselves look good, lobbyists jealously represent Big Money, without regard for partisanship or electoral maneuvering.

By championing upper-income tax cuts that he said he would fight tooth and nail to oppose and by pushing the kind of NAFTA-style trade deal he said he would work to reform, we now know whose side Obama is on. Not ours.

I just received a press release from the White House citing a pro-tax cut memo from Morgan Stanley as reason for Congress to pass the Bush tax cuts. Let's step back and chronicle just how audacious this really is.

The mandate to buy insurance was always a huge giveaway to the private insurers. It guarantees them a pool of customers that will pad their profits for eternity, thus solidifying private insurance's position in the health care system.

During the recent fight over extending unemployment benefits, conservatives trotted out the shibboleth that says the program fosters sloth. Sen. Ju...

As trivial as Ghostbusters and G.I. Joe may seem, those 80s archetypes in film, tv, video games, toys, commercials, sports and music made a lasting imprint that shapes the most serious political debates of the day.

If you've turned on the tube these last few weeks, you've probably been a collateral casualty of the biggest televisual war of attrition in recent mem...