Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

I'm not trying to induce an acid flashback to John Lennon's infamous 1966 comment, "The Beatles are more popular than Jesus." But whether you measure fame in terms of saturation or sheer numbers, it seems indisputable...

"Not again!" I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right.

Don't get me...

Clearly, there's a lot that Barack Obama doesn't understand. For instance, he thinks there might be strategies for weaning the nation from foreign oil that don't involve more profit for American oil companies. He thinks conservation might be part of the answer. To quote Barack's good friend Paris: "As if."

Hillary Clinton's comments on Friday -- invoking Bobby Kennedy's assassination after the California primary in 1968 to shore up her argument that Democratic primaries are often unresolved in June -- were bone-headed on two scores.

First, the obvious. The analogy was in such poor taste that it, predictably, caused...

With results in Indiana and North Carolina showing that Hillary Clinton wasn't going to beat expectations, her increasingly audacious campaign attempted a stunning political sleight of hand. They simply declared that the magic number--the combined pledged and super delegates needed to win the Democratic nomination--had changed. No longer would it...

Fuzzy math--that staple of previous presidential campaigns--is back. And this time, it has mostly to do with the Clinton campaign's methodology for counting delegates and votes.

In recent weeks, the Clintonites have argued that the race is a dead heat if you count only the states that have held primaries,...