Last week's tragic and destructive "Deepwater" oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico should be a reminder of more serious national issues. Given the massive amounts of public attention paid to our national energy dependency, one would think Americans by now would have a pretty sound understanding of the issues...

Journalist Roxana Saberi was released today after a month of captivity in an Iranian jail. But the timing and circumstances of her release show that it is purely President Mahmud "I'm-A-Dinner-Jacket" Ahmadinejad playing political games.

The Iranian-American journalist, who has dual citizenship, was arrested in April for trumped-up charges of...

November 2008 is just behind us, but the parties are both gearing up for what promises to be a critical midterm election in 2010. 34 Senators, 36 Governors, and all 435 members of the House will face re-election.

Traditionally, the party of the incumbent President loses seats in the midterm...

"If I'm corrupt, it's because I take care of my district."

-Rep. John Murtha (D-PA)
Quoted by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 29, 2009

Corruption: I'm sick of it, and I think the nation is too. Ever since we threw out the Republicans in 2006 for Abramoff and the...

How Bolivia's Evo Morales is South America's Future, and What America Should Do About It

In 2006, Bolivia elected Evo Morales its 80th President. Morales' victory, like Obama's, was historic: after four hundred years of colonial European rule, Morales was the first ever indigenous President. Immediately, the new president...