It should have come as no surprise to anyone who has watched Sarah Palin's erratic and dysfunctional behavior over the past four-and-a-half years that when it comes to Republican Party loyalty, she has none.

Zero. She loves to eat her own.

Indeed, throughout most of her political career -- from...

There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By politicians who moil for graft;
The Juneau jails have their secret tales
That would make you burn in the ass;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,

I confess to never having been much of a Maureen Dowd fan. The breezy, cynical, name-dropping style has never worked for me.

I'm a few years younger than Dowd and came of age when the hard-hitting journalists of the '60s were in their heyday -- Hunter S. Thompson, Joan...

In case anyone hasn't noticed, Arizona Senator John McCain has been making a fool of himself lately, on a weekly if not daily basis, his rants seeming to be fueled by an unhealthy mix of anger and envy, with not insignificant hints of racism and misogyny thrown in...

The seamy revelations now engulfing former CIA Director David Petraeus and General John Allen, commander of U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan, will no doubt garner center stage in the nation's capital for weeks, if not months, to come. President Obama needs not only to fill...

On the eve of last Tuesday's national election, I forced myself to do something I hadn't done during the entire presidential campaign: I watched Fox News.

I was astonished. I had kept close tabs on all of the major aggregate polling data, as well as paying close attention to gambling...

I forced myself to watch Fox News last night just to get a sense of how the real 47 percenters view the world (47 percent being just about the number that Mitt Romney will poll nationally today), and was only wishing I could get some serious wagers down with the...

Rather than make a contribution to the Romney-Ryan ticket when it mattered earlier in the 2012 campaign, Sarah Palin's political action committee made a last-minute $5,000 contribution this week in what was obviously an attempt to call attention to Palin rather than to aid the final Romney campaign...

As Mitt Romney tries to redraw himself as a moderate in the final days of his Etch-A-Sketch candidacy, some troubling stories from his career as a Mormon leader outside of Boston can't be erased. In this excerpt from an investigative report for Metro Silicon Valley, award-winning journalist

Two weeks ago, conservative columnist Mark Steyn linked me to the likes of MSNBC's Chris Matthews and Lawrence O'Donnell for comments the three of us made about the demographics -- and the racial messaging -- at the Republican National Convention in Tampa.

After strangely starting out with a...

Over the past four years, The New York Times' Nate Silver has become something of an ascendant star in cyber space. In 2009, Time magazine named him one of "The World's 100 Most Influential People" for his website FiveThirtyEight.com, which, of course, was picked up by the Times...

Sources have confirmed that "Dirty Harry" himself, Clint Eastwood, is about to sweep into the Sunshine State to serve as the so-called "Mystery Speaker" tonight at the Republican Snooze Fest--better known as the Gathering of Pasty White People--in Tampa.

Eastwood's announcement earlier this summer that he was endorsing...

Last week, during the women's gymnastics qualifying competition of the 30th Olympiad in London, my wife and I watched with a combination of horror and incredulity as the parents of U.S. Olympian Aly Raisman went through a series of grotesque, seemingly maniacal contortions during their 18-year-old daughter's performance...

As GOP standard bearer Mitt Romney stumbles his way back to the campaign trail following a disastrous European summer vacation, the energy surrounding his vice-presidential nominee has turned into, well, a tepid buzz. His senior advisor in charge of the selection process, Beth Myers, teased the chattering class...

Anyone who says they know with certainty who Mitt Romney's choice for the Republican vice-presidential nominee will be is either lying or delusional. A source "close to the Romney camp" told me that a decision "has yet to be reached" (this was confirmed by Ann Romney earlier this...

Over the past several months, former Alaska governor and Fox News commentator Sarah Palin has been making a variety of references to "crony capitalism," which she has defined, rather loosely, as "the growing collaboration between big business, big finance, big government and big union bosses." Later on she characterized it...

According to sworn testimony Thursday during federal court proceedings in Alaska, two close associates of former Governor Sarah Palin -- Joe Miller, a staunch political ally of Palin's whom she supported in his failed bid for the U.S. Senate; and Palin's former director of boards and commissions Frank...

Sarah Palin has disgraced herself yet again, this time by attempting to politicize the Secret Service prostitution scandal that rocked President Obama's recent trip to Colombia. Palin stooped so low -- even for her -- to attach a remark about President Obama eating "dog...

Sarah Palin has apparently fooled another foreigner, this time a young British historian, Timothy Stanley, who can't quite see the American political landscape from his ivory tower at Oxford University.

In an "opinion piece" appearing at CNN.com (actually it borders more on phantasma), Stanley has rather...

Much ado has been made about Sarah Palin going one-on-one Tuesday against former CBS new anchor Katie Couric on "Today" and "Good Morning America," respectively. In this exclusive excerpt from Geoffrey Dunn's bestselling The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for...