Lately, Barack Obama has become everybody's favorite punching bag.

What's left of the Left are going after him for abandoning gun control in support of dubious Second Amendment rights, as well as his revised stance on FISA, newly-nuanced views on troop withdrawal in Iraq, and his desire to extend,...

Lately, talking heads and civic-minded folk have been concerned about how to gain energy independence, so we don't have to beg, borrow, or steal to fill our gas tanks.

Yes, and there are even some who recognize that energy comes in different forms besides petrol, and uranium, and contemplate how...

The way things have been shaping up, over the last couple of weeks, it looks like we no longer have a Republican party, or a Democratic party, we now have a Rapture party. And, the way things are going, instead of pledging allegiance facing a flag, we may soon be...

A jubilant, and optimistic bunch, after the high court's decision to strike down D.C.'s handgun ban, the National Rifle Association used what they say was a "very encouraging" ruling to suggest, in the words of the group's lawyer,C.D. Michel, that "it was just a start."

Proving that they don't...

Yesterday's Supreme Court decision striking down the Washington, D.C. handgun ban, in a 5-4 ruling, and affirming so-called Second Amendment rights was predictable, and comes no surprise. While the dissent, and dissenters, on the court were formidable, there was no wiggle room .

Now, if only the court were...

Now that it is painfully obvious to anyone that it's not just the Constitution this administration has taken it upon itself to rewrite but, in preparation for trials by federal judges in civilian courts, Justice Department attorneys now want to play script doctors, and revise evidence so that they can...

To John McCain, the future is nuclear. Should he win election, in November, the Arizona senator has another vision, for America , besides keeping U.S. forces in Iraq for the next hundred years. McCain plans to increase existing domestic nuclear reactors by 50%, or add another 45 new nuclear reactors...

(This is in response to a scathing editorial, last week, in a major Florida newspaper lambasting Rep. Robert Wexler, the congressman from Del Ray Beach)

Dear Editor:

Your June 12th editorial, in which you chastise Rep. Wexler for co-sponsoring 35 articles of impeachment, sent shock waves down my spine.

John McCain told a room full of small business owners the other day that Barack Obama is bad news for business. McCain even went so far as to criticize the Democratic party hopeful for being willing to reconsider NAFTA.

It's a good thing Senator McCain acknowledges that economics isn't...

Can't wait for the canary to sing, on the morning of June 20th, when Scott McClellan testifies before the House Judiciary Committee under oath, about what are "standard operating procedures' by George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and others, in a host of challenges to the First Amendment, due...

What might get lost in the ad nauseum mainstream media coverage of the gladiator-style struggle for the Democratic Party presidential nomination is what the Associated Press calls a "landmark treaty" which received a formal thumbs-up on Friday at a meeting, in Dublin, of more than 100 nations, including many of...

Everybody's putting in their two cents about former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan's new memoir, and what he has to say about the president who has become the country's favorite voodoo doll, George W. Bush.

McClellan's argument that, while the Bush administration lacked the necessary coordination to prevent...

So, as we all know by now, Rupert Murdoch came within inches of an outright endorsement of Barack Obama yesterday at the All Things Digital conference. Murdoch, the media tycoon, owner of Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, and poster boy for media consolidation, expresses concern...

In this week's issue of "The New Yorker," Jeffrey Toobin writes a compelling piece about the role of the next president in framing the composition, and ideological bent, of the Supreme Court.

I hope you have the chance to read Mr. Toobin's article in "The Talk of The Town"...

Now that we've figured out, six years into it, that the war in Iraq wasn't about fighting Al Qaeda, but straw men, it's time to turn our attention to the Senate who singlehandedly showed that the times they are indeed a changing this week..

And, despite the stalwart efforts of...

The news of Senator Ted Kennedy's diagnosis made it impossible for me, like many others, to think of little else yesterday.

And, while CNN blasted nonstop coverage of the Democratic primaries in Tennessee and Oregon, I found myself utterly distracted, and thinking -- clearly, some things are more important than...

For years, I've tried to stay out of any dialogue about the Middle East, mostly because, from what I can see, there has been no dialogue -- only an extended monologue.

For years, since my college days, I have endorsed a free, and autonomous, Palestine, and have described the second-class...

When the Oscars are handed out, next year, there needs to be a new category: "The Chutzpah Award," and the first recipient, that great friend to Hollywood, George W. Bush. Yes, in the category of most chutzpah, the Oscar goes to the president who, in an interview yesterday, had...

Last week, I wrote a piece that appeared about a harrowing experience that happened on a bus in a sleepy little town thirty miles outside of San Francisco.

Well, a glutton for punishment, I decided to take the same bus again, to see if I would see my friend...

Dear Attorney-General Mukasey:

It is my understanding that the government now plans to collect DNA from anyone who is arrested by federal law enforcement, and that the samples will be stored in an effort to reduce violence in society. Moreover, the U.S. government reportedly now intends to take a...