Personally, I couldn't care less about the personal "antics" of so many politicians these days. It's not really important to my life how people like South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford characterizes "adventure travel."

What does bother me a lot, though, is the money shot we...

"Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see."

That's what Supreme Court nominee and federal court judge Sonia Sotomayor has said in the past about how individual experience comes into play when deciding cases and looking at the law.

Many conservatives are afraid of that approach...

As many news reports have pointed out, the world is going gaga for Michelle Obama and this time it's about more than her J. Crew cardigans. Girls are listening with rapt attention to her working-class story that reporters are calling "extraordinary."

While it's great that people are paying...

I really try to save my blogging for more political things, but sometimes I have to speak up when the media get out of control...

You're not going to find me talking about uber-conservative Elisabeth Hasselbeck much at my blog, PunditMom. We don't exactly see eye-to-eye on anything in the political realm!

But I thought it was interesting that high profile mom Hasselbeck announced recently on The View that she has taken advantage...

I don't practice law anymore, but after having contract law in my head for over 15 years, there are still a few tidbits bouncing around in there. Maybe I'd be better off if that wasn't the case, because then this whole crapola story about AIG not being able to get...

No, not earwigs. Or ear worms.

Earmarks.

Senator John McCain is really rattling the cage this week about "earmarks" -- those special requests in the federal budget that allow lawmakers to get a few hundreds of thousands, or millions, of dollars here or there for pet projects...

Who are the ten most influential people on Twitter -- the social media/micro-blogging service -- in Washington, D.C.? Top ten lists are always fun, but they're not always accurate.

D.C.'s wonky newspaper Politico announced its list of top ten "twitterers" (I'd suggest the term "tweeters") and I'm afraid I...

I am weary of the Nadya Suleman coverage. The tiny octuplets. 14 kids altogether. Unemployed mom. Not to mention that whole sort of looking like Angelina Jolie thing.

But one aspect of this baby circus is worth talking about -- the fertility industry. Yes --...

As so many women have been basking in the glow of the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the news reports reminded us that even though Lilly has become a standard bearer for the fight for fair pay for women, Lilly herself will never see a nickel of...

So the very high profile bid for the spot of junior U.S. Senator from New York for Caroline Kennedy is over, and it did not end in a pretty way. She announced last week she was withdrawing her name for "personal reasons" after the rumors started swirling that she...

I know that asking you to access the brain cells that remember who Kimba Wood And Zoe Baird are might be a bit of a challenge. Their names haven't really been in the news for about 15 years. And, heck, sometimes I can't even find the brain cells...

My question of the day is, "Why is Congress having hearings to investigate the Securities and Exchange Commission?" If it's looking for the real culprit to blame in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme, Congress needs only to look in its collective mirror.

Happy and merry whatever you celebrate! And I will never reveal...

Rick Warren has gotten more than his share of attention over the last week since Barack Obama announced that he would give the invocation at the inauguration. Not surprisingly, this has spurred a lot of conversation about whether Obama is just trying to be inclusive of those who opposed him...

Barack Obama seems to be working overtime to come up with a plan to keep our economy from completely going in the tank.

He's given...

I'm not an economist, and I don't play one on TV. But regardless of what the likes of Senator Saxby Chambliss and George Will have to say, it's clear we are still on a downward trend with the economy, and no one can see the bottom of that...

I can't imagine being in Hillary Clinton's shoes right about now.

At her news conference last week, she really did look like the cat that swallowed the canary when asked about the reports that Barack Obama was considering her to be his Secretary of State.

If offered, would she dare...

No, I did not suffer a severe head injury or have a GOP epiphany since yesterday. My progressive bona fides are very much intact, thanks...

This morning when PunditGirl woke up, her eyes half open and still sleepy, snuggled under the covers, she quietly asked in her groggy morning voice,...