This year, the Republican nominating contest has been the gift that keeps on giving. With Christmas and the Iowa Caucuses just around the corner, and since I was not raised by wolves, I know one should always say thank you after receiving a gift. In the spirit of the season,...

We are just weeks away from the first votes being cast in the race for the Republican presidential nomination -- which means it is only a matter of time before Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, and Jon Huntsman enter the ranks of presidential...

Conventional wisdom pushers and the beltway chattering class have been scrambling to explain the crushing defeat Republicans suffered in last night's off-year election.

To hear them spin it, Republicans lost because they "overreached." The GOP went too far, they say.

Ridiculous.

Let me say this is as clearly and as...

If you haven't yet heard, the so-called "liberal media" is out to get Herman Cain.

To believe conservatives, members of a "liberal media" cabal began conspiring to take down the former CEO of Godfather's Pizza more than a decade ago when he was head lobbyist at the National Restaurant...

Every year at about this time, I break out my DVD of the 1936 anti-drug propaganda flick Reefer Madness. No it's not exactly the scariest movie one might choose when getting into the Halloween spirit, but few things are funnier than watching a film made more than 70 years...

Dear Republican Also-Rans:

It is time to give it up.

You will not be the Republican nominee next year. You will never be Commander-in-chief. You will never deliver a State of Union address. You will never call 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue "home." Your wives, or husband in the case of Michele...

The 1956 Broadway classic My Fair Lady tells the story of lowly Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle who embarks on a mission to pass as a proper English lady with the help of professor Henry Higgins, a speech therapist.

Higgins does help Doolittle transform. But in the end, we...

A virus has taken hold within the modern conservative movement. No one knows for sure what has caused this plague but many believe it is transmitted through close contact at boisterous tea parties.

The most obvious, visible symptom is the incessant need to refer to oneself as a "constitutional conservative."

"I can't trust Obama. I have read about him and he's not, he's not, uh, he's an Arab."

Those words, spoken by an elderly woman on microphone steps from Senator John McCain during a campaign rally, were among the defining moments of the 2008 election, which was plagued...

Apparently the president started another war on Monday and it has Republicans playing the role of hippy peacenik -- not to offend hippy peaceniks.

This isn't a war of bullets, missiles, known knowns or known unknowns. It is a war of words. Well, two words to be exact.

Class...

"Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night, stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds," reads the unofficial motto of the United States Postal Service.

I guess no one ever thought it would be the Republican Party finishing off the Postal Service when...

At this Wednesday night's debate between 2012 Republican White House hopefuls at the Reagan Presidential Library, the former movie actor and president was name-dropped like a top Hollywood agent during awards season.

I guess you could say the endless Reagan-worshiping is the modern GOP equivalent of praying to a...

You've got to hand it to the Republicans. They're doing a heckuva job when it comes to their political posturing on emergency response and disaster preparedness. You know, like Michael "Heckuva Job" Brownie" did as George W. Bush's FEMA chief during Hurricane Katrina.

At least Brownie had an excuse....

Earlier this summer, Michele Bachmann took to an outdoor podium in front of her "friends and family" and entered the race for president, telling those assembled, "It's great to be in Iowa and even better to be in Waterloo where I was born."

The fact that Bachmann was...

He has the Tea Party charisma of Sarah Palin, the thoughtless Lone Star swagger of George W. Bush, and the secessional political instincts of Jefferson Davis. Meet the man who very well could be the GOP standard bearer for president in 2012: Governor Rick Perry of Texas.

Before much of...

For much of the last century it was common practice across the southern United States for politicians to impose poll taxes, literacy tests, and other absurd laws designed to keep African Americans, Native Americans and poor whites -- all legal citizens -- from voting. That was life under Jim...

Remember the collective sense of loss and outrage we all felt in 1999 after the Columbine High School shootings that claimed the lives of twelve students and one teacher?

Those same emotions have settled upon the people of Norway.

Just hours after a bomb blast tore through a...

Rupert Murdoch's long history of journalistic malpractice and hubris has finally caught up with him.

The ongoing scandal surrounding the widespread phone hacking of thousands -- including royals, celebrities, slain soldiers, victims of the horrific 2005 terrorist subway bombing, and even a murdered child -- by his since-shuttered...

There really is nothing worse than a deadbeat father who has the means but just won't pay his court-ordered child support.

So, what can be said of a Congress that has the means but just won't meet the financial commitments it's made?

Over the July Fourth holiday, it was

You've got to hand it to former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. What he lacks in consistency and charisma as the 2012 Republican presidential frontrunner, he makes up for with stunning political awkwardness.

Don't blame Mitt though -- the modern Republican presidential nominating process is rarely, if ever, exciting. Sure...