It is a fantastic parting statement from the Bush administration, an effort to codify the unwritten law that this presidency years ago proved -- that rich screw-ups are this nation's nobility.

It is also essentially an act of armed robbery on a previously unheard-of scale. If the American people don't...

Those of you in the blogosphere, on YouTube, and in the media rushing to "shame" John McCain for choosing an unqualified female running mate as merely some attempt to pander to Hillary Clinton voters, I have a suggestion. Stop. Now.

This widespread reaction to the selection of Governor Palin is...

Barring a huge upset, Hillary Clinton will win Pennsylvania tomorrow by about 5-10 points. The media will act surprised, Barack Obama's campaign will say she still can't win the nomination with pledged delegates, and no new points will be scored. Clinton will then lose North Carolina spectacularly, win Indiana narrowly...

Call me naïve, but until very recently I had been living under the impression that Wyoming, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Guam, Indiana, North Carolina, West Virginia, Kentucky, Oregon, Montana, South Dakota and Puerto Rico held primaries and caucuses so that they could have a voice in deciding their party nominees for president...

Though we're over four years removed from the spectacle that allowed Arnold Schwarzenegger to bypass the Republican primary and replace a sitting governor, the recall is still very much alive and well in California. We can't help it, really. No matter what the east coast snobbery may have led you...

In the closing days of the war for Iowa, the battle over health care rages on.

"It would be extremely unfair," Obama's health care advisers recently blasted, "to enact a mandate before we make health care affordable." Take that, Hillary, you dirty insurance-peddler!

"He's called his plan 'universal.'...

It must be great to be Mike Huckabee. He's the talk of the nation, he's arguably within striking distance of the Republican nomination, and his weight loss makes Jared the Subway guy look downright slothful. Not only that, but when he gets sick, he doesn't have to take all...

Has it already come to this? Mitt Romney told a crowd of New Hampshire supporters that, "One of the ways that you help instill, if you will, family values is by having [the] White House be a place that demonstrates family values... And, you know, I think during the...

You have to, er, hand it to Larry Craig. He found a way to milk homosexuality for all it's worth--if you happen to be a deeply closeted, anti-gay public figure: political gain and sexual gratification too. If only out gay Americans enjoyed the same kind of two-for-one deal.