We knew it was coming, but who thought it would taste this good? Herman Cain had implosion written all over him after peaking in the Iowa polls, but now it's an all-you-can-eat buffet at the Georgia godfather's campaign.

Herman Cain--gospel-singing, self-made millionaire, top Republican candidate in Christian conservative Iowa--turns out...

To all you folks filling the nation's cities for the "Occupy" movement, here's the best political advice from a living civil rights legend: "Sometimes, you just have to get in the way."

That's what Rep. John Lewis, (D-Ga.) told me in an interview several years ago, when few thought...

Forgive me for being underwhelmed by the president's jobs speech this week, but I've got other things on my mind. It's the 10th anniversary of 9/11, and I'm watching every TV special I can. Besides, if the prez has waited this long to focus on job creation, how important can...

Watch out for Rick Perry, governor of Texas and the latest contender for the Republican presidential nomination. He's the macho male to Obama's metrosexual. The hot branding iron to Obama's cool. Notice how Perry is snapping a salute at his campaign speeches. It's like he's already commander-in-chief.

Chris Matthews of...

The president and the first lady looked so happy at the White House's Fourth of July celebration with military families. Happier than they've both looked in a long while. The president had his sparkling, Cheshire-cat grin full-on for the cameras. Like he knew something we didn't know. Like he looked...

Finally, President Obama has released the long-form birth certificate he should have produced at least two years ago, if not before. His failure to do so indicates an arrogance about his accountability to the voters that saddens me.

I never doubted that the president was born in Hawaii, and I...

With all the lip-service being paid to the Constitution these days, you'd think unions would get a bit more respect. Without the sacrifices of union activists, the Constitution's promise of free speech might never have become a reality.

In rallies much like those currently being held in Wisconsin, and across...

On September 17th, our nation celebrates Constitution Day, which marks the anniversary of its signing in Philadelphia by 39 of the 55 men who helped draft it. For decades the date passed unremarked until the late Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia sponsored legislation requiring all recipients of federal funds...

As the wife of a 9/11 survivor, I found Monday's speech by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf at the Council on Foreign Relations to be deeply disturbing. Not because he proposes to build an Islamic Center or mosque near the Ground Zero site of the attacks in New York City. As...

Almost exactly a year ago, President Obama uttered these memorable words:

"There's something about August going into September where everybody in Washington gets all wee-weed up."

He was talking about fears that his health care bill would not pass both the House and the Senate. Turns out, those fears...

Insubordination, dude.

General Stanley McChrystal's special ops mentality, which can tolerate loose structure within a fighting "band of brothers," got a big jerk on the chain from the real top dog today.

Score one for the Commander in Chief. Zip for "Team America," the moniker borrowed from "South Park"...

I saw Al and Tipper Gore together in person once, up close. I stood for an hour in a long, snaking line to get signed copies of their two new books, The Spirit of Family and Joined at the Heart. It was 2002, and I was crying as I waited,...

Rule Number One: When reporting a political story that may involve criminal conduct, read the relevant law first.

Leading media outlets have stated flat-out that there was nothing illegal about White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel asking former president Bill Clinton to offer Rep. Joe Sestak a position...

It's not a spill, it's a crime scene.

A spill is not something you cry over, remember? So perhaps the reason Americans are slow to react to the magnitude of the Gulf oil catastrophe is that we're not using the right language.

A spill is an accident. This is a...

As wave after wave of black crude washes ashore in Louisiana, the stench of death follows. It is a smell familiar to the people of New Orleans and South Louisiana, five years after Katrina. But this time the air of defeat is the most crushing blow, a deflation of the...

Democrats just love Haley Barbour -- Republican governor of Mississippi, current president of the Republican Governors Association, and former head of the RNC. He's the gift that keeps on givin.'

The latest Barbourism: "I think the most important thing is for people not to panic and not to assume the...

The progressive blogosphere is on fire about Elena Kagan. Viewed as Obama's likely Supreme Court nominee, the current Solicitor General and former Dean of Harvard Law School is being raked over the coals about her lack of a paper trail and coziness with conservatives. Salon's Glenn Greenwald leads...

Why progressives aren't cheering for Solicitor General Elena Kagan as President Obama's next nominee for the Supreme Court is an enigma, wrapped in a mystery. She's got just the personality, intelligence, and experience to shape the Court for decades, at a time when the legislative agenda of the president is...

You know things are really getting weird when Newt Gingrich's former press secretary compares the president's health insurance reform to the Kansas-Nebraska Act. So how long will it be until Tony Blankley belts out a chorus of "Marching Through Georgia"? Bleeding Kansas, anyone?

That the cause of abolition is being...

President Obama summed up the health care debate best on Friday when he told the throng at George Mason University: "It's a debate about the character of our country -- about whether we can still meet the challenges of our time, whether we still have the guts and courage to...