Polls now show that Sarah Palin is in a dead heat with President Obama in popularity. The even more miraculous thing is that she's sprinting up, whi...
Health care reform suffered the torments of partisan obstruction. Now gird yourself for financial reform and the perils of bipartisan blight.
Irrevocably, politics changed in the past 10 years because of technology in general and the Internet in particular. So here, in no particular order, are the decade's top moments in tech and politics.
Populism is not so much a political stance (as "conservatism" is, for instance) as it is a political tactic. Meaning it can be used equally well by either side of our current American political divide.
It didn't take long for anti-terrorism hawks from Joe Lieberman to GOP congresspersons to dump the lax security, terrorist watch breach, and faulty al Qaeda intelligence on President Obama.
Welcome once again to our year-end wrap-up and awards ceremony. Honesty dictates that I immediately genuflect to The McLaughlin Group, from whom I have stolen all these award categories.
More than a decade ago, President Clinton pledged that every person in America would soon be able to go online "to order up every movie ever produced or every symphony ever created in a minute's time."
Just when Barack Obama thought his toughest decisions were behind him--his Afghanistan strategy, tackling unemployment, what to say to Tiger Woods i...
Talk of a Hayworth-McCain primary began in mid November when a Rasmussen poll showed Hayworth to be in a statistical dead heat with McCain in a hypothetical race for senate.
The U.S. Senate clock neared 1 a. m. when the roll call ended on December 18. The vote was 63-33 to end debate on a large military appropriations bill...
We could use some banks with glass walls... Banks that don't operate like black boxes and put the entire economic system at risk with their risky trading ventures.
It's a shame that the most important piece of the Democratic agenda has been hijacked by a member of the Democratic Caucus representing a solidly Democratic state, but it's not surprising.
Time then moves ahead, and alas, our sporting President has moved on to bigger issues than pickup ball.
What Did You Learn in 2009? Test your knowledge by answering these objectively scientific questions about the celebrities, politicians and fifteen minute famers who made headlines.
Only a few months ago, the youth of America was preaching that the country was uniting and would move beyond the old battles. Well, do you hear the ring of the alarm clock? The dream is over.
From misleading statement to misleading statement, McCain has worked through skewed and downright deceptive talking points on the Senate floor.
How did former Governor-turned-Attorney General Jerry Brown clear the Democratic field for governor of California over half a year before next year's primary election?
Watching Sarah Palin in a recent interview attempting to explain to Bill O'Reilly why she possesses the intelligence to be president, I got an eerie s...
We don't have to imagine how mad, furious, angry, unhappy, livid, incensed and pissed off some Republicans are right now. More mad than they've ever, ever been in their life.
Is a graceful withdrawal and a less unstable puppet government worth more American lives? Are those lives really worth that "success"?
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium Blogger The Senate is scheduled to begin voting on proposed amendments to the health care reform bill today. ...
