The Alaska State Trooper at the center of Sarah Palin's so-called "Troopergate Scandal" has broken his more than year-long silence since his embattled divorce with Palin's sister.
We're in hard times, it's reasonable to expect that people will look for saviors and fantastical escapes -- be they in the form of vegetarian vampires or meat eating pseudo-author/pseudo-politicians.
If your family is as patriotic as mine, your Thanksgiving dinner ends like ours does: the women clear the dishes while the men loosen their pants, and the children make me recite passages from Republican political memoirs.
My favorite recovering felon, Martha Stewart, was asked her thoughts on our most recent political pin-up girl Sarah Palin. I wasn't surprised that Martha didn't pull any punches.
Maybe there was something about Ms. Palin that everyone had missed. Maybe the secret of her attraction would finally, suddenly, become dazzlingly clear to me.
If you're going to look for things to not like about the lady, find something other than her rouge and eye liner. You're simply barking up the wrong cosmetics counter.
Dynamic equilibrium was one of those concepts most of us learned to reduce to a formula in chemistry class. The proof formula was far too complicated...
"I have thankfulness that we live in a country where we have the freedom to speak, even though Todd has never done so actually."
Why is Thanksgiving on Thursdays? Aren't we supposed to "Thank God It's Friday"? Are we supposed to thank God twice in the same week? I think that's a...
Talking with Bill O'Reilly, conservative media commentator Bernard Goldberg offered the following account of why liberals have come to dislike Sarah P...
Palin's saying Obama wasn't acknowledging the sacrifices of our troops can mean only two things: either her mind exists on an entirely different planet, or she knows she's being completely disingenuous.
My Thanksgiving list this year includes Jane Goodall, who was interviewed by my colleague Bill Moyers for this week's edition of Bill Moyers Journal on PBS.
Now that Going Rogue is out, it's worth taking a look at the book that Ken Silverstein at Harper's says is "essential reading for all political junkies": I Am Martin Eisenstadt.
Losing your job is dreadful, no matter what the reason. In this journalist's mind, it is still better than health issues, divorce, or death -- but t...
We couldn't help but wonder if Sarah Palin were invited to the state dinner for the Indian PM... would she show up in a buckskin dress packing a quiver of arrows?
Name the last governor you know of -- ever -- who quit. At any time. Out of the blue, unprompted. Other than being appointed to a higher job...or indicted. Just quit.
When members of the House and Senate return home, they will probably face the wrath they did last summer in town hall meetings. It is not anger aimed towards one party, or one president.
Sarah Palin's rhetoric against the East and West Coast elites, and liberal media, appeals to aggrieved "ordinary Americans", in her phrase. Sounds like "the silent majority." Is this Nixon redux?
At the moment, Palin is touring the country to promote her book, which has a very large number of words in it, but not all of them are necessarily either true or kind.
Using his "latest-book" tour as the field test for a new identity, Beck proposes to transform himself into full-fledged political activist.
