No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time; and no Person holding any Office under the...

I saw on C-SPAN2 the speeches given after the vote to help GM and Chrysler failed. Senator McConnell said the the companies did it to themselves and had no one else to blame. I imagined the Senator at a dock from which some stranger falls into the water and can't...

I first heard McCain say "Drill, Drill, Drill" when pushing a campaign crowd to go along with his efforts to get off-shore oil drilling restrictions lifted. This rift was amended by a speaker at the RNC into "Drill, Baby, Drill". Sarah Palin "corrected" Joe Biden in their only debate when...

Back in the 1950s, I read an article in (I think) Esquire magazine written by an author, name unremembered, who invoked Einstein's name to support his thesis that a business could not be considered profitable if in the accounting process the negative destruction of the environment was not considered in...

The recently ended Democrat Party primary campaign was a failure of democracy. One side said the choice should not be made by Superdelegates overruling the voters but the chosen one was the pick of the Superdelegates. NOT amazingly, both sides claimed its candidate won the most votes. Addition and subtraction...

Hillary Clinton's comment about nuking Iran in retaliation if Iran attacked Israel with nuclear weapons has drawn derision from at least one well known liberal who I greatly admired.

Allow me to present a different prospective.

In the late 1940s, nuclear arsenals held by the USA and the USSR...

Rule Number One: The only vote that counts in determining who becomes President is the Electors tally in the Electoral College.

Rule Number Two: Do Not Forget Rule Number One.

Concerning Senator Obama: His supporters say he won more States -- True; he has more popular votes -- that might...

The stupidest statement I ever heard by an economist was made by Milton Friedman on a video tape shown on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer when that program reported the economist death.

You can watch the interview here -- and the statement I refer to is this answer...