According to beltway chatter, one of the Republican governors supporting Romney will be his VP pick.

If so, the Republican ticket will go down in flames. Already, and for good reason, President Obama leads all his Republican rivals on foreign policy and combatting terrorism.

Mitt Romney has...

The right-wing states it in any number of different ways. Sometimes they claim that "Obama did not cause the recession, but he made it worse". On other occasions he is the "food-stamp president". Other times they claim that the stimulus program did not create a single job. Alternatively, they try...

In an election eve coup d'états, former Speaker and access capitalist Newt Gingrich has received the endorsement of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, shaking up the entire contest and rendering the outcome uncertain.

"God told him to run for president, and who are we to second-guess it? Speaker Gingrich's life...

War and peace, the Supreme Court, the middle class vs. the 1%, the social safety net, the economy, tax policy, education, the environment, R&D investments... these are all critical matters that demand our attention, our considered judgment, and our votes in the election cycle.

Potentially frightening as these are in...

Amidst all the irrelevancies of the Republican presidential candidates' debates, the president can easily distinguish himself as our nation's leader.

Without trying to wordsmith his address, I would like to strongly suggest several elements that he might not otherwise include.

Near the beginning of his speech, and as the first...

In a Republican primary, Mitt Romney cannot admit that he speaks French, otherwise those voters would reject him because he might introduce "European" ideas into American culture. For a party that bases a large part of its appeal by fostering fear that the country's original (excluding, of course, the Native...

"When you've got them by their balls, their hearts and minds will follow" -- Chuck Colson, convicted Watergate criminal, Special Counsel to President Nixon.

Jim DeMint (R-SC) seems surprisingly sanguine over a Romney nomination and presidency. Whether it is gay marriage, abortion, gutting medicare/Medicaid/social security, taxes, preventing any infrastructure spending,...

In a message intercepted by the national security agency, God told Tim Tebow that he was so busy this weekend talking to his people in Texas deciding who, among those he had told to run, should be the Republican presidential candidate that he just confused "Tom" with "Tim".

"Tim, it...

Willard Mitt Romney's major claim to the presidency is that, as an experienced, successful businessman, he knows how to create jobs as chief executive. This has prompted close scrutiny of his business, Bain Capital.

That focus misses the larger point: whatever his Bain experience was, Romney's job creation record as...

God, we were led to believe, spoke to Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum and, yes, even serial liar and philanderer Newt Gingrich, and told each of them to run for President of the United States. God's ways are, of course, mysterious, so it was never adequately explained why he...

Curiouser and curiouser.

Virginia Law sets the conditions for candidates to get on the Virginia primary ballot. The law has been on the books for years.

Now come Gingrich, Santorum, Perry and Bachmann -- who did not bother to learn about the law asking, gasp! -- asking a judge to...

Let me state in no uncertain terms that I consider Rick Santorum to be as crazy, dangerous and misguided as any of them.

But, if he does very well in Iowa, I plan to send him money, and suggest that millions of others do too.

Why?

Because the country desperately...

One way to avoid discussing a key issue for Iowa voters is to make such over-the-top statements about other matters that the issue is never joined.

Republicans seem to have succeeded. In the circus masquerading as the Republican Iowa caucus, there has been nary a word about ethanol subsidies, a...

"A lie is halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes."
--Mark Twain

Like all years, 2011 was chock-full of political lies providing an embarrassment of riches for professional lie-ratings groups on the one hand, but also the terrible burden of choosing the top...

Before support for Gingrich coalesces, the other Republican candidates need to bring his campaign down to earth. He has no business being where he is in the polls, but the others have yet to mount an effective counter.

Here is how they do it.

Gingrich has many major vulnerabilities for...

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse--Adlai Stevenson

DC talking heads have come close, but have not quite grasped the disgraced Newt Gingrich's essential character.

George Will referred to him as the ultimate politician for rent. Paul Krugman...

Donald Trump is so concerned about the birth place of presidential candidates that he must demand birth certificates -- long-form -- and mothers' hospital records for each candidate before they "qualify" to appear on stage for the latest version of an unreality show.

Otherwise, by focusing only on the president,...

In their classic treatise on business strategy and management, Built to Last Collins and Porras identified Johnson & Johnson ("J&J") as the premier company in the pharmaceutical industry as chosen by its peers.

One of the key points in their analysis is that the truly great companies do not...

Not surprisingly, the Super Committee established as a compromise during the Boehner-McConnell Debt Ceiling Debacle has failed to find a formula to trim $1.2T from government deficits over the next decade.

Simply stated, Republicans want all of the savings from spending cuts to key programs for the middle class...

Mitt Romney should quit the act. He is the most effete candidate ever. As phony as a person as he is, he comes across even more ridiculous every time he tries to claim he is tough.

The biggest joke in the Republican 'debate' on foreign policy is that tough-guy Mitt...