Politicians

Modern-Day Pyramids

Bob Franken | Posted 01.13.2009 | Business


Bob Franken

I don't really understand why we're paying so much attention to Bernard Madoff. As we're discovering, almost the entire economy is the moral equivalent of a Ponzi scheme.

Palin Kept Donations From Tainted Politicians

AP | STEVE QUINN and JUSTIN PRITCHARD | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics


JUNEAU, Alaska — Sarah Palin felt so strongly about the public corruption indictment of a Republican state senator this summer that she urged hi...

Selecting Leaders: Did We Strike Gold with Obama-Biden?

John O'Neil | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics


John O'Neil

Such leaders give us hope we can do the right thing when we put cynicism, fear, and narrow self-interests aside.

The Poetry Of A Political Speech

John Lundberg | Posted 10.01.2008 | Living


John Lundberg

Presidential nomination acceptance speeches surely aim to create great quotes, not to repeat them. So I should have figured that when I went digging ...