Politics

Let the rumors begin.

A new Rasmussen Reports poll shows that 29 percent of Democrats would support Sen. Hillary Clinton running as an independent in the fall:

Thirty-eight percent (38%) of Democratic voters nationwide now believe that Hillary Clinton should drop out of the race for the White...

Hillary's supporters will vote for Barack Obama and his running mate. Disaffected Republicans will join the vote for change. Even Hillary's goons like James Carville and Paul Begala will try and jump on the Democratic bullet train because it is hurtling toward the White House this fall.
Hillary cost...

After the invasion of Iraq there was much talk among conservatives about invading Syria. Then Secretary of State Colin Powell was heavily criticized for taking a trip to Syria to talk to its leadership. Newt Gingrich said, "The concept of the American secretary of state going to Damascus to...

This afternoon, the California Supreme Court recognized that same sex couples have a constitutional right to marry under the State Constitution.

In view of the substance and significance of the fundamental constitutional right to form a family relationship, the California Constitution properly must be interpreted to guarantee this basic civil...

The past couple of decades have been disheartening with respect to the politicization of defense policy. In 1992, then-Governor Clinton pledged to allow gays and lesbians to serve openly in the U.S. military. Regardless of the substance of the issue, it was inappropriate to seek to make political gains from...

In a shocking article from the Economist in March 2002, John McCain is described as having George Bush's foreign policy before George Bush had it. The article, by the Economist's Lexington columnist, is titled "George Bush: McCainiac - How the president has almost become the man he...

Those who are responsible for putting Democrats in the broken place we are in right now with regard to Barack Obama had better own it to the end. Leave those bumper stickers on and wear those campaign pins until the bitter end folks because YOU OWN IT. And people are...

Sen. Hillary Clinton defeated Sen. Barack Obama by a landslide in Tuesday's West Virginia primary. She won by a 67%-26% margin, and picked up about 140,000 popular votes and about 20 delegates, thus narrowing Obama's lead to about 460,000 votes and 145 delegates. But let's be very clear about one...

American politics isn't an arena where people ask things, it's a place where people know things. It is a culture fueled by the fear of embarrassment, populated by people who have professionalized a vocation, who look down their noses at passion and sneer at the capacity to be surprised. Our...

Sen. Barack Obama won't be in West Virginia tomorrow on Election Day. With his sights set on the general election, he'll be in Missouri.

Obama's public schedule isn't offering many details yet, but reveals he will be in Cape Girardeau, MO, on Tuesday.

He'll...

Bob Herbert in the NYT today:

"The landscape is changing before our eyes. Younger voters struggling with the enormous costs of a college education, or trying to raise families in a bleak employment environment, or using their credit cards to cover everyday expenses like food or energy costs...

The casualty counts from the earthquake in China and cyclone in Myanmar are staggering. What's interesting, however, is that whenever a natural disaster strikes, the number of casualties first reported is always deceptively low but creeps upward as more information is made available. Interestingly, the opposite tends to be the...

If Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton can be relegated to the ranks of "Autism" these days, then The New World does seem perilously close to being upside down--as I have always suspected.

Does it not anger anyone else that many of...

Two months ago I wrote a piece for Huffington Post in which I carefully and delicately expressed my growing desire to see Barack Obama win the Democratic party's nomination for president. The main reason I outlined in that piece was my admiration for Obama's call to action from the...

Any presidential candidate asking for our vote might rightly be asked in return, "Will you live long enough to serve out your term?"

This question has never been more relevant than in the case of Senator John McCain, who, if successful, will be oldest candidate we've ever elected president --...

Are you feeling frustrated? Would you like to get involved somehow in this Presidential campaign beyond writing a check for your favorite candidate?

Do you have some time and skills that might be employed to increase the probability that the next President's administration is comprised of the "best and...