What passes for policy with Palin are the standard conservative talking points -- lower taxes, lower deficits, less government and a strong defense.
Auburn McCanta | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics
During the 2008 election, Senator John McCain famously admitted he didn't know how to use a computer and was only then learning to use a Blackberry. Oh, how times have changed.
Dawn Teo | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
I received email after email from HuffPost readers... furious that Senator Kyl doesn't understand the consequences for ordinary Americans who can't afford insurance or medical treatment.
Dawn Teo | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
Sen. Kyl: "I'm not sure that it's a fact that more and more people die because they don't have health insurance."
Joe Peyronnin | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
Senator Graham, why the sudden urge to take the high road? Do you think these senseless attacks are hurting the Republican Party more than President Obama?
Liz Glover | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
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Mother Jones | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics
Last fall, John McCain hailed Sarah Palin as "experienced" and "talented." He declared, "she knows how to lead," and he predicted that "she's really g...
AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — North Korea's missiles could hit the United States in as few as three years if the reclusive rogue nation continues to ramp up its ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics
Sen. John McCain now appears to oppose climate-change legislation, an abrupt switch that could seriously threaten any movement on such a bill. "Near...
Politico | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will use a memoir out next spring to give her side of her interviews with CBS's Katie Couric but holds no bitterness toward Se...
Talking Points Memo | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics
Earlier today, Ben Smith reported that McCain research director-cum-press secretary Brian Rogers will begin working as the research director for Al Go...
Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.30.2009 | Style
Is our first African American president something or what? Did you see him respond to the crowd and the crowd respond to him, at his latest town hall...
Don Ringe | Posted 03.04.2009 | Comedy
Leora Tanenbaum | Posted 02.27.2009 | Media
Last week, the New York Times published an op-ed by Muammar el-Qaddafi, leader of Libya. Perhaps soon we will read Times op-eds penned by Blagojevich, Madoff, and Ahmadinejad.
William Fisher | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics
On the heels of a bipartisan Congressional report blaming high-level officials of the Bush Administration for employing harsh interrogation techniques...
Joe Cirincione | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics
The combination of McCain's recklessness, Palin's proclivities and neoconservative belligerence could plunge a McCain presidency into an early confrontation with nuclear-armed Russia.
Chuck Lasker | Posted 10.09.2008 | Home
"The truth is that the country is not as divided as is our politics. McCain says he wants to reduce the rancor in Washington. I'm thinking, Did you pay attention to the last two days of your convention? I mean, were you not watching it?"
Andy Rosenberg | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics
American voters -- wary of the Cheney experience -- will think long and hard about the next person they trust to uphold the role of the vice president.
Carol Hoenig | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics
Considering the McCain team's vice-president pick, we women are a shallow people, a people who cannot discern gender from agenda. Apparently this is w...
Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics
The 110th Congress didn't bring the troops home. John McCain isn't interested in bringing the troops home. Barack Obama wants to redeploy the troops t...
Eric Margolis | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics
U.S. and NATO forces are not fighting "terrorists" in Afghanistan but a loose alliance of Pashtun warrior tribes whose resistance to foreign occupation is legendary.
Congressional Quarterly | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
Republican presidential hopeful John McCain hasn't voted in the Senate since April 8. That's when McCain and presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Ob...
Matthew Palevsky | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
Kowtowing to an Israeli fear of Iran, McCain used the AIPAC forum to reinforce his three most dubious and dangerous policy claims and beat the drums of war.
Linda Milazzo | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics
Though it's ludicrous to elect a presidential candidate who can't physically perform the job, it's worse to elect a candidate who can't mentally perform the job.
Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.26.2008 | Politics
McCain's life of power and privilege so closely resembles that of George W. Bush that the prospect of a John McCain presidency is cataclysmic.
Joe Peyronnin | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics