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Sixty-three years ago, America won a war and lost its innocence. On August 6, 1945, the world's first nuclear weapon was detonated over...

With Hillary Clinton's chances fading, the issue of race is boiling to the surface, as it did in West Virginia and will again in Kentuck...

After the torrent of words over the arrogance of America's self-selected, unelected Vice President, a former Republican colleague and f...

John McCain says it's too soon for Barack Obama, Obama claims it's too late for McCain and Hillary Clinton is still insisting, again...

Deep in the bowels of some Las Vegas super-computer, what are the odds against a 2008 Presidential contest between a former Governor of Arka...

If upscale Republicans and Independents decide the '08 election, Barack Obama might well be our next President, judging from new love le...

Should there be an expiration date on White House gossip? The question is raised by "revelations" this weekend by the New York Dai...

He did it this morning, without comment or news coverage, an act that proves George Bush to be, depending on your politics, either the most ...

When the 2004 Presidential candidate announced his support for Hillary Clinton this month, Gen. Wesley Clark seemed destined to become a Cab...

The “architect” spent his farewell weekend on TV repeating with glee that Hillary Clinton was unelectable in ’08 because of her unprecedente...

Barack Obama is no Chris Rock, but he’s trying. At the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Las Vegas today , he sauntere...

At the invitation of Lee Hamilton, one of the nation’s wisest elders, Barack Obama made the speech of his life today, one that presages wha...

Does an unborn candidacy have a right to privacy? If so, Fred Thompson might complain about some of the recent unwelcome attention to his pr...

Media cycles are getting shorter. After weeks of blowing kisses at the unannounced candidate who is front-running in Republican polls, repor...

Opinion polls are revealing in the difference between what people say about themselves and an anonymous “they.” Today’s figures from Newswe...

Despite the clamor over his defecating dog, Mitt Romney is in clover for the early primary races. Polls show him ahead in Iowa and New Hamp...

As Republicans run away from George Bush in’ 08, one avenue they will take is that of the “Washington outsider.” Giulani and Romney can legi...

The Senator who has made “Independent” a dirty word in Washington outdid himself today. On ABC “This Week,” Joe Lieberman found unspeakable ...

Asked whether he was quitting the Bush Administration because it would be good for his political future, Rob Portman, the outgoing budget d...

The phrase “Independent candidate” evokes a Pavlovian response from America’s perennial Presidential also-ran. Ralph Nader pops up today to...