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A test for political peer pressure is shaping up in Washington around the tenure of Roland Burris in the Senate. With little legal prospect ...

The booing of Sarah Palin yesterday for lauding Hillary Clinton's presidential primary achievement is a dandy metaphor for the sexual s...

In today's New York Times , William Kristol invokes the Reign of Terror in advising John McCain to follow Danton 's lead in picking...

In 1974, a future Supreme Court Justice graduated from Yale Law School. In 1991, a future US Senator and Presidential candidate received his...

By writing his memoirs and promoting them on 60 Minutes, Clarence Thomas has not only breached the traditional Supreme Court wall of persona...

If Newt Gingrich got $4.5 million and Clarence Thomas $1 million, what will Rupert Murdoch pay for Karl Rove’s memoirs? In announcing his d...

As he goes off on vacation, perhaps to write the book for which Rupert Murdoch gave him a $1 million advance , Clarence Thomas can take sati...

On the eve of another Rupert Murdoch mongoose act, this time swallowing the Wall Street Journal , he gets a review from the New York Times ...

Of the damage this presidency has done to American society, the worst and longest-lasting is just becoming visible. As the Supreme Court end...