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If you doubt that liberal and conservative have lost all meaning in the health care debate, consult the New York Times ' columnists of t...

The health-care finals start in Washington today with the Obama home team hosting the all-stars who have made the American medical system on...

The bill for decades of American greed has just come due, and deadbeats at every level of society are trying to avoid paying their share. Fr...

Oil drilling, yes. Children's health insurance, no. Economic stimulus, by all means. The priorities of the pre-election Congress this we...

A 21st century corollary to the idealistic hope, "Suppose they gave a war and nobody came," could be "Suppose everybody stopp...

Having failed to privatize Social Security, the Bush Administration is trying to wreck Medicare on its way out the door, but MDs are mad as ...

The surest sign that primaries are really over is the surfacing of talk about how long and strong Barack Obama's coattails may be in car...

Congressional Democrats and Republicans are doing an election-year dance with the White House over extending unemployment benefits. The Hous...

The pain at the pump is going political this week. The President and his wannabe successors are pushing pie-in-the-sky proposals--more dril...

Congress keeps turning Bluer with the Mississippi victory yesterday of Democrat Travis Childers despite Dick Cheney's stumping for his o...

John McCain says free enterprise will make it more efficient, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to tinker with it, but the evidence keep...

Being held up at gunpoint is a minor problem for most Americans compared to having money stolen from them by credit-card companies. Now, as ...

Hearts aching for millions of Americans in danger of losing their homes, the Senate has been working hard on the Foreclosure Prevention Act,...

Tall, handsome Jim Himes looks a little like James Stewart in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" and, at a meeting with supporters in ...

News today that members of Congress, including Nancy Pelosi, failed to protest when they were briefed about waterboarding and other harsh t...

After the Tet offensive in early 1968, the Most Trusted Man in America announced the war in Vietnam could not be won. "If I've lost...

The man who gave a voice to unheard Americans is speaking up today against illegal listening in on them. In a New York Times Op Ed, 95-year...

If a suspected terrorist mis-dialed your number any time in the past two years, the FBI is on your case and, if the phone company had had th...

In Washington, our Congress has settled in to business as usual now that the Surge is going so well. Democrats are overjoyed at news of Al G...

The party that prides itself on being a big tent for diversity is showing signs of cannibalism since it took over Congress a year ago and, i...