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With mass departures today from his campaign staff, it may be time to write John McCain’s political obituary. The captain of the Straight T...

Celebrity journalism has always been the ultimate oxymoron. Journalism is about truth, celebrity is illusion. But now neo-fan magazines and ...

Talk about die-hards: The GOP’s piss-on–the-public pollster/pundit Frank Lunz unveils his strategy to keep the White House in ’08. It gets ...

For those who have been wondering why the Illinois senator is trailing Hillary Clinton in the polls, even though he has raised tons of money...

Rep. Christopher Shays, an Iraq war stalwart on the order of his Connecticut colleague, Sen. Joe Lieberman, has just had an epiphany: He wan...

In less than 20 minutes today on “Meet the Press,” the debate over Iraq came into clear focus. Freshman Democratic Sen. Jim Webb cut through...

Time works its will on everyone, even fanatics. Those who don’t strap explosives to themselves and ascend to their 72 virgins are not immune...

Now that Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki has suggested we’ve overstayed our welcome, the President should take a look at Groucho Marx’s clas...

Al Jazeera West is at it again. ABC TV’s doughty “investigative team,” which specializes in Al Qaeda handouts, is reporting the impending Mo...

Now that the Iranians have blown their cover, the story of our rodent black ops can be told. Last week, in a desperate last-ditch attempt to...

The George W. Bush Afterlife Society will please come to order. First, the invocation from Rabbi Joe Lieberman: “(H)e will be judged as a pr...

Peggy Noonan, who used to write for George Bush’s father and now writes for the Wall Street Journal , has had enough. She wants to fire the...

As America’s Mayor goes South and Fred Thompson comes North looking for support, they are not being too choosy about the company they keep. ...

The surging sales of the morning-after pill evoke mixed feelings. While the new contraceptive certainly gives women (and men) more freedom ...

The tragic comedy in Washington is beginning to look like an Absurdist revival. George Bush is “Waiting for Godot” while Congress is doing “...

John Boehner is a living metaphor for the political muddle in Washington over Iraq. During a meeting of the Republican Congressional caucus ...

Even in the White House, he felt the whole world was a club that wouldn’t take him in as a member. New documents and tapes released yesterd...

Amid all the glum stuff, some major news has been, as they say on the Daily Show, falling through the cracks: *In a shoot, celebrity photogr...

OpEds come and go, but there was an unusual one in the New York Daily News the other day. Titled “This Is Not Our Fight,” its subhead read,...

"My mother," Lynda Bird Johnson once told me, "thinks well of everybody. She's even sure the Devil's been maligned. J...