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This week, when Arthur Bremer was released after 35 years in prison, it barely made the news, another irony in his long, fruitless search f...

Joe Lieberman and Frank Rich agree about something: America is mentally ill. "We are a people in clinical depression," Rich writes...

He wanted to write The Great American Novel but changed the face of journalism instead. He died today at 84, leaving behind a torrent of wo...

Weeks before primary voting in The Election That Looked Like It Would Never Come, front runners in both parties are losing some of their lus...

The indictment today of Bernard Kerik promises to be much more than a case of a politically incorrect crony that Rudy Giuliani can fob off ...

Suddenly we are back in the 1960s with Hillary Clinton citing virtues for what she did back then, Barack Obama claiming he is of a new gener...

Iraqis are going home in Baghdad, and veterans of the war are starting to live on the streets back here. Another day of weird news dramatize...

Barack Obama is the devil. If you doubt it, there is a highly professional web site updated daily to provide chapter, verse and venom on th...

Saving America is hard work, and the pay can be rotten, at least if you're doing it for the nation's leading conservative publisher....

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

Pat Robertson, icon of the Religious Right, today endorsed a thrice-married, cross-dressing, pro-choice Catholic for President in 2008. ...

There is an eerie déjà vu to the sight of another Texan with the same initials crossing a Clinton's path to the White House as Ross Per...

An old saying, "The perfect is the worst enemy of the good enough," comes to mind in the Senate struggle over the nomination of Mi...

"I veto, therefore I am" is the new theme of the Bush Administration. In 1948, Harry Truman got to stay in the White House by rail...

Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Jay Leno and David Letterman won't be doing monologues about today's news tonight because their brains...

From right and left, critics accuse the nation's media of selling out the American people but, while the debate rages, the real selling...

Pakistan could make Iran look like small potatoes. President Musharraf's move to seize emergency powers and crack down on opposition h...

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

In the 1977 New York City Marathon, a friend and former colleague of mine was disappointed by his worst performance in five years. But there...

While Rudy Giuliani peddles fake survival statistics about his prostate cancer to lambaste "socialized medicine," George Bush and ...