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As if race and gender were not complications enough in this critical Presidential contest, we now have Bill Clinton stepping up to remind u...

Snow fell today in Baghdad for the first time in a hundred years. According to the head of the local meteorology department, it was the ...

At the gates of the Republican debate last night, there is a heavenly choir to greet the messengers at the podium, who proceed to bring down...

He is not talking about Iraq on the campaign trail, but John McCain has a good deal to say in today's Wall Street Journal on the first...

After the uproar over Bush Administration surveillance of American citizens, the news from Bloomberg country today is unnerving. During his ...

Vice-President Dick Cheney is under sedation after what sources describe as "a medical incident" earlier this week following repor...

Yet another theory to explain the inexplicable results of the Democratic New Hampshire primary: Caught up in post-Iowa euphoria, normally pr...

After all the complaints about Iowa's caucus system, was New Hampshire's odd crossover voting responsible for the most significant p...

The mechanization of American society is going too far. Now some soulless restaurateurs are removing the last trace of human interaction in ...

After each loss, John Edwards keeps demagoguing from the heart, rehashing his closing arguments against the corporations he milked for milli...

If pollsters and pundits had any sense of shame, they would slink off to do penance for their performance in the past week. But they won...

Democrats will surely nominate a senator, and if John McCain can't go all the way, Republicans will name a former governor or super-Mayo...

The man who set the theme for this year's election is off to the Middle East today on a quest to salvage something there, after concedi...

As New Hampshire prepares to vote, pundits are filing Clinton campaign death notices as confidently as they trumpeted her inevitability only...

For someone who made a fortune bailing out failing enterprises, Mitt Romney must be having déjà vu these days as campaign flunkies for the f...

Mike Huckabee will no doubt recover, but being drooled on by William Kristol in the New York Times must be an unnerving experience. I know ...

There were echoes in his Iowa victory speech Thursday night that may come from the influence on Barack Obama of the man who worked with JFK...

They still don't know who destroyed the CIA interrogation tapes or ordered the firing of US attorneys, but Capitol Hill bloodhounds will...

Joe Biden's campaign got off to a rocky start last February when he was pummeled for a "gaffe" in describing Barack Obama as ...

Pornographer Larry Flynt, who has always been unhappy about having a 21-foot six-ton bronze statue of John Wayne on horseback in front of hi...