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People, real people by the thousands every year, are dying for lack of medical treatment in the world's richest nation, and after a week...

Not very, although John Boehner left the Summit looking like he had been in the dentist's chair all day. Nancy Pelosi zinged as "no...

A Senator from Arizona engaged the President this morning on the virtues of scrapping the health care bill and starting over, but it was Jo...

Big breakthrough for bipartisanship: The table for the health summit has been changed from U-shaped to O, allowing more Republican face tim...

"All Toyota vehicles bear my name," the president and grandson of the founder writes today. "When cars are damaged, it is as ...

Today brings a sharp contrast in political philosophies and economic reality. As Paul Krugman discourses on three decades of Republican atte...

Democrats are rediscovering the old saying, "just as well to be hung for a sheep as a lamb," as they edge toward passing health ca...

His pillory a golf-clubhouse lectern, America's most famous athlete staged his own public humiliation yesterday for a TV camera, the 21...

Odd people in Washington this week are wrapping the flag around themselves as protection from most Americans who have sweated and bled for o...

On the first anniversary of the stimulus bill, the Washington of absolutes is on display --Obama's "Yes We Can" vs. the GOP...

In the brouhaha over a forthcoming movie by a conservative filmmaker, we are once again on the dark side of free speech, which the Supreme ...

With the Capitol Hill horror show on hiatus, the President has an opening to power up and start moving Washington toward some semblance of b...

Presidents Weekend brings reminders of how history's most productive economy of goods and services was brought to its knees by glorified...

A new poll confirms what we know: Two out of three Americans are "dissatisfied with or angry about the way the government works."...

Things could be worse. If the millions who wanted John Edwards as President in the past decade had had their way, the nation would now be in...

Before a new blizzard brought Washington to a standstill, Barack Obama made another effort to dig out of the Republican snow job and verbal ...

In a pre-Super Bowl interview, President Obama told Katie Couric about a televised bipartisan health-care meeting on February 25th "to...

The image of a pet rabbit in a boiling pot arises after a night of passion in Nashville, with Sarah Palin auditioning for the Glenn Close ro...

Political satire started in prime time as Sarah Palin preempted SNL with a parody of herself at the Tea Party convention . "How's...

With the approach of Super Bowl Sunday, talking heads are out on TV to handicap and cash in politically on the biggest game of all--a terror...