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Now we have bipartisan embroidery of war records as the Republican candidate for the President's former Senate seat in Illinois is caug...

The White House accepted full responsibility for a Gulf cleanup yesterday, but there was no outcry about the government takeover. Congressi...

Up to now, there was only Joe Lieberman doing his Uriah Heep act for cable news cameras, but now the Nutmeg State has its own tent for Novem...

Today's to-do over government recalls what a book publisher observed half a century ago, when exposes like "The Hidden Persuaders...

The Tea Party's new hero has decided to emulate the 2008 Vice-Presidential candidate and avoid being grilled by annoying reporters ( pac...

A full month after befouling coastal waters with an explosion of black sludge that is still gushing from the deep, oil company explainers ar...

There is a Marxist explanation for all this. Groucho, of course, not Karl. In Indiana, a Republican Congressman resigns after promoting bu...

"If I did not think that the security of the United States and the safety of the American people were at stake in Afghanistan," Pr...

If anti-incumbent fervor peaks in tomorrow's primaries , the President will have to face squarely his own part in creating it with a Pyr...

Hamid Karzai is in Washington this week for another round of coddling an "ally" in the War of Terror who is conning us out of liv...

The torrent of words about the new Supreme Court designee suggests that Barack Obama has come as close to choosing himself as is humanly po...

Voter vigilantes are out for blood, and they can't wait for November to get it. That was the message yesterday from Utah as a Tea Part...

The annual rite of maternal flowers and phone calls coincides with the 50th birthday of an oral contraceptive to make motherhood optional f...

The stock market plunges, a monstrous oil spill threatens coastlines, terrorism comes to Times Square, even the Grand Ole Opry is underwater...

As his magazine goes on the block, editor Jon Meacham calls Newsweek one of the few Catchers in the Rye between democracy and ignorance at ...

We attack al Qaeda and the Taliban with Predator drones. They send us a hapless Shoe Bomber, a Christmas plane passenger with underwear that...

With sanity and good sense so media rare these days, when Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck star in "The 100 Most Influential People in the Wo...

Just another date night in 21st century America as Times Square is evacuated by a crude car bomb while the President delivers one-liners t...

Barry Goldwater, who won 27 million American votes for president in 1964, once asked a WASP-only Arizona country club if he could play nine...

The campaign mantra of "Drill, baby, drill" has morphed back into its 1960's civil-rights antecedent of "Burn, baby, bur...