Obamacare: The long plodding road to ‘reform’
It took only a year to set up Medicare. But if President Barack Obama’s health care law survives Supreme Court scrutiny, it will be nearly a decade before all its…
Romney’s Southern act: That dog won’t hunt
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney — a child of privilege raised in the shielded confines of wealth far from the poverty and working class lifestyles of many Southerners — now…
If Americans really want change, why don’t they vote for it?
For the sake of argument, let’s suppose that American voters really do want something different in their candidates. We hear the rationales all the time: Politics is too packaged, too…
Ron Paul to tornado victims: Get insurance, not federal aid
Libertarian Texas Congressman and Presidential candidate Ron Paul Sunday said victims of tornadoes that spread death and destruction across the South and Midwest don’t deserve federal aid. Said Paul on…
More hypocrisy from Rick Santorum
As he presses for the conservative votes he needs to overtake GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum is hammering away at the role state and federal governments play in…
Federal judge in hot water over racist joke
A federal judge in Montana who used official court email to circulate a racist joke about President Barack Obama has acknowledged the indiscretion and initiated a misconduct complaint against himself,…
Arizona sheriff claims ‘proof’ Obama faked birth certificate
A tough-talking Arizona sheriff, already embroiled in a Justice Department bias investigation, waded deeper into controversy on Thursday with an assertion that a probe by his office found President Barack…
Bitter Olympia Snowe leaving Senate
Maine Senator Olympia Snowe, saying she is tired of “wasting precious time” in a bitter divided Congress, announced Tuesday she will not seek re-election in November. “We could have done…
Ron Paul’s delegate strategy not paying off yet
Texas Congressman Ron Paul, the only GOP Presidential contender without at least one victory in a primary, admitted Tuesday that his quest to “win delegates, not primaries” isn’t going as…
Oklahoma Congressman suggests shooting Senators, then apologizes
An Oklahoma congressman apologized on Friday for suggesting that “killing a couple” of U.S. senators may be the only way to get a budget passed through Congress. U.S. Rep. John…
