Clinton’s impeachment now fodder for history books
The impeachment of former President Clinton is in a gray area of history, too long ago to be a current event, too recent to be judged in perspective.…
Can Bush rebound in 2006?
President Bush, bruised by months of setbacks, enters the new year hoping to win congressional battles over tax cuts and immigration, get rebellious Republicans back in step and nurture a…
NSA just one of many federal agencies spying on Americans
Spying on Americans by the super-secret National Security Agency is not only more widespread than President George W. Bush admits but is part of a concentrated, government-wide effort to gather and catalog information…
The South is rising again
The Census bureau's mid-decade population estimate shows definitively that the American political center of gravity has shifted to the South and West. Those states are now as politically dominant as…
Don’t worry, be happy
As if the "war on Christmas" was not enough to darken the season, psychologists have just released data that should really make you want to spike your eggnog. A new…
In the end, it’s just a love story
In case you've been hunkered down on Mount Kenya, "Brokeback Mountain" recently opened. No hurricanes destroyed Orlando. No meteorites were reported in Los Angeles. …
The political scandal that won’t die
How many rats does it take to spoil the holiday season for a potential boatload of lawmakers? Well, so far there have been two and now it looks like the…
A few predictions for 2006
Congress stays in Republican control ... the politics of scandals escalates ... China-Japan tensions worsen ... the economy chugs along. Those are some of the things our crystal ball sees…
Bush pardons moonshiner
President Bush has granted the lowest number of pardons of any president in 60 years, federal records show, but a one-time Tennessee moonshiner was lucky enough to be given one…
Looking for a way out
At every stop on his three-day tour of Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld sent a similar message: The U.S. military is not rushing to get out, but it is…
