As if anyone cared
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has endorsed Hillary Rodham Clinton for President. Pardon us while we stifle a yawn or two. …
FEMA plans to close its FUBARS
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has set a date for close the trailer camps that became symbols of the agency's mismanagement of the Hurricane Katrina crisis. Katrina, however, will forever be…
RIP Henry Hyde
Henry Hyde, the former Illinois Congressman who presided over the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, has died. Hyde's grandfatherly demeanor hid a tough-as-nails politician from the rough-and-tumble world of machine politics. …
20 Nigger Laws and other difficult truths
Offended yet? You should be. But, I'll bet you didn't know that every Confederate State passed "20 nigger laws" intended to exempt men from military service when they oversaw 20…
Did Bill sell out Hillary on Iraq?
Ex-president Bill Clinton's latest campaign trail appearance for his wife Hillary's Democratic White House bid threw an unwelcome spotlight Wednesday back on her vote to authorize the Iraq war. Clinton said…
Fight night with the GOP
Welcome to fight night. With the final round of a yearlong campaign approaching, the Republican presidential race grew remarkably bitter as the top contenders jockeyed for the upper hand — and…
Republicans get testy with each other
Republican presidential rivals Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney scornfully debated immigration in a provocative, no-holds-barred CNN/YouTube debate just over a month before the first votes are cast. Giuliani, the front-runner in…
How the war might play out
President Bush is planning a treaty with Iraq, to be finalized next summer, which will have the practical effect of handing the war and the president's tactics to his successor…
Flip-flopping Harry Reid
Pity poor Harry Reid. Back in April, the Senate Democratic leader proclaimed the war in Iraq "lost." Two months before Gen. David Petraeus had in place the reinforcements he…
