If President Obama’s health-care initiative fails, there is no longer a rationale for being a liberal in the United States. Everything else on liberalism’s to-do list is footnotes. Passing national health insurance has obsessed every...

Next year Texas will hold its governor’s race and it is expected to be as big as Texas (I know cheesy line). Republican incumbent Rick Perry, who inherited his seat from George Bush and earlier this year flirted with secession, is running for...

With Thanksgiving recess now upon us, it seems an appropriate time to revisit the hysterical Republican whoppers and talking points about the Democratic party agenda that have dominated this Congress. Herewith a top-five list: Number Five: Paul...

Moderate Senate Democrats threatened Sunday to scuttle health-care legislation if their demands aren’t met, while more liberal members warned their party leaders not to bend. The dispute among Democrats foretells of a rowdy floor debate next...

This Tueday President Barack Obama will face his first electoral test since assuming office. The president is not on the ballot, but in large measure his standing in American will determine the results of the New Jersey and Virginia...

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) predicted on Sunday that health care reform would pass, while a fellow Republican senator was more skeptical. Appearing on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” McCain said that the man he battled for the presidency...

Democratic staff for the House oversight committee informed their GOP counterparts today that the majority has changed the locks on the committee’s hearing room. While Republicans previously enjoyed their own key to the room, they will now...

Already two of the thirteen original colonies, Virginia and New Jersey may have wanted to be extra-special in holding their gubernatorial elections in off-years. While the rest of states hold their governor’s races on even election years, for...

Massachusetts law originally allowed for the governor to make an appoint to a vacant Senate seat until the next scheduled election. But in 2004 with the state’s junior Senator John Kerry running for president, the Democratic-controlled state...

Our Founding Fathers never wanted the president to be all-thing to all-people. They wanted a man who would simply preside, enforce the law and maintain the peace; not someone with a legislative agenda. And so it was like that, more or less, for...