Mitt Romney on Tuesday defended his expressed indifference for the 47 percent of adults whom he said pay no income tax, but he expressed alarm that his remarks might be construed to mean that he thou…
Sometimes you have to wonder if the cultural canyon between the West and the Arab world is impossible to bridge. Sometimes you have to wonder if the political divides in this country — which have tak…
Heading into the home stretch of the 2012 presidential race, Barack Obama is opening up a lead. Last week, Mitt Romney hit the accelerator and just about ran his campaign off a cliff. All polls are s…
Reacting to the chorus of praise for the convention speech delivered by Bill Clinton, Democrats hastily voted to change their party platform for a second time in less than a week, replacing the word …
The death of America’s ambassador to Libya and three other embassy employees by an angry Muslim mob on the anniversary of 9/11 no doubt has many frustrated citizens of this country thinking that’s no…
After two weeks of political conventions, the Obama and Romney campaigns emerged having thoroughly litigated the past four years but left many unanswered questions about how they will fix the economy…
If you watched any of the Democratic National Convention last week, you know that every bad thing that has happened in the country the last few years is the fault of the Republicans. At least that ha…
In a week spent celebrating his first term, Barack Obama’s greatest domestic achievement was barely mentioned. Victims of a kind of Stockholm syndrome, they’ve spent four years absorbing myths genera…
The biggest promise Mitt Romney made on accepting the Republican presidential nomination wasn’t to create 12 million jobs. It came when he ridiculed Barack Obama’s 2008 pledge to “heal the earth” wit…
Most of what you hate about the political process is aided and abetted by the Electoral College. The fact that a third-party candidate can never make a run as anything more than a spoiler for one of …