An interesting juxtaposition from The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza
Can Obama bridge the divide between the two Americas?
John Edwards was right. There are two Americas.
In one America, the events of the past 10 days have exposed the true...
After years lurking on the fringes of the social conservative movement, expect to start hearing a lot more about E.W. Jackson, an African-American minister who just won the GOP nomination for Virginia's lieutenant governor. Jackson won the nod at...
Several tornadoes struck parts of the nation’s midsection Sunday, with reported twisters in Iowa, Kansas and Oklahoma as part of a storm system that stretched from Texas to Minnesota.
It has been a tough weekend for the President. First, the CEO of the Associated Press states the government's seizure of AP phone records was "so broad and so secret," among other factors, "that it was an unconstitutional act," adding that it had...
SHAWNEE, Okla. (AP) — Tornadoes ravaged portions of central Oklahoma on Sunday, reducing portions of a mobile home park to rubble and killing a 79-year-old man whose body was found out in the open."You can see where there's absolutely nothing,...
This column went up at Watchdo.org with minor edits a short time ago.
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In July 2012, the Columbus Dispatch broke the story of “attendance scrubbing” in Columbus City Schools. It seems safe to say...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., predicted that Obamacare would dominate the 2014 midterm elections.“I don’t know what the issues will be next year. If I were predicting what’s likely to be the biggest issue in the 2014 election,...
If you’re a liberal who wants to ban guns without officially putting a ban in place, how do you do it?
Simple.
You don’t make guns illegal, you just put restrictions in place that make it impossible for anyone to purchase a handgun....
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"Walker may be shrugging off chatter about 2016, but political observers see plenty of signs he is considering a run for president after his 2014 re-election campaign is over."
He’s working on a book about his life, tentatively titled...
Arkansas state treasurer Martha Shoffner (D) is scheduled to appear in a federal court Monday in connection with extortion charges. KATV-TV reported on Saturday that Shoffner was arrested at her home by Federal Bureau of Investigation and taken to...
Corruption is getting worse, two thirds of voters surveyed in a poll released this morning say.
The poll by the Siena Research Institute found eighty-eight percent of voters surveyed expected to see more legislators in handcuffs. (Count me among...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chances of a deal between Democratic and Republican lawmakers that would overhaul the tax system, trim government spending and reform safety net spending programs appear to be fading.
Intel will continue to fulfill Moore's Law for the foreseeable future, but keeping up with it is becoming more of a challenge as chips get smaller, according to a company executive.
If you think about thrift as a moral quality, it’s easy to understand why Republicans have gotten things so wrong in terms of macro-economic policy over the last few years. Austerity, after all, has a folksy and intuitive appeal, the idea being...
A liberal-leaning Jewish organization on Sunday called on Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to apologize for linking U.S. foreign policy to the rise of Adolf Hitler. “Senator Grassley’s Hitler comparison is absolutely inappropriate,”...
Howard Wolfson, the 2008 communications director for Hillary Rodham Clinton, has said he will not return for a 2016 presidential campaign. Neither, for that matter, will Neera Tanden, the campaign's policy director. Ditto for Mark Penn, the chief...
