Sooner or later, Washington conservatives get around to blaming the crisis of the day on the Clintons.
The crisis on Wall Street, which is being compared to a second "Grapes of Wrath"-style depression, is no exception.
Republican hack Tucker...

Only a few months ago, rumors were flying that former Today Show host Katie Couric was about to be cut from her CBS evening news anchor slot due to low ratings.
Couric should be asking for a raise instead.
CBS has taken the one-hour interview...

The intrepid and irreverent folks over at Grist.org have put together a game of Talking Points Bingo for tonight's VP debate. Go have a look. The debate's at 9 p.m.
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For the last two days, the expectations for Governor Sarah Palin's performance in the vice-presidential debate have been so low that as long as she didn't belch between answers, it would be deemed a success. Senator Joe Biden, in...

It's a tense time.
We're entering the last four weeks of the presidential campaign in the midst of enormous financial uncertainty. What we need is calmness, thoughtfulness. I thought both candidates at last night's debate were calm and...

To hear some journalists tell it, Obama supporters can begin to relax: it'll be almost impossible for McCain to win this election.
I'm not seeing that, in the polls or anything else. This morning, Obama's ahead by 5.6 points in the...

Along with labels like "terrorist" and "Muslim," there was another thread in the Republican attacks against Barack Obama last week.
Obama's critics were using the "s-word" to describe him - a term far more inflammatory to Neocons.
Is Obama a...

It was only a matter of time before the Wall Street bailout became fodder for local races.
Today, Democratic State Senate candidate Rick Dollinger called a press conference to talk about the money that some financial firms have given to Senate...

With the number of AIDS cases in the US rising in some segments of the population, and going underreported for the last five years, where do the two presidential candidates stand on what CBS News reported last night as "the forgotten...

Even if Senator John McCain moon-walked across the stage during last night's presidential debate, it wouldn't have helped to restore his maverick image. It's clear, after three debates between McCain and Senator Barack Obama, that McCain's time...

Ret. Army Gen. Colin Powell is a lustrous figure in American culture. Hero, statesmen, and military analyst - his reluctant use of military force was gleaned from personal experience after serving two tours in Vietnam. And his "break and it's...

On a college campus somewhere there is a group of eager economics students who are busy unraveling what really caused the US to slide into this latest recession. The real estate market explains part of it. But there is something about the...

Henrietta has crossed the blue line: the majority of its registered voters are now Democratic.
So says data released this week from the Monroe County Board of Elections. It shows four suburbs that now have a Democratic majority. There's...

In the original 1962 version of The Manchurian Candidate, a prominent political family is seen clawing its way to political power. Actor Lawrence Harvey plays a soldier in the Korean War who is brainwashed to become an assassin. His mind is...

Urban sprawl has typically been discussed in terms of its environmental and economic costs. But Dr. Richard Jackson has been studying its impact on our physical and mental health for nearly three decades.
Jackson, the department chair of...

In the chaos of the final week of campaigning, momentum is shifting in some of the area's Congressional races. So say the politically obsessed pros that follow the stuff.
We're talking about rankings here - how various nonpartisan political...

Call it an infomercial if you like, but Barack Obama's 30-minute pitch to voters last night was a first on two levels. First, no presidential candidate has used television ad time to tell a story so effectively.
Second, the content was...

Looks like we may have gotten suckered.
Earlier today we blogged that State Senate candidate Rick Dollinger had gotten the long-delayed backing of Mayor Robert Duffy. We wrote this based on a campaign mailer featuring what sure looks like a...