Hyperbole is the currency of presidential campaigns, but this year the nation’s future truly hangs in the balance.

The United States is battered and drifting after eight years of President Bush’s failed leadership. He is saddling his successor with two … Read more »

Recently, several media commentators as well as politicians have been championing what the Center for American Progress Action Fund’s Matthew Yglesias dubbed “neo-Hooverism” — the notion that the next president should significantly curb spending due to the financial crisis. While … Read more »

THIS week, credit has begun to loosen, stock markets have been encouraged enough to reclaim lost ground (at least for now) and there is a collective sigh of hope that lenders will begin to trust in the financial system again.… Read more »

Before Mississippi’s March presidential primary, one county election official improperly removed more than 8,000 voters from the eligible-voter rolls, including a Republican Congressional candidate. Fortunately, the secretary of state’s office learned of the purge in time and restored the voters.… Read more »

In his speech accepting the Democratic nomination for president, Senator Barack Obama spoke of how his grandmother started as a secretary without a college degree and worked her way up to be a vice president of a bank.

“She’s the … Read more »

It never ends. The Republican Party never gets tired of spraying its poison across the American political landscape.

So there was a Republican congresswoman from Minnesota, Michele Bachmann, telling Chris Matthews on MSNBC that the press should start investigating members … Read more »

The 2 is back. Last week, U.S. retail gasoline prices fell below $3 a gallon… Read more »

Ken Adelman is a lifelong conservative Republican. Campaigned for Goldwater, was hired by Rumsfeld at the Office of Economic Opportunity under Nixon, was assistant to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld under Ford, served as Reagan’s director of arms control, and joined the … Read more »

Hey folks it is not a done deal yet for Obama. Strap in for the fight of your lives. We have two weeks to go and it’s not over by any stretch of the imagination. Political operatives, stop picking out … Read more »

The most striking thing about Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama “was that Powell’s rationale for supporting Obama tracked very closely with some of the harshest critics of Sen. McCain, despite the fact that he used less cutting words to … Read more »