For Newark Mayor Cory Booker, there’s a price to honesty: ‘He’s dead to us,’...
There really wasn’t much the Obama people could do to Bill Clinton for messing up the campaign narrative. The guy was president, after all, and his wife already indicated she was going to step aside...
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My wise and beautiful wife and I are in the process of getting furniture for our house. We would actually like the stuff to match and have a certain “look.” Only problem is, we too often disagree on...
View ArticleObama’s red line on Syria is still a red line, just not his?
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View ArticleLong weekend of Syria lobbying ahead for Congress
"How will missiles launched into Syria affect me, Al Franken?" Now that he's a U.S. senator, he gets a vote. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)visit site to read more]
View ArticleSyriana II: ‘Now we’re going with John Kerry, off the cuff?’
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View ArticleEven his friends reject Obama’s slapstick Syria stylistics
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View ArticleIf you really want to make the shutdown hurt, go after beer
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View ArticleIs this Max Baucus’ Obamacare train wreck or just close?
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View ArticleNow I understand why he’s called “Ted”
The gall. Rafael Cruz, a pastor from Carrollton and father of Sen. Ted Cruz, speaks at a meeting of the Heritage Foundation, at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas in August.visit site to read more]
View ArticleSeriously, were you surprised by Obamacare fraud video?
So, just asking here, when you heard about hidden-camera video catching Obamacare “navigators” advising an applicant “to lie about his income and smoking to get a better deal on subsidized coverage,”...
View ArticleThe apple of their lies for 2013
We’re moving into end-of-the-year territory, with seemingly endless lists chronicling the best of this or worst of that for 2013. My favorite (outside of our own Texan of the Year, of course) may be...
View ArticleAn opportunistic State of the Union speech
What’s a President to do? Barack Obama has faced legislative frustration for five years either (choose based on ideology) because he has… A. Been inept in working with Congress. B. Faced a Congress so...
View ArticleState of the Union Part redux: Republican strategist really, really liked...
So…apparently I wasn’t the only one who thought President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech was pretty good. Republican operative Alex Castellanos liked the speech. Apparently a lot more than I...
View ArticlePhrase for the crisis in Crimea: “off ramp”
Seems every crisis introduces us to some new jargon. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan gave us “IED” and “drawdown.” Eric Snowden and the National Security Agency gave us “metadata.” The protests that...
View ArticleDo we need another Benghazi probe? Panetta, Morell say yes
Leon Panetta, defense secretary on Sept. 11, 2012, says he welcomes an investigation from a House select committee on Benghazi and hopes members of his Democratic Party participate (SeongJoon...
View ArticleMajority in poll backs House committee probe into Benghazi
It seems to make a difference to most other Americans that we don't have all the answers yet on Benghazi, although Hillary Clinton no doubt disagrees (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/The Associated...
View ArticleWhen political mucks up policy, you have these problems
A few years, a presidential administration and a political party ago, your local editorial board was reasonably horrified at the power a single adviser, one of those stop-at-nothing political guys,...
View ArticleYou should be shocked at Mike Huckabee’s parents for letting him listen to...
Mike Huckabee, the former Arkanasas governor turned talk show host and perennial presidential candidate, is … [visit site to read more]
View ArticleObama’s veto on Keystone XL does no favors for oil transport safety
I would not find the President’s veto of the Keystone XL pipeline so off kilter if the process itself were on kilter. It wasn’t. This project was studied and studied and studied again — with the sole...
View ArticleGOP Senators to Iran: Ignore the president
From left: Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) arrive to speak during a news conference on Capitol Hill. The...
View ArticleThe upcoming political education of Ted Cruz
Sen. Ted Cruz, (R-Texas), speaks during the family leadership summit in Ames, Iowa Saturday Aug. 10, 2013. It’s one thing to be a firebrand senator who represents a rootin’, tootin’ state that prides...
View ArticleTed Cruz opens up a new front in the battle for the soul of the GOP
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View ArticleJeb Bush is a leader, not to be confused with Ted Cruz’s soapbox complaining
Jeb Bush announced that he had consulted his family and decided to explore a bid for the White House. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush apparently feels comfortable enough with his standing in the field of...
View ArticleLong before the sex allegations, Denny Hastert’s politics were damaging America
Then Vice President Dick Cheney, left, talks with Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, in 2006 Sometimes it seems like everybody in Washington has to have some kind of phony persona, some character we...
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