BY SUSAN ESTRICH Everyone knows that what doesn’t destroy you makes you stronger. That is particularly true in politics, where a hard kick either knocks you down or wakes you up. President Obama and the Democrats got that hard kick last month, when a perfect storm resulted in the election of Massachusetts’ first Republican senator […]

BY RICHARD L. FRICKER As once said, "You shouldn’t drink that early, or whatever you’re smoking you need to share." So it is with Congressman...

BY JOE CONASON The most revealing moments in President Obama’s State of the Union Address were not in his remarks, but the reaction to them by those listening on the Republican side of the aisle. When he proposed to recover a “financial responsibility fee” – in plainer English, a bank tax – from the largest […]

BY FROMA HARROP Sunbelt-and-sprawl advocate Joel Kotkin wrote two years ago that the future of American urbanism wasn’t in the “elite cities,” such as New York, Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco, but in “younger, more affordable and less self-regarding places.” He named [his order] Houston, Charlotte, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Dallas and Riverside, CA. Boom-city […]

BY JAMES NIMMO If the obvious is obvious, then why skirt around the obvious word? Isn't it obvious gays and lesbians are the obvious targets? Let...