BY ARNOLD HAMILTON One of the state Senate’s finest, Sen. Debbe Leftwich, D-Oklahoma City, is calling it quits. She announced her decision not to seek re-election...

BY JOE CONASON Rand Paul, Tea Party flavor of the month, is said to be avoiding “overexposure.” Senior Republican Party operatives, worried by the Kentucky Senate nominee’s all-too-revealing remarks after his primary victory, have urged him not to grant any interviews for a while. So he flip-flopped on his criticism of the 1964 Civil Rights […]

BY FROMA HARROP Ripped from the news: Haitians are illegally crossing into Vermont from Canada, looking for work. Why didn’t the Haitians stay in Canada, where the social safety net is far cushier? Because, as the head of a Haitian radio station in Montreal told The New York Times, “they saw that they had no […]

BY WANDA JO STAPLETON Dear Senator, Would you please complete this Viagra Reporting Act because this should be a priority for the next session: Public Health and...

BY JIM HIGHTOWER At last, after weeks of analyzing, calculating, pondering, consulting and crafting, Democratic leaders in Washington have unveiled their much-awaited legislative response to the Supreme Court’s January decision in the infamous case of Citizens United. That’s the destructive dictate that allows oceans of corporate cash to flood America’s elections and drown out the […]