BY ARNOLD HAMILTON He can spin it any way he wants, but today's Senate standoff was one final public relations disaster for President Pro Tem...

BY CECIL ACUFF Whether by the long-ago rack, an instrument by which the body is stretched, or by just "it was pure torture listening to...

BY DALE DENWALT Earlier this month, Democratic legislators in the Oklahoma House of Representatives tapped 30-year-old Rep. Scott Inman to lead the caucus after the...

BY ARNOLD HAMILTON When I covered the Texas Legislature years ago, a state Senate staffer delighted in passing out cigars that bore a wrapper-slogan truism of the...

BY DANNY M. ADKISON Right after announcing the planned retirement of Justice David Souter, President Obama was quoted as saying, "I will seek someone who...