The Washington Post has a great piece today on Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus of Montana and his former top aide Jim...

It is a cliche to say it, but they don’t make ’em like former New Mexico Governor Bruce King any more. King died last week at the age of...

LDS Church Apostle Dallin Oaks gave a speech a while back at the church’s growing and impressive school at Rexburg – BYU Idaho – that...

When I noted a few weeks back that President Obama had made a good and interesting selection – former GOP Congressman Jim Leach of Iowa –...

There is a fundamental rule in politics – the first and most important rule, perhaps – that is ignored by any politician at considerable...

We are a two party nation and – with apologies to the 1840’s Whig Party – the party out of power always finds a way to claw back to...

The Republican candidate for governor in New Jersey is a big guy. Some might even say he’s, well, chunky. His opponent is alleging that...

Candidate Obama got into one of those pointless (but totally consuming, made for the media) debates with Hillary Clinton last year when...

I’ve often thought that if the occasional Michael Jackson funeral or Mark Sanford hike on the Appalachian Trail didn’t materialize to...

“There are no second acts in American lives,” may be one of the most quoted – and most incorrect – things F. Scott Fitzgerald ever said....

A Guest Writer today – Shea Andersen – freelance writer and former newspaper editor. Time and again, August proves to be the best month...

A fascinating new report from two environmentally oriented foundations – Brainerd and Wilberforce – slices and dices the Obama For...

Before Vietnam defined his as “a failed presidency,” Lyndon Johnson assembled an historic record of legislative accomplishment. He got...

Political junkies, regardless of partisan leanings, may find the new Dan Balz/Haynes Johnson tome on the 2008 election must reading. The...