Drill baby, drill! w00t! CNN : A 1-by-5-mile sheen of crude oil mix has spread across the Gulf of Mexico's surface around the area where...

Like anyone who followed the 2008 election closely, the inauguration of Barack Obama tomorrow seems as much like the end as it does the begi...

Last night, I wrote that I hate year-end lists . I knew this would somehow come back to bite me, but in my defense, I don't give myself ...

During the election campaign, it definitely got out of hand. Losing and desperate, the McCain campaign tried to capitalize on Barack Obama...

The religious right are crazy. That was the big news broken by conservative columnist Kathleen Parker yesterday. For those of us who've...

After Tuesday's rout, the Republican party finds itself in pretty bad shape. Beaten and bloodied, rejected and discredited, the task for...

I agree with you, I want to do it, now make me do it. -Franklin Roosevelt, comment to reformers Yesterday, I wrote that the winners of the...

The world is celebrating this morning . In Kenya , there's dancing in the street and a national holiday. In Japan , the toast of the day...

It's one of those election day traditions. Every four years, a bunch of media remote trucks show up at Dixville Notch, New Hampshire to ...

The final USA Today /Gallup poll is out today and Barack Obama holds a national lead of 11 points. A Wall Street Journal /NBC News poll pu...

Some endorsements mean more than others. For example, I don't know who Jay Leno is voting for and that's probably because I'm ju...

I said I was going to continue to post reasons to vote until election day and that includes the weekend. I'm not going to knock myself o...

Let's take a look at the economic situation . Never mind the naysayers, the gloom-and-doomers, the glass-half-empty types, some of us ar...

I've decided to spend the remaining days until the election coming up with reasons to vote. But the best laid plans yada-yada-yada ... I...