According to George Mason University Historian Christopher Hamner , John Wilkes Booth was very clear on his reason for assassinating Preside...

An article in the New York Times titled, " Criticized as Weak in Past Talks, Obama Takes Harder Line ," is the sort of thing that...

Last night's acceptance speech for the nomination to the top of the Republican ticket was, by most accounts , a plate of warm mashed pot...

Todd Akin has become a real headache for the GOP. But there are more of these headaches in the pipe. And those headaches are self-inflicted,...

Ezra Klein calls last night's primary contest in Michigan a "win that made Romney look weak." In delegate math, a win is a wi...

When Bank of America announced they were dropping plans to institute a $5 monthly debit card fee , that was a win for consumers. The fee was...

Paul Krugman identifies a problem around which many other problems orbit. I hesitate to call it a "philosophy," because it's ...

I was cruising through Reddit last night when this item caught my attention: Bloomberg News : Caterpillar Inc. used offshore subsidiaries i...

In 2008, Barack Obama was an elitist. This was the worst thing ever. He supposedly ate in fancy restaurants and ordered unearthly foreign de...

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It's a case of hearing what you want to hear. The right is so intent on giving Bush all the credit for the death of Osama bin Laden that...

At the Democratic presidential debates in New Hampshire last night, Iraq was the centerpiece. It's difficult for dems to run against eac...

The Bush administration fetishizes death so much that if you're not as bloodthirsty as they'd like, you may find yourself out of a ...