By Laurie Roberts, columnist, The Arizona Republic -- Cue Secretary of State Ken Bennett: "I'm not a birther. I believe the president was born in Hawaii or at least I hope he was. But my responsibility as secretary of state is to make sure that the ballots in Arizona are correc …
You'd think, after such a resounding "@!$%# off" from the American public, the bishops might leave women's health care alone and go back to focusing on those important things they claim to care about. But when the Administrative Committee of the United States Conference of Cath …
President Obama’s reelection campaign launched a national drive Friday to counter new restrictive voter-access laws, which advisers said threaten his electoral chances in November. Organizers will fan out in key swing states this weekend to teach volunteers and voter …
The concept of sovereignty is a state’s power to do everything necessary to govern itself, such as making laws, making war and peace, and forming treaties or engaging in commerce with foreign nations. It is extremely difficult to influence, or change, a sovereign nation&rsq …
In recent months a growing chorus of commentators has begun to dismantle the notion that the current polarization of American politics is equally the fault of “both sides.” Most notably, two old Washington hands and collaborators, the Brookings Institution’ …
In the last two months, sixteen companies and other institutional supporters of the American Legislative Exchange Council announced that they would part ways with the organization — likely costing the conservative group hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual fundin …
Setting aside for a minute the offensive way in which the Eagle Forum dismisses all of “the immigrants” as thoughtless criminals, it’s telling that The Eagle Forum views this as simply a political problem. The Eagle Forum’s political allies have long …
“The metrosexual black Abe Lincoln has emerged as a hyper-partisan, hyper-liberal, elitist politician with more than a bit of the trimmer in him.” This sentence is just so deliciously ridiculous, insulting and incendiary — perfect Republican fodder. Let&rs …
OK, so the premise is that “job creators” do not actually create jobs and giving them more money does not improve the economy. There are two different aspects to this that Hanauer is discussing. The first is the myth that the wealth of the rich will trickle down. …
The right wing rumor that Barack and Michelle Obama almost got a divorce goes beyond irrational hatred of this president and ties into a specific Republican objective for 2012. The widely debunked Ed Klein claims in his new book that Barack and Michelle Obama almost got a d …
GOP Wall of Shame has not initiated any private discussions.