Political Commentary
- Ron Hart: Biden does Obama's bidding
- Ron Hart
- "Look, John's (Boehner) last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the #1 job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs, J-O-B-S, jobs." — Vice President Joe Biden, Ohio, Oct. 15. 2008
Jumpi... Full story
- Byron York: Dems want to blame Bush forever and ever
- In the early days of the Obama administration, a lot of people, including some Republicans, weren't much bothered by the new president's tendency to blame his predecessor for the nation's problems. After all, President Barack Obama did inherit a mess... Full story
- Thomas D. Elias: Elections will deliver 2008-10 reforms
- There was never much doubt California voters were unhappy for many years with some parts of their electoral system before they finally did something about it in 2008 and 2010.
By the time the polls close at 8 p.m. June 5, we will have some idea abou... Full story
- Robert Scheer: Obama can't knock the hustle
- Robert Scheer
- How did we end up with such smart scoundrels? Even after it was known that Jamie Dimon's bank blew more than $2 billion on the same suspect derivatives trading that has bankrupted the world's economy, Barack Obama still had praise for the intellect o... Full story
- Amy Goodman: Veterans just say no to NATO
- Amy Goodman
- Veterans of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan are now challenging the occupation of Chicago.
Last week, NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is holding the largest meeting in its 63-year history there. Protests and rallies will confro... Full story
- Peter Funt: Hillary vice president speculation won't die
- Peter Funt
- If Julia Louis-Dreyfus can be "Veep," then why not Hillary Clinton?
The notion has been kicked around in the media for more than a year, and pooh-poohed by both the secretary of state herself and the Obama campaign, but as the 2012 race heats up the... Full story
- Steven Greenhut: Gov. Brown's 'honest' budget claims are bunk
- Steven Greenhut
- Gov. Jerry Brown's "Moonbeam" shtick has long passed its expiration date, taking about as long to go from "cute" to "annoying" as it did for Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Terminator" references.
On Monday, in announcing that the state's budget deficit ba... Full story
- Thomas Sowell: Is the war on race being censored?
- Thomas Sowell
- When two white newspaper reporters for the Virginian-Pilot were driving through Norfolk, and were set upon and beaten by a mob of young blacks — beaten so badly that they had to take a week off from work — that might seem to have been new... Full story
- Joe Gandelman: Mitt Romney's definition problem
- Joe Gandelman
- America's 2012 presidential election has now officially entered its "English Class" stage. On Election Day they'll get a pop quiz to see how well the national voting class learned the teachers' definitions. Top grade goes to the teacher whose definit... Full story
- Ann Coulter: A career in 'public service' pays well
- The real class warfare in this country isn't rich vs. poor, it's government employees vs. we, the taxpayers, who pay their salaries.
Working for the government is supposed to be a trade-off: You can't be fired and don't have to exert yourself, but y... Full story
