Category: Politics

He's actually published a hard-hitting (for the AP) fact check piece on Obama's speech last night: The ledger did not appear to be adding up Tuesday night when President …

Last week, noted New York Times columnist, Nobel Prize winning economist, and renowned asshat Paul Krugman published a column that got a lot of attention. In it, Krugman discussed …

The current wonderful idea up on Capitol Hill -- mainly among Democrats -- is that during the upcoming State of the Union address. Congress should abandon the partisan division …

Bill to ban crosshair symbols to be introduced in Congress: Representative Bob Brady of Pennsylvania told The Caucus he plans to introduce a bill that would ban symbols like …

Glenn Reynolds at The Wall Street Journal: There's a climate of hate out there, all right, but it doesn't derive from the innocuous use of political clichés. And former …

In the immediate wake of the Tucson shootings, there's a lot of talk about how irresponsible, heated political rhetoric inflamed things to the point where this nutjob was driven …

For a long time, there was an aphorism about politics that struck me as fundamentally true:"Liberals think conservatives are evil, conservatives think liberals are stupid."It seemed to sum things …

(Alternate title: The Ceiling! The Ceiling! The Ceiling's On Fire!)OK, let's talk red ink. The US government is rapidly approaching its debt ceiling of 14.3 trillion dollars (let's write …

As we see and hear all the talk about the new Congress, especially the newly-Republican House of Representatives, we hear speculation and advice for how the new majority should …

One of the things new House Speaker John Boehner said he intended to do was to give up some of the power the majority holds in the House, to …