You can be forgiven if you’ve never heard the name George F. Kennan. If you’re under 50, didn’t fixate, as many of us did, on the daily...

For 20 of the last 31 years a Republican president has occupied the Oval Office. Two of those presidents – the first and second George...

If Mitt Romney wins the Florida primary Tuesday, as now seems likely, the media scrum following his every move will no doubt credit his...

In tennis they call what Mitt Romney has been doing for the last couple of weeks “unforced errors.” In football, Romney has been...

In Robert Penn Warren’s classic 1946 Pulitzer Prize winning novel All the Kings Men, one of Gov. Willie Stark’s acolytes offers the...

John Nance Garner is mostly forgotten now days. If he’s remembered for anything it was for his alleged pity comment that the “vice...

Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert eased, sort of, into the South Carolina primary on his show last night, but not before first handing off...

It is rare – very rare – that a state Supreme Court rises up on its hind legs and says to the United States Supreme Court we think you...

With two wins in a row in the hip pocket of his blue jeans, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney heads to South Carolina today to...

Republicans and many conservative legal authorities are outraged by President Obama’s recent recess appointments to install Richard...

A year ago this weekend Tucson, Arizona was at the center of the world. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a vibrant up-and-coming moderate...

So many things we associate with the modern American presidency, including its imperial nature, where created by Franklin D. Roosevelt...

As a political junkie how can you not love the Iowa Caucus? Last summer when it all started, Iowa native Michele Bachmann was riding high...

Has there even been a time when the United States Congress ranked lower with the American public or when dysfunction more profoundly...

Imagine this scene: It’s May 14, 1940 and Winston Churchill has just walked off the floor of the House of Commons and is surrounded by a...

Long ago I ceased being focused on what some nice spouse, relative or friend would place under the tree with my name attached. As much as...

Still looking for a last minute gift idea? How about a book? It has been a good year for good books. In no particular order, here are ten...

I’m a news junkie. I consume newspapers, radio, television, the Internet, blogs and more like some folks consume cans of Coke or bags of...

The well-quoted Larry Sabato, the political guru at the University of Virginia, has begun talking openly about the possibility that the...

It is not much talked about in the current Republican Party primary frenzy, but Mitt Romney’s father, George, the one-time Governor of...