I began writing these columns 36 years ago and have come to the conclusion that it's time to bring them to a close. It's certainly not a problem of...

Politics tends to run in families. Once the patriarch has established himself as a political power, his friends will often form themselves into a...

There has been a good deal of controversy over renditions -- moving captured terrorists to countries where they might be tortured. Human-rights...

When one president succeeds another (whether they come from the same party or different parties), they traditionally get together, in or about...

Just recently, there were no fewer than three vacancies in the U.S. Senate -- New York, Illinois and Minnesota -- which is a lot. Sen. Barack Obama...

I am beginning to think T. Boone Pickens was exactly right last year when he told the Senate's Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee...

It seems as likely as anything in politics can be that the Democratic candidate for president in 2012 will be President Obama, seeking re-election...

America is now entering upon an era of government by the Democratic Party. Barack Obama will be our president for at least the next four years,...

President-elect Obama's designation of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., as his intended secretary of state creates a vacancy in her Senate seat, which...

In pure capitalist economic theory, there is no mystery about how we should deal with the crisis in the auto industry. If the companies can't make...

The American left had every reason to think that, in Barack Obama, it had finally succeeded in putting one of its devout disciples in the Oval...

Whenever a new president is inaugurated, there is always a tremendous amount of speculation over what he (or she) is going to "do." And there's no...