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Leon Wolf, a staffer for Sam Brownback's presidential bid, reflects on his time with the campaign and why it's coming to an end: Ultimately, the one thing that the campaign could not survive happened - we finished behind Mike Huckabee...
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First, Hillary's "Trapdoor": Next, Romney's "Our Home": Romney's coming to a point where he might have to follow Bob Novak's idea about delivering a statement, speech or something on the Mormon question. But I think ads like this one, which...
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No, I'm not referring to CNBC's Bartiromo, I'm speaking of Hillary Clinton, whose superhuman fundraising efforts are once again making news - and not in a good way. Peter Nicholas and Tom Hamburger of the Los Angeles Times have the...
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We're still more than two and a half months away from the first vote being cast in the presidential nominating contests, but could there be signs that the increasingly negative tone of the campaign is turning off voters? Take Rudy...
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Friday, October 19, 2007 Who needs to wait for another hyped-up "War on Christmas?" It's only mid-October. And we're already in the thick of a breathless national "Assault on Halloween.
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Friday, October 19, 2007 Until now, I believed that the smallest unit of time was between the moment the traffic light turned green and the car behind you honked. I was wrong.
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Friday, October 19, 2007 Once again, news travels that the race for the Democratic presidential nomination is over. Actual voting, apparently, is optional. Cue the music, drop the balloons and pass the crown to Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York.
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Friday, October 19, 2007 On Nov. 6, voters will consider Proposition 4, one of 16 proposed constitutional amendments set before voters by the Texas Legislature. For the Austin area, there is much at stake. Proposition 4 would mean $28.
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Friday, October 19, 2007 As one whose wife died of cancer, I might at first blush appear surprisingly to be the grinch who stole Christmas.
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Letting Bhutto back to lead her party's ticket in the soon-to-be-held parliamentary elections is an important step forward for Pakistan.
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The Chinese leadership realized the need to "re-balance" growth in 2004. But they have been too timid to push hard toward a new strategy.
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Rising food prices offer an opportunity to develop Africa's agriculture.
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The Kaczynskis are not a fluke. They represent Middle Poland.
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Craft brewers need to retain the values and goals that put them on the map in the first place.
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The mortgage industry has the ability to solve much of the crisis on its own.
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If Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan moves too far too fast, trouble won't be far behind.
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Al Gore's staking out something of a new path for his generation.
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The Chinese eat from many plates and combine many tastes in the course of a meal.
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The end of the death penalty; Muslim extremists; The warming debate
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Gordon Brown says Britain's national interest has been protected as EU leaders agree new treaty. Do you agree?
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Thursday, October 18, 2007 Ialready know what's going to happen after I write this column. Someone is going to say, why did you waste space condemning the latest drivel from the mouth of Ann Coulter? Don't you know she only says these outrageous things to promote her books?
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Thursday, October 18, 2007 NEW ORLEANS — People here haul out multisyllable adjectives to describe the back-to-back storms that devastated Louisiana two years ago. Catastrophic, cataclysmic and apocalyptic are three of the favorites. Biblical is another.
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Thursday, October 18, 2007 I don't know if life begins at conception. I don't really know what "life" means. Consciousness? Possessing a soul? Well, if consciousness defines the issue, then life surely does not begin at conception. Not even the most adamant abortion opponent claims otherwise.
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Thursday, October 18, 2007 It's an old phenomenon: When the dispossessed get clout, the past becomes a battleground. Often the stakes in the present are extraordinarily high.
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Thursday, October 18, 2007 Proposition 1, the increase in sales tax and car tabs to pay for light rail and roads, should be defeated. It costs too much, it lasts too long and it does too little. Consider first the cost.
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