Poll: Close Race in Key States

One of the great things about American politics is its capacity for punishing hubris. For the ancient Greeks, hubris didn't merely describe god-like arrogance. It was a crime, usually defined as taking too much pleasure in the humiliation of your foes. I

President Barack Obama’s executive orders on gun control violate the constitution and deny the God-given rights of the American people. People who believe that also might believe that a bill passed by the state Senate “protects us from the government tur

Republicans are seen, and most Republicans see themselves, as the anti-government party. Republican solutions to most of the country's problems begin with, or at a minimum include, shrinking the size, scope and spending of government — unless you're disc

In the wake of Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, both connotations seem at least a little apt. We are well into our fourth month of epidemic thumb-suckery over the question, “Are the Republicans doomed?” The latest New York Times Magazine asks,

The National Prayer Breakfast is not supposed to serve as a forum for a clash of political visions, but that was what Ben Carson made it last week. The Johns Hopkins Hospital neurosurgeon and motivational speaker lit up the event with a politically charg

Washington, Feb 15: In a major rebuff to President Barack Obama, the Senate Republicans stalled the confirmation process of his Defence Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel, a former Republican senator, with a filibuster. Obama’s Democrats Thursday failed to st