If there's potential for a conflict of interest related to resolving the current financial "crisis," Treasury Secretary Paulson's relationship with and ties to China might seem to fit the bill. More

The Chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means committee has hired a forensic accountant to help untangle the web of artifice the Congressman has submitted for the past 10 years in lieu of legitimate tax returns. More

Senator Obama apparently is beaming a guiding light for the faithful ones seeking the "epiphany" he promised his followers at Dartmouth College last January More

The notorious disinviting of Sarah Palin from an anti-Ahmedinejad rally in New York is a product of the secret war Hillary Clinton is waging against the Obama presidential campaign. More

Why in heaven's name did Senator McCain tell 60 Minutes that he thinks that Cuomo would make a good SEC Chairman in a McCain Administration? More

Watch the money flow. Obama dollars can tell us a lot. More

The Associated Press has discovered racism, and it's in you --- yes, you, the ones who have doubts about Obama. More

When faced with the choice of supporting his well-connected developer friends making millions in Chicago's Plan for Transformation, or his district's poorest public housing residents, the former community organizer was an expedient politician. He followed the money. More

Once again, we have a financial crisis, and once again, the American lemmings are rushing off the cliff to our destruction, running to our nanny government for help. More

A century ago in in the Panic of 1907, the US experienced a similar crisis of confidence in its financial institutions. More

Barack Obama held a conference call this week with more than 900 rabbis. Here is a quick fact-check after his latest expression of support for Israel. More

The dirty little secret of Big Labor's massive support for the Obama campaign is the anticipated end to state right-to-work-laws and secret ballots in unionization campaigns. More

If, like many Americans, you are fed up with "fat cats" using political contributions to buy influence with members of Congress, here's something you should know: Many of those fat cats are the members of Congress themselves. More

Baseball is only a game, but it is more than that. It is a part of America residing deep in our national psyche More

When Sarah Palin appeared on the national stage, she was stepping into an archetype that already existed. In personality, looks, and behavior she resembled nothing less than our cultural image of the frontier woman. More

What was the historic maxim of the Left? "The worse, the better." More

For the Democrats, the election season has become disturbingly unpredictable as traditional Democrat voting blocks become more unreliable. More

Neo-atheism has had a very successful publishing run over the past several years, with best-selling books by Christopher Hitchens ("god is not great"), Sam Harris ("Letter to a Christian Nation") and Richard Dawkins ("The God Delusion"), More

It's the drumbeat of the left. It is political, philosophical, theological, and social. It pervades every activity. It is post-structural, post-modern, post-everything More

The left has politicized many arenas of life, and in place of impartial professionals, we now have politicized operatives advancing an agenda. More

MSNBC has swung sharply to the left and that's a good thing. For the network itself, for the American left, and for conservatives and centrists too. More

Ken Lay and Jack Abramoff must be green with envy over the all the mischief that has been accomplished by Jamie Gorelick, with scarcely any demonization in the press. More

One of the most striking aspects of this presidential campaign is the enthusiasm the candidacy of Barack Obama has engendered among Muslims both at home and abroad. More

Will Congress Sell Life Insurance Now? More

Let's compare the schools the candidates McCain and Obama went to, how they were graded, and what was expected of students. More

Despite the carefully crafted image of Obama as the choice of the world beyond our borders, those people fighting the war on terror alongside us support McCain overwhelmingly. More

The more I read about John McCain, the more I admire him. And to be perfectly honest, it is sometimes what others refer to as his "rougher edges" that I admire the most. More

We are in the season of evaluating a President's impact on the economy. I crunched some numbers so you don't have to. The data lead to interesting insights. More

The selection of Sarah Palin as Republican vice-presidential candidate has revealed a serious chasm in conservatism, a chasm separating conservative elites from the vast population of center-right Americans they purport to represent. More

Despite his avowed aversion toward the policies of President Bush, it is useful to examine important arguments made by Senator Obama which are similar and supportive of President Bush's own policies. More

You know election time is drawing nigh when celebrities flex their intellectual muscle. More

John McCain stands to benefit as a little-noted but significant change takes place in the way the American public forms its political preferences. More

How the election will be won or lost depends on a handful of states where the two campaigns are playing very different ground games. More

ISTANBUL, TURKEY -- By the shores of the Bosporus, I listen to a high Russian official utter bellicose threats, unprecedented since the demise of Communism. More

Rce and gender aside, what's so different this year? More

Both candidates deserve to lose. Only, one deserves to lose more. More

How will all this financial turmoil affect the Presidential campaign? The times demand a real leader. More

In 1993, Barack Obama joined a Chicago law firm that specialized in helping develop low-income housing. In time, the job would bring him political support from slum landlords who make Clinton's shady Arkansas associates look like teenage shoplifters. More

The lack of media interest in the role of former domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn in Democratic nominee Barack Obama's political ascent in Chicago is one of the most remarkable aspects of the 2008 presidential campaign More

In his weekly prime time national taxpayer-supported PBS show on September 12, 2008, left wing icon Bill Moyers targeted talk radio -- and not for the first time. More

Senator Obama, the latest news is that this presidential election is close, that there is, ahem, some possibility that you might, er, lose. I offer you some tips to keep your campaign on track. More

The breathless accounts of Mayor Palin banning books in Wasilla are based on disputed versions of two meetings, and almost certainly overblown. More

Hours after I slapped a McCain bumper sticker on my car, somebody tore it off in the parking lot of a local courthouse. I laughed when I thought that whoever had done it probably claims to support "diversity." More