Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) must have personalized lockers at the network TV studios since they are on the Sunday morning yapping shows every week.

Here are some questions for next Sunday, or the Sunday after, or the Sunday after that:

1. You are trying to...

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. -- Adlai Stevenson

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) declared that he has been in the House for 22 years and that we have never cut spending. This from the man who tried...

Repairing our banana-republic voting system does not require the genius of the Obama and Romney campaign attorneys.

Like Oregon and parts of Washington State, and like every state's absentee voter system, each voter is mailed a ballot to his/her address several weeks prior to the election. The voter fills out...

The president, we are told, is going to focus the State of the Union address on jobs.

Good.

But, he will not move the needle if he does not simultaneously use the bully pulpit to deliver a civics lesson, puncture economic myths and confront directly those in the chamber who...

Amazingly, they are all falling for it, and not just the lamestream media. MSNBC is being successfully snookered too.

Republican Governors such as Rick Scott (FLA) and candidates such as Ken Cuccinelli (VA) are declaring their opposition to the latest Republican electoral rigging scheme, assigning their state's electoral votes by...

Sloane Stephens, a 19-year-old American, reached the semifinal of the Australian Open by defeating her idol, Serena Williams. It was the first time she reached a semifinal at a Grand Slam event ever.

In the semis Stephens met world #1 Viktoria Azarenka who cleaned Stephens's clock in the first set....

"A necessitous man is not a free man". (FDR, 1936).

In his second inaugural address President Obama rooted his visions of America in the Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain...

Congress's approval rating hovers around 10 percent, a surprisingly high number as there does not appear to be any reason anyone should approve of anything.

The Founders deliberately made it challenging for one set of interests to dominate. Thus, delay, frustration and inaction are built into the system. One doubts,...

Emperor: You gave us something new, and fresh tonight.
Mozart: So, Majesty, you liked it, you really liked it?!
Emperor: Well, of course I liked it my dear fellow. It was just that every now and then... every now and then, it had... it had... oh, how would...

Silence is golden/But my eyes still see...Talkin' is cheap/People follow like sheep (The Four Seasons, 1964).

Six months prior to the 2011 debt-ceiling fight, I suggested the "silence is golden" strategy for managing that fight. The president did not adopt it at the time. From what is...

We had to destroy the city in order to save it -- alleged comment of U.S. Army Major during Vietnam War.

Tomorrow, January 3, the first day of the new Congress, is the only day the Senate can pass new rules on a simple majority vote. Hence, it is...

I have in the past been as critical of White House negotiating strategy as anyone, but I think the president's critics are all wrong about the fiscal cliff deal both on negotiating tactics and outcomes. One wonders if any of the critics have ever...

As predicted last year the 2012 election created a cornucopia of lies requiring PaulitiFacts -- and, we assume, our rival professional lie-ratings groups -- to increase their hiring, providing some of the improved employment figures that we have enjoyed.

Here are PaulitiFacts' Top 10 Political Lies for...

No, I am not suggesting that John Boehner (R-OH) and a group of Republicans switch parties, or even become Independents. That is not likely to happen.

But, the collapse of "Plan B" (B=Boehner) provides an opportunity to make the House of Representatives functional again.

Here is how it could work....

The Constitution of the United States has no provision for a popular referendum or initiative.

But, that does not mean that Congress cannot, analogous to how it handles military base closings, agree to conduct such a referendum, and to vote subsequently to enact its results.

What if the fiscal...

"A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it." - William F. Buckley, Jr.

Someone has to say it.

Four weeks since the election, Republicans cannot face...

Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) just opined on the fiscal cliff talks with a statement rife with such internal contradictions that either he himself is too stupid to notice, or he thinks we are too dense to figure it out.

This is what he is quoted as stating:

Politics demands that the resolution of the fiscal cliff, the current DC-created crisis, includes a face-saving solution for everyone. That is how the 2011 Republican-created "debt-ceiling crisis" ended.

The Republicans have lost the public. They lost the election. The American people overwhelmingly support raising tax rates on...

The President and Mitt Romney met yesterday for lunch, triggering questions about how Mr Romney's skills might be put to use for the country.

Romney should be enlisted to run the clean-up and rebuilding following Hurricane Sandy. If he really did a good job 'turning around' the Salt Lake City...

Congress will fail again. Despite the election and the polls, Congressional Republicans will not vote to allow taxes on the top 2 percent to rise to Clinton-era levels. Republicans' proposed compromise -- to eliminate deductions instead of raising rates -- is not only a con-job, its numbers...