The whole kerfuffle about Sarah Palin's family has obscured a more important problem: that Gov. Palin is an unrepentant liar. She lied to America in her very first speech to us, when she declared, "I told Congress, 'thanks but no thanks on that bridg...

John McCain, who often invokes his ordeal as a Vietnam war prisoner to show his devotion to his country as he runs for U.S. president, drew on the experience again on Monday — this time to deflect sniping over the number of houses he owns.