Sarah Palin, the former Republican vice presidential candidate, has every right to submit an opinion piece on health care to the Wall Street Journal's op-ed page, and they've got every right to print it. But Palin's existence in this de...

At the beginning of the month, I predicted that August might turn out be a bloodbath for Democrats. At the time, the Democratic self-containment on health care had dissolved, cranks were taking over constituent meetings, and that real anxiety about O...

Senior White House officials, in conversations with reporters today, are floating the idea that President Obama is secretly negotiating with Sen. Olympia Snowe over a health care compromise that would phase in a government-funded health care alternat...

As former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge begins his media tour, he is trying to put the rabbit back in the hat, as it were. Here's a representative quotation: Now, Ridge says he did not mean to suggest he was pressured to raise the threa...

That's the thesis of the First Readers of NBC News, after viewing this astonishing clip from a town hall meeting that Rep. Mike Castle held in Delaware for his constituents. What's most notable, to me, at least, is not how scared Castle looke...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate, has placed a hold on the nomination of Ben Bernanke's nomination to a second four-year term as Fed chairman--a move that's proven moderately controversial but isn't expected to...

Conventional wisdom around the 2010 midterms says that some Democrats in conservative districts will be in trouble, to some extent because of the Obama economic agenda that has riled up conservatives across the country. But the flip side is this: to...

Tracking the GOP race to 2012 Sarah Palin will keynote a bowling trade show in Vegas in June; Mike Huckabee tells Christianity Today that he'll weigh his support and fundraising potential before deciding whether or not to run in 2012; he also defended...

Sarah Palin will keynote the Bowling Proprietors' Association Of America's (BPAA) International Bowl Expo 2010 trade show at the Las Vegas Hilton in June, and here's what the group's executive director, Stephen Johnson, had to say about it, for which...

In an interview with Christianity Today (in which he also urges pastors to "be more graphic" in their descriptions of the Nativity), Mike Huckabee talks about how he'll decide whether or not to run for president in 2012: What factors will you consider...