It’s an iron law of politics: Stay out of the way when your opponent is busy destroying himself. So Barack Obama is smart to lay low this week. John...

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Many a time I’ve given a reporter a quote that didn’t look so good in print. So I felt for Rep. Melanie Wade Goodwin. The chair of the House committee...

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Michelle   I’ll go out on a limb and agree with Gary and praise Michelle Obama. Even odder, Albert the Pollster, a died-in-the-wool Republican,...

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To all the young people on shore thinking Barack Obama’s the political savior who’s going to lead them to the Promised Land and change America – watch...

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Some Democrats are in despair. The national polls are even! The Republicans are up to their usual dirty tricks! Obama has to do something!   Re...

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Russian tanks rolled into Georgia and the earth moved on its axis so President Bush scowled real mean at Vladimir Putin during the Olympics then dispa...

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A spirited debate broke out at a book club this week about Bev Perdue’s vote to keep illegal immigrants out of the community colleges.   A crav...

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Let’s forget about who first slept with whom when and whether they stopped two years ago or last month – and talk about John Edwards’ sheer incompeten...

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John McCain’s real running mate this year will be Richard Nixon – or, to be precise, the strategy that Nixon pioneered for Republicans in 1972: Make y...

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