Despite his coy avoidance of the topic, Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida is acting like he'd love to be vice president of the United States. ...more

June 3, 2008

No, it's not Harry Potter's birthday. It's the birthday of another great wizard. A political wizard, the late Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of United States. ...more

May 8, 2008

Remember George W. Bush? Given all the excitement generated by heated contests for both the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations, it's easy to forget that the current resident of the White House will not be moving out for nearly a year. Then again, maybe you know precisely when that particular change occurs, since the date - Jan. 20, 2009 - has found its way onto a variety of buttons, bumper stickers, T-shirts and even golf balls and hot sauce. In fact, the rendering of that date as 01.20.09 was trademarked by a small company that sold more than $1 million worth of "Bush's Last Day" merchandise in 2007. ...more

February 15, 2008

Wary employers clamped down on hiring and pushed the unemployment rate to a two-year high of 5 percent in December, an ominous sign the economy may slide into recession. President Bush explored a rescue package, including a tax cut, with his economic advisers. ...more

January 4, 2008

No one personifies the Sunshine State quite like Charlie Crist. It's "the golden age of the Florida Legislature," the governor said over and over this year. Property taxes were going to "drop like a rock." Last week's water summit with governors from Georgia and Alabama yielded "tremendous progress," and next month's referendum on tax relief is going to pass. ...more

December 30, 2007

Dmitry Medvedev, who was just endorsed by President Vladimir Putin as his preferred successor, turned around Tuesday and said he wants Putin to serve as prime minister after presidential elections next March. ...more

December 12, 2007

Gov. Charlie Crist, with a politician's ability to evade interrogation, has been dodging one question more than any other lately: Could he be a candidate for vice president in 2008? ...more

November 20, 2007

U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez recently gave President Bush some bad news. Not only was he quitting a Republican Party job that Bush lobbied him hard to take, he planned to help Democrats override Bush's veto of a multibillion dollar water bill with Everglades cleanup money. ...more

November 13, 2007

The Democratic leadership in Congress totally missed the message from 2006 on domestic spending. They now erroneously believe that they were voted in because of their domestic agenda and that they will woo voters by passing massive spending bills and expanding already expensive programs. Their approval ratings say otherwise. ...more

October 26, 2007

The Bush administration is advancing a proposal to levy higher premiums and deductibles on upper-income seniors enrolled in Medicare's new prescription drug benefit, raising fees on beneficiaries with more than $80,000 in income a year, administration officials said Thursday. ...more

October 5, 2007