Georgia Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss handed the GOP a firewall against Democrats eager to flex their newfound political muscle in Washington, winning a bruising runoff battle Tuesday night that had captured the national limelight. ...more

December 3, 2008

Novelist Christopher Buckley, son of the late William F. Buckley, recently endorsed Barack Obama on the Web site the Daily Beast. It resulted in his resignation from the National Review, the conservative magazine his father founded. Excerpts from his endorsement follow: ...more

October 19, 2008

DENVER - Was that Warrick Dunn who just singled or was it Akinori Iwamura who just broke off a 38-yard run? ...more

October 5, 2008

•This week, Karl Rove said that John McCain's attack ads on Barack Obama have gone too far. When Karl Rove says you've gone too far . . . that's like Mel Gibson saying you've had too much to drink. ...more

September 18, 2008

The once independent-minded Sen. John McCain has adopted the serve-the-rich policies of President Bush and the divisive tactics of former Bush strategist Karl Rove, Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden said Monday during a campaign stop in Michigan. ...more

September 16, 2008

I can handle the truth! The push for the November election brings commercial after commercial. ...more

September 14, 2008

Belittling John McCain as a relic of the disco age, Democrat Barack Obama pushed his campaign Friday to a new level of counterpunching "on the issues that matter" and directed his running mate to be tougher on their Republican opponents. ...more

September 13, 2008

It's one of the more hard-hitting attack ads on television, even by the standards of this bruising political season. But this commercial isn't going after John McCain or Barack Obama. ...more

September 8, 2008

Barack Obama is such a dynamic orator that you could almost overlook the boilerplate liberal tenets in his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention Thursday night: Increase taxes on corporations, but spare the middle class; use government to lift the poor and increase the minimum wage; help families pay for college and make it easier for unions to sign up workers. ...more

August 30, 2008

If there is one term I am sick to death of already this political season, it is "flip-flop." In the era of "gotcha" politics, changing your mind has become synonymous with incompetence and is the worst "sin" a candidate could commit. Just like a second-grader insisting a classmate has "cooties," one side is always accusing the other of "flip-flopping on the issues." ...more

July 19, 2008