Poverty: Gingrich’s dual personality
'Tis the season, it appears, for Newt Gingrich to show his dual political personalities: naughty and nice. We can hear both Nice Newt and Naughty Newt in the Republican presidential...
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A Trump hijacking?
Karl Rove, a star political strategist, is outraged that Donald Trump, a star real estate mogul and reality show host, is staging a reality show with real Republican presidential candidates...
So long, tea party
If history tells us anything, the rise of Newt Gingrich to Republican presidential front-runner is a sign that the tea party movement is destroying itself. After all, the former House...
A ‘followership’ problem
When somebody complains about how politicians are a bunch of corrupt, lazy, no-count bums, Rep. Barney Frank has been known to reply with a wry grin: "Y' know, the public...
An ‘uppity’ outrage
I don't know whose idea it was to send first lady Michelle Obama to a NASCAR race. But the reaction offers a timely lesson in political correctness, a regime that...
How to cut a deal
An old joke says that a camel is a horse designed by committee. That's more than I can say for the so-called congressional supercommittee. It was supposed to come up...
Why Gingrich is back
And now it's Newt? Why has former House Speaker Newt Gingrich suddenly surged in the polls from near oblivion to the top tier of Republican presidential hopefuls? Credit short memories...
JFK’s ‘Chicago’ side
Chicago-style politics aren't always evil. That's what the more pragmatic old-timers told me as a young reporter. I was a newcomer to Chicago, where, as Bullwinkle J. Moose might say,...
Scandal culture snagged Paterno
In a bracing understatement, Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, 84, uttered a tragic epitaph to his abruptly ended legendary career: "With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had...
Cain has another issue with women: Taxes
When I first heard Herman Cain call his tax plan 9-9-9, it sounded like something I might have heard a fraulein tell me years ago when I was a GI...