Steve Daley

The stick figures are in place for 1992. Although it`s hard to find a pulse in the coming presidential campaign, a number of Democrats already have staked out predictable positions....

If you`ve heard Randy Travis` song ''Point of Light'' on your local country and western radio station, you know it was inspired by President Bush`s campaign ode to volunteerism. If...

In an age of variables, Richard Nixon is as constant as a star. Since he left the White House in 1974 one jump ahead of the high sheriffs, he has...

Weary Democrats on Capitol Hill wonder where it will all end, this state of siege over the 1991 civil rights bill. Certainly the overwhelming majority of them will support the...

Early in the Persian Gulf unpleasantness, a Middle East expert named Fouad Ajami kept making sense in talking about the war and the region with CBS News anchor Dan Rather....

Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton last week lifted himself back into the front ranks of the national Democratic Party. And before you giggle at that dubious distinction, consider how far the...

The Democrat poured the last of his lunch-time coffee, comfortable in the sort of old-boy Washington restaurant where he`d ruminated over past presidential seasons with friends and allies. He had...

For nearly 30 years, the Republican Party has been selling itself as the waste management team, campaigning against big government and the incompetent bureaucracy. From Barry Goldwater to George Bush,...

Watching Jesse Jackson walk into the annual meeting of the Democratic Leadership Council was great theater, like watching Madonna stroll into a gathering of the Daughters of the American Revolution....

Consider an old Chinese proverb: Beware of Democrats bearing new ideas. Actually, the Chinese can`t be blamed for this phenomenon. But it is true that as the party of Roosevelt...