Today Barack Obama completes the first 100 days of his presidency. Ever since Franklin D. Roosevelt and his famous 100 days it has been a benchmark for measuring presidents.

Is it silly to judge the 1,461 days of a president's first term by the first 100 days? Quite.

I came to politics and government with a great deal of idealism. I truly believed people committed to public service...

Some of us warned early on the American economy was going down and not likely to recover in the foreseeable future.

Late last year government economists would tell us we're in a "recession", but I contend what's happening cannot be defined either by monetary definition or...

"You haven't lived until you've died in California." -- Mort Sahl

The Los Angeles Times wants to know, "Can anyone govern California?"

There's a one-word answer. The answer is no.

The state is too big and the competing interests so conflicted that it...

The United States is in an economic crisis. No one knows its magnitude - not at the White House, not at the Treasury Department, not at the Federal Reserve, not on Capitol Hill, and least of all on Wall Street; whose principals, by their opulent lifestyles and moral rot, are...

Caroline Kennedy has expressed an interest in being appointed to the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Senator Hillary Clinton's designation as secretary of state by President-elect Obama.

Why not?

Well, some people think it's a bad idea. They say her interest...

William Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standard and New York Times columnist (a reflection of the Times' desire to balance its editorial page, but Bill Safire he is not), wrote recently about the economy for the Times. Apparently he now believes no one knows what's really going on in...

A book sold is a book sold, right? Wrong. A book sold is a book sold only if the book sold is sold at a venue that counts as books sold -- Borders, Barnes & Noble, large independent book stores, and on-line at Amazon.com. Books otherwise sold fall into a...

On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will be elected president and vice president of the United States. On Inauguration Day, January 20, 2009, Senator Obama will become the nation's 44th president. The victory of Senators Obama and Biden will also see the Democratic Party win decisive margins...

November 5, the day after Barack Obama has been elected president of the United States, Sarah Palin will commence her own campaign for president in 2012. She will do this because once you've seen The Great White Way, Wasilla will never be the same; once you've starred on Broadway community...

John McCain and Barack Obama are the nominees of the Republican and Democratic parties for president of the United States. One has publicly acknowledged Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior.

The one who has is not John McCain.

But if you watched the mid-August forum at Saddleback Church in...