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For too many at Virginia Tech, life will never return to normal. As classes resume, though, the rest of us should begin to discuss the implications of this horrific event.…

While the taxman keeps coming, we now care a little bit less. Everyone dreads April 15, but for decades, Republicans turned distaste for taxes into votes against Democrats. We were…

Real numbers, reflecting cold, hard cash, provide welcome relief from the straws in the wind that capture our attention during the “invisible primary” season when so little else is concrete,…

With Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) working overtime to convince America that the GOP is the vanguard of the Flat Earth Society, it is worth recognizing…

Journalists strive to report the news, not to be the news. So Fox News should have been a bit embarrassed to headline a story that ended with the Nevada Democratic…

Dick Cheney should resign his office.   The vice president should not be banished simply because he has become one of the most unpopular figures in American political history, nor…

Since the advent of the contemporary primary/caucus-based nominating system, Iowa and New Hampshire have held the keys to victory. 2008 will be no different, though Nevada (for the Democrats) and…

Business Week recently described Frank Luntz by saying, “He persuaded the public to hate the soak-the-rich estate tax by redubbing it ‘the death tax.'” It’s a sentiment I’ve heard echoed…

Listening to Republican insiders, one might conclude that none of their candidates can win the GOP nomination. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), they say, is out because his attacks angered the…

It sounds self-congratulatory (OK, it is self-congratulatory), but I say it with purely pedagogical intent: Four years ago, about the only truly accurate polls of the Iowa caucuses were ours.…