Has anyone just stopped for a second to reflect on the fact that Sarah didn't just diss Barack Obama, Rosa Parks and the thousands of other community organizers when she derided the Democratic presidential nominee's experience?

Hello! How about the founding fathers. I watched those guys portrayed in the recent...

The McCain campaign has now said publicly that they don't think Sarah Palin should have to answer any questions from the media. Since a free press is the only way the People can ask the questions we have a right to know, maybe the media should stop granting access to...

I thought McCain was the next Bush. I said so, like countless others, on this blog. More war. More debt while keeping taxes low and mocking the Democrats who want to pay down that debt. No vision regarding the energy issue. Or education. Or health care. More fear. Less solutions....

What moved me above all else in Governor Palin's acceptance speech was her pledge to parents of special needs children: she will be their warrior in Washington. They can count on her, she says, to win for them the government support they require and deserve.

I'm an Obama supporter who...

He served a President with historically low approval ratings. His opponent was an attractive, intelligent history-making leader--Ségolène Royal would have been France's first female President. The country was struggling economically, and Sarkozy had been, among other things, the Finance Minister under the unpopular President Chirac.

Nonetheless, Nicolas Sarkozy had brandished...

Tonight during the evening news the Republican National Committee ran an attack ad (multiple times) that featured menacing black-and-white images of Harry Reid, Charles Schumer, Patrick Leahy and other leading Democrats with the captions: "Ready to Tax" and "Ready to Spend." I was hoping the DNC or the Obama Campaign...

Wanted: President of the United States: Educational Background, Not a Factor.

Everyone claims to be for better teachers and schools. Both Democrats and Republicans, to say nothing of independents, fervently believe that American children should receive a first-rate education. After all, democracy is great but not...

During the Republican convention Rudolph Giuliani and Sarah Palin heaped scorn on "community organizers" with snappy sound bites. Giuliani laughed off the idea that Barack Obama's community organizing background could count for anything. Palin followed, calling herself "just your average hockey mom" who became mayor and then governor, also mocking...

On July 20, 2008, the pastor of Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's home church, Larry Kroon, delivered a sermon called "Sin Is Personal To God." Kroon, the senior pastor of the non-denominational Wasilla Bible Church in Wasilla, Alaska, used the book of Zephanaiah as his reference point for discussing...

Sarah Palin has already singlehandedly introduced several terms into our political lexicon. "Hockey mom" is probably the most recognizable of these. "Troopergate" will become more and more known in the next few weeks. But today, I would like to personally add to this growing body of terms the Alaskan governor...

There was an overall shocking disparity between the Republican and Democratic Conventions, their tone, and most importantly the way force was used to quell the voices of protestors.

Consider that the prelude to the Republican Convention was a search and seizure of computers and detention of "organizers" from...

As laughably ludicrous as the concept of Republicans changing things in Washington after being in power for eight years may be to you and me, I'd like to hear one reporter ask any Republican - McCain, Palin, Davis, Rove, etc. -- two questions.

Who will you fire? Who will you...

What if John McCain had chosen a white man with Sarah Palin's extremist views as his running mate? Instead of a week of media glee that the maverick was back, would the punditocracy have been forced to dwell on a more hard-headed analysis of the power of the radical Right...

Almost every single thing Palin said in her speech the other night turns out to be just a lie -- and it doesn't matter. She now has 58% favorability among the public. And she has a story. Within a day of the Palin announcement a well-informed, liberal, Democratic,...

John Ford couldn't have staged it better. There was Cowboy George disappearing into the sunset, draggling a few twigs of Crawford brush behind him, while Old Man McCain, patriarch of Sedona Ranch -- or one of those dang houses, never could remember which -- was waving him off with relief....

David Frum, a Republican, thinks the McCain campaign shouldn't put Palin in a box and hide her from the press. Good, he's right about that, and his piece is a must-read. But like most Republicans his disdain for "elites" is itself the height of elite arrogance.

Over the last week there has been a lot of talk about Senator John McCain's newly picked running mate Governor Sarah Palin and the Jewish community. Wednesday, I published an op-ed for The Jerusalem Post titled, "Sarah Palin and the Jewish community." The choice of Palin as McCain's Vice...

The culture wars are resurgent, says the New York Times. The Times' analysis of the themes in the Republican National Convention showed that God was mentioned more than any other single theme, followed closely by taxes.

God and taxes. You wouldn't think they were a natural pair.

Actually, if...