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WASHINGTON -- Here is another piece of conventional wisdom about this year's election that is being rendered patently false. It's been said over and over that no Democrats are running...

Here we go again Meg Whitman says she had no idea that she was employing an illegal immigrant for nine years and fired Nikki Diaz Santillan as soon as she...

SAN DIEGO -- Why did Congress suddenly turn out the lights on the DREAM Act? A lot of Latinos would really like to know because they're trying to figure out...

BOSTON -- "Where are our plans for a New Deal or a Great Society?" asked Edward W. Brooke, the legendary Massachusetts Republican. It's not a question anyone in today's Republican...

The Republican nominee for governor of New York doesn't spend a lot of time talking about himself, which is both good and bad. It's good because, in truth, his surprise...

NEW YORK -- Question of the day: Why do presidents give the White House keys to Bob Woodward? I ask this with all due deference, respect, hat in hand, cape...

During the 2000 presidential campaign, Democrat Al Gore became captive of the right-wing noise machine. The activists and their media had gone honking nuts over President Clinton's sexual indiscretion. Vice...

WILMINGTON, Del. -- On the eve of the primary that would end his electoral career, Rep. Mike Castle was in a reflective mood.

WASHINGTON -- Partisan Democrats are delighted about Christine O'Donnell's Republican primary victory over Rep. Mike Castle in the race for the open Delaware Senate seat. I'm despondent. From the Democratic...

Terry Jones, the Florida "minister" who threatened to burn the Quran on the anniversary of September 11, is as much a distraction from the real challenge facing America as was...

PHOENIX -- Arizona has spent the last several months binging on a cocktail of nativism and fear with a splash of political expediency. Now comes the hangover. It has been...

WASHINGTON -- Imagine that your neighbors started getting letters describing all sorts of horrific deeds you had allegedly performed. Wouldn't you feel you had the right to know who was...

WASHINGTON -- Looking back with pride, the British are commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, when Churchill said of the pilots fighting the Luftwaffe: Never "was so...

From The Associated Press An excerpt from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States: On a U.S. federal judge's stem cell research ruling: A federal judge has seen through...