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WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is calmly assessing the political cyclone that routed her Democratic majority and will, at least temporarily, force her to vacate one of the best...

Really, what did you expect? The first woman speaker of the House, a tough, smart, rich and attractive pro, the most powerful woman in the world, helps get a Democrat...

Among the mysteries of public opinion, this one most strains the brain: Why do so many Americans think the government rescue of Detroit automakers was a bad -- nay, an...

"There is nothing more painful to me at this stage of my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery -- then look...

SAN DIEGO -- Ronald Reagan said that Hispanics don't have to be told to vote Republican. Given their conservative values, they already are Republican. They just don't know it. In...

An excerpt from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States: On U.S. energy policy: It's difficult not to be charmed by the homespun pitch from Texas billionaire T. Boone...

SAN DIEGO -- It is instructive -- and infuriating -- that one of the country's top education reformers is out of a job. America's public schools have room for teachers...

An excerpt from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States: On food stamp sodas: No, no, no. Telling adults that they can't use food stamps to purchase a soda?...

An excerpt from recent Minnesota editorials: By The Associated Press On consistency needed for lake management: Minnesota is the Land of 10,000 Lakes and almost as many different opinions on...

An excerpt from recent Minnesota editorials: By The Associated Press On DEED needs to clean up its act: No one who lived through the deadly floods of August 2007 in...

NEW YORK -- Witches vs. bearded Marxists. Actors vs. hicks. Toon Town vs. Parodyville. The world isn't too much with us. We have left the planet. As we race toward...

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. -- The Republican Party is running a three-level campaign this year that gives its candidates a wealth of advantages -- in flexibility, deniability, and determination. At the first...

When government tells restaurant owners that they can't let customers smoke on their premises, that's the nanny state. When it fines motorcyclists for not wearing helmets, again, the nanny. But...

WASHINGTON -- As the election drew closer, outside groups run by some of the party's canniest political operatives pumped millions of dollars into key races. Newly formed and with innocuous-sounding...

NEW YORK -- Having long been one of the proud tough guys of New York politics, Andrew Cuomo, the state's attorney general, finds himself with a Republican opponent in this...