Some very promising news on an otherwise disappointing day. The Chicago Tribune and local news stations report a bill giving gay and lesbian couples the right to form civil unions in Illinois has "squeaked" through a key committee. [The bill]......

I wrote a post yesterday asking where our Treasury Secretary was at a time when it seems that our economy, the world economy's and financial markets are spiraling out of control (Has Anyone Seen Our Treasury Secretary?) Remarkably I was accused by a reader in a comment of being a radical right wing ...

Economist Paul Krugman is in a free-fire zone. First, he takes on Republicans via Governor Bobby Jindal's reply to the SOTU:Traditionally, the division between conservatives and liberals has been over the role and size of the welfare state: liberals think that the government should play a large role...

The train wreck continues. Dick Durbin, the Senate majority whip and Illinois' senior senator, suggests embattled junior Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) should resign. Burris says thanks but no thanks."I told him, 'If I were in your shoes, I would consider......

Some federal legislation is confusing and hard to evaluate. Sometimes it’s due to complexity - other times it’s because opponents create complexity to mislead the public. Congressman Peter Roskam recently decided to confuse what the recently passed stimulus package does - and then critic...

On Wednesday, federal authorities reported they did not know the whereabouts of Texas banker and scammer Allen Stanford. But what we do know for certain about the financier whose frauds may yet rival the $50 billion Madoff Ponzi scheme is that he donated generously to both political parties in Washi...

As predicted, House and Senate Republicans on Friday maintained their unified front in turning their backs on President Obama's economic recovery package. As it turns out, Obama wasn't the first Democrat to learn the hard way that bipartisanship is a one-way street for the GOP when it comes to the e...

by Lee Stranahan "Results" aren't the reason to be civil. It's a virtue in its own right. And things may go differently in the future. But President Obama's decision not to kick Joe Lieberman in the gonads may have already paid off... The successful passage of the stimulus began with Obama's decisio...

The stabbing of the police chief and its aftermath in Passau, Germany, has dredged up a reputation for ties to Nazism that civic leaders had worked hard to shed....

That's right: Democrats. Who again won the last election on the rising tide of voter indignation at corporate excess? Democrats, that's who. And now they're acting like losers....