Hat Tip: Politico.com Sen. Dick Durbin urged Sen. Roland Burris on Tuesday to quit his job as the junior senator from Illinois, but the embattled senator has no plans of leaving the Senate. In a private meeting that lasted nearly an hour, Durbin told Burris that the growing controversy over his appo...

Perhaps I should add here that various private Catholic prophecies point to the destruction of the English peoples at the time of the end by one they often referred to as "the Great Monarch: Saint Cataldus of ......

For American Jews, the Bernard Madoff scandal has not just caused deep financial pain....

WASHINGTON, D.C.: US President Barack Obama Wednesday started the job of hauling his crisis-weary nation out of its 'winter of hardship' by settling into the Oval Office, a day after his historic inauguration ......

I'd guess that the Democratic dismay must run pretty damned deep for them to oppose Obama on his stimulus plan. Good, because it isn't big enough: WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan ran into crossfire from his own party in Congress on Thursday, suggesting that qui...

The Democratic party just won a historic election, taking control of the White House and increasing its margins in the House and Senate - so of course its time for the Dems to do what they do when they get in power: Tear down the leader of the party and leave him open to Republican attack. TodayR...

Race is NOT an issue when it comes to seating Roland Burris as the junior Senator from Illinois at least it shouldn’t have been but obviously it has become an issue. I guess that’s why Dick Durbin, Harry Reid and news anchors alike keep talking about it. Just a few hours ago Dick Durbin ...

It has been several days now and I’ve had time to chill and collect my thoughts. During that time, I have come to realize that my opposition to the seating of Roland Burris as the Junior Senator from Illinois is a mistake and a histrionic reaction to Rod Blagojevich’s mischievous and Machiavelli...

I seriously doubt that the Wayans Brothers or the writers of MAD TV could have written a funnier spoof than yesterday’s orgy of idiocy featuring Rod “Governor Sopranoâ€� Blagojevich, Roland Burris and Bobby Rush. To borrow a phrase from the always-quotable Christopher Hitchens, this appointm...

. CATFIGHT IN THE BIG APPLE BILLARY SAYS CAROLINE KENNEDY "UNQUALIFIED":"SHE'S JUST A RESUME WITH FAMILY CONNECTIONS" And Hillary's Not Talking About Herself, For A Change It seems like only yesterday that some catty New Yorkers were saying that Hillary Clinton was nothing but a resume, an empty pan...