Ouch! — After promising to “push the reset buttonâ€� on relations with Moscow, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton planned to present Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a light-hearted gift at their talks last Friday night to symbolize the Obama administration’s desire for a new be...

Anyone can learn Dick Cheney's methods. Here is an executive summary....

Reading William Kristol's column in yesterday's New York Times, I discover that Sarah Palin and I have something in common. Kristol, who was once Dan Quayle's chief of staff and therefore, shall we say, has a Mister Rogers approach to certain politicians, got Palin on the phone and reported that "sh...

For days now, television viewers have watched Sarah Palin unable to explain the significance of her home state's bordering Russia, unable to name a Supreme Court ruling she disagrees with, unable to name a single newspaper she reads....

Bummed that you missed that spectacular congressional trip last month to Slovenia and Italy? Not to worry. There's an even better one leaving tomorrow for . . . drumroll . . . the Galapagos!...

Bummed that you missed that spectacular congressional trip last month to Slovenia and Italy? Not to worry. There's an even better one leaving tomorrow for . . . drumroll . . . the Galapagos!...

Theories abound about what qualities Barack Obama and John McCain should be looking for in a running mate. Does Obama need someone who'd bring instant credibility on national security and foreign policy to off-set McCain's charges of inexperience and naivete? How important is it for McCain, 24 years...

While both parties are throwing around VP prospects, some of argued that VP’s don’t really matter. Oh, really?  Tell that to Dick Cheney.  Still there’s also a much more comic example…remember Dan Quayle?  Well, here are two classic videos from that disaster of...

Pundits love the veepstakes. But they're mostly wrong....

How presidential nominees choose their running mates....