Friday Morning News Roundup I continue to be amazed at how Senator Ronald Burris has gone from political genius to a national embarrassment. Now it appears that former Governor Rod Blagojevich hired Ronald Burris, II , as senior counsel, for the state’s Housing Authority in mid-September. This...

It figures that the first Democratic candidate for Governor of Texas nominated after the state's former Governor, George W. Bush, injected his pestilence of suck first on the heart of Texas, and subsequently on the entire globe, could be a Bush appointee. It would certainly support the rather credib...

A pair of former senators recently decided that charity is the best way to get rid of some excess political cash -- albeit in somewhat unusual fashion....

Now that John McCain is the official Republican Presidential nominee, it's time to think about who will be his Vice President. When this question first arose several weeks ago, names like "Romney" and "Lieberman" came up. Now we can confirm that McCain's running mate will probably be a lady! Two emp...

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:...

Vice President Cheney signed on to a brief filed by a majority of Congress yesterday that urged the Supreme Court to uphold a ruling that the District of Columbia's handgun ban is unconstitutional, breaking with his own administration's official position....

Vice President Cheney signed on to a brief filed by a majority of Congress yesterday that urged the Supreme Court to uphold a ruling that the District of Columbia's handgun ban is unconstitutional, breaking with his own administration's official position....

We still have a ways to go before the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations are officially decided. But it's not too soon to start thinking about the selection of running mates....