Full results are not in, but it looks right now like Democrat Bill Owens will win NY-23, tarnishing would should have been a solid night for the GOP. Comfortable wins in the gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia seemed likely to serve as app...

Since our first look at President Obama’s initiative to improve the nation’s power grid, I’ve been digging a bit deeper into some of the security threats which the aging infrastructure poses, as well as the inefficiencies in the cur...

Exactly how important is it to Americans that their elected officials receive a mathematical majority of votes in any given election in order to carry the vaunted mantle of having a “mandate from the people?” And if we see a continuing tr...

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich — who has made noises about running for President before but did not go ahead with it — sounds as if he really intends to throw his hat (and presumably his prolific Twitter feed) into the 2012 Presidenti...

The newest critique against the Federal Government limiting executive salaries in companies that it has essentially saved from liquidation or in which it holds a major ownership interest, is that it will cause a brain drain of the best people to othe...

A man in California wants a ballot measure to ban divorce. His basic point is that if you banned same sex marriage to ‘protect traditional marriage’ then should you not also ban divorce, since it leads to the breakup of 50% of traditional...

According to Ezra Klein, Howard Dean, once thought to be a leading health-care guru in the Democratic Party, thinks that “this bill is worthless and should be defeated” — if it doesn’t include a public option. Like Ezra, and as I’ve written here many...

The full statement from his website, Tiger comments on current events: I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart. I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves. I am not without faults and...

Debate is going on now. Watch it live. The NYTimes: The State Senate scheduled a vote for Wednesday about whether to legalize same-sex marriage, but the outcome remained uncertain with people on both sides of the debate conceding they did not know how...

As expected, it was an admirable speech (transcript), regardless of the questionable content, but, then, we’ve come to expect such lofty rhetorical flights from Obama. The tone was serious, which it had to be, and, on the whole, the president made his...