By: Christian Science Monitor
Gene Healy
In a famous 1979 television interview, Democratic presidential contender Ted Kennedy flubbed a softball question: "Why do you want to be president?" Mr. Kennedy's sputtering answer did real damage to his campaign. At the recent...
By: Investor's Business Daily
Election '08: The idea of Democrats emerging unified from their acrimonious convention is laughable. If the GOP convention had the Clinton/Obama feud and John Edwards scandal, it would be declared a catastrophe.
You don't have...
By: Christian Science Monitor
Andy Zelleke
In her compelling speech at the Democratic Convention Monday night, Michelle Obama took an important step toward reassuring voters that the Obamas are, at their core, just another American family. With grace, warmth, and a light...
By: Investor's Business Daily
Energy Policy: The speaker of the House touts natural gas as an "alternative fuel like wind." Could it be that this time she's put her money where her mouth is?
Somewhere in the universe there may be a planet where natural gas...
By: Christian Science Monitor
Danna Harman Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
Nine months since President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice hosted the much touted Annapolis Conference on Middle East peace - at which all sides pledged to work toward a settlement by the end of 2008 - Ms. Rice is...
By: Investor's Business Daily
Democrats: Barack Obama isn't the only leader at this week's convention whose ideas border on the socialistic. So do those of party chairman Howard Dean, as demonstrated during his stint as governor of Vermont.
By: PR Newswire
DENVER, Aug. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a transcript of a speech, as prepared for delivery, by The Honorable Nancy Pelosi, at the Democratic National Convention on Monday, August 25,...
By: Christian Science Monitor
Jerome Armstrong
By choosing Joe Biden, Barack Obama has - according to the conventional wisdom - added vital experience and foreign-policy wisdom to his campaign. What he's really done is add an exclamation point to the triumph of cynical,...
By: Christian Science Monitor
the Monitor Editorial Board
Voters aren't likely to hear much before the election about plans to end government support for two giants in home finance, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Yet like house prices, the federally backed entities are on the skids - as...
By: The Monitor (McAllen, Texas)
By Chuck Collins and Sarah Anderson
Taxpayers shouldn't have to subsidize corporate tax dodgers or bloated CEO salaries.
A recent Government Accountability Office study found that two-thirds of U.S. corporations paid no federal income taxes between 1998 and 2005....
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