By Chris Satullo It’s one of American politics’ most tired gimmicks: A president pauses during a State of the Union speech to call upon guests planted in the House balcony to stand up so they can receive an ovation. Presidents of both parties do it. The practice...
It’s obvious by now, to everyone except Bernie Sanders and his acolytes, that his government health care plan – with its mystery taxpayer price tag, with its vow to eliminate all private coverage – would be political suicide in the November election....
Yogi Berra has a timely warning for the fractured Democratic party. The baseball legend and accidental oracle is reputed to have said, “It gets late early out here.” Translation: Democrats better get their act together – rallying behind a candidate...
The tiny hamlet of Dixville Notch, located in the northernmost New Hampshire, hewed to tradition at midnight today, casting the very first votes in the Democratic presidential primary. Bernie Sanders, whose name was on the ballot, got one vote. Pete Buttigieg, whose...
Donald Trump, fresh from his “acquittal” in a phony trial, went on quite a celebratory rampage late last week, desecrating three venerable institutions: the Presidential Medal of Freedom (he awarded it to career bigot-misogynist-demagogue Rush Limbaugh);...
