I was unaware until this week that I possess a lisp and am a "satanic hack" and a "racist punk." And then the real calumny began. I was labeled -- hold your breath, dear...

It's almost as if they take pride in being ignorant," Barack Obama mused the other day, blasting Republicans for ridiculing his exhortation to the nation to make sure its...

I want to speak briefly about the issues at stake in this election, and about the choice that we face. I have been called a maverick. Sometimes it is meant as a...

During the opening weeks of this general election campaign, John McCain's advisers were fixated on the phenomenon they were up against. It became an article of faith at...

WASHINGTON -- There is now one question in American politics: With the Republican Party in such bad shape -- measured by polls, voter registration and general enthusiasm...

In his 1937 "Great Contemporaries," Winston Churchill wrote, "Whatever else may be thought about (Hitler's) exploits, they are among the most remarkable in the whole...

Britney Spears, blah blah blah. Paris Hilton, blah blah blah. Faces of presidents on dollar bills, blah blah blah. Every presidential campaign has its silly...

They told me -- back in the days when I had three little boys ages 4 and under -- that while those early years might be tumultuous and exhausting, the payoff for crazed...

HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan -- To Americans of my generation and older, the Korean War is the "Forgotten War." For this generation, it's Afghanistan -- or to be...

WASHINGTON -- A year ago, it was impossible to get through a day without some mention of Paris Hilton -- the ingenue famous mostly for being famous. Oh, how we...

WASHINGTON -- When you put the Olympics in the hands of a dictatorship, the results are predictable. Yet the Chinese government still found a way of surprising even its...

WASHINGTON -- Bring on the Olympics. Please. When Paris Hilton dominates the presidential campaign for a whole week, even spelling out a plan for achieving energy...

WASHINGTON -- Let's see: housing meltdown, credit crunch, oil shock not seen since the 1970s. The economy is slowing, unemployment growing and inflation increasing. It's...

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) COLMES: . girl supporter asked Barack Obama yesterday while why he was running for president. And the Illinois senator offered what, I...

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) GEORGE BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: I have spoken clearly and candidly and consistently with China's leaders about our...

Bogota, Colombia - While Colombia has gone great guns in quashing the narcoterrorist FARC insurgency here - including a daring July hostage-rescue raid - trouble is still...

In less than three months millions of Americans will go to the polls to choose the next president of the United States. For the first time since 1952, neither the...

ELKHART, Ind. -- Barack Obama is cranking up the populist rhetoric. He'll sock oil companies with a windfall profits tax to give American families a $1,000 "energy...

Barack Obama and John McCain are running neck and neck. Impossible? It would seem so. Republican President Bush still has less than a 30 percent approval rating....

If there is one issue that brings out the worst in our politicians (and us) it is energy. The debate over a national energy policy is bathed in a miasma of self-serving...