A good day for Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul, and Rick Perry. A bad day for everyone else.

While most of the Republican field was at the Iowa State Fair, Rick Perry was in South Carolina shaking up the field.

Time for the spinning of the straw poll results to begin.

Iraq has become so dependent on Iran for its survival that it is endorsing the brutal tactics of Bashar Assad.

The IBM PC was introduced 30 years ago. Has its time passed?

Denying the Tea Party’s role in the downgrade of U.S. debt is to deny reality.

Although he didn’t get the words quite right yesterday, Mitt Romney was exactly right about corporations.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Last night’s debate was definitely more combative than previous renditions.

State-level job approval numbers seem to suggest that the President could have Electoral College worries in 2012.

Examining the impact of current events requires stepping back from them just a little bit.

Rick Perry’s entry into the race could quickly turn the 2012 GOP fight into a two man race.

What you think you know about the U.S.-China trade relationship may not be entirely true.

Should President Obama call Congress back into session? Not if there’s nothing to do he shouldn’t.

Michele Bachmann is claiming that the debt downgrade proves she was right about not raising the debt ceiling.

The Obama re-election campaign is preparing an extraordinarily negative campaign against Mitt Romney.

Michele Bachmann’s view of history is based in a world view that would be foreign to most Americans.

Any politician telling you that solving our problems will be easy is lying to you.

The defense spending lobby is already engaging in fear-mongering over very modest defense cuts.

The primary calendar is going to look very different next year.

We are being warned once again that the Postal Service is on the verge of financial collapse. There really is only one solution.