Tombstone, Ariz., has nothing on Washington, D.C. Friday's financial OK Corral took place when federal politicians had a standoff over the mother of all bailout bills. Bullets called ballots were fired from both congressional houses and the White House. And when the smoke cleared, the bad guys appeared: Bush, Paulson, Barney Frank, Pelosi, Dodd and...

Ward Cleaver turns to his wife and says, "Gosh, June, how are we goin' to explain to Wally and the Beave that I just got laid off from my job of 25 years, our 401(k) tanked in the '08 market crash, and we can't get loans to send them to community college, much less Harvard, Yale or Princeton?" To which June turns off the Hoover, knocks b...

The final push is on in the race between John McCain and Barack Obama for the White House. In a recent article, Neal Peirce, of the Washington Post Writers Group, wrote: "It's been 20 years since drugs and prisons have even been mentioned in the televised presidential debates. Maybe not just Obama, but McCain too could surprise us with some fr...

When Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain step onto the stage Tuesday night in Nashville, Tenn., for their second presidential debate, Americans shouldn't expect to see two candidates praised for not making a mistake, stringing together a coherent sentence, or proving who can look into the camera more often. This is the most ticked that I have been s...

She passed. He passed. Palin fared better going against Joe Biden than Katie Couric. Sure, she had moments when she seemed to be working too hard trying to remember what she was supposed to say so she awkwardly regurgitated a string of campaign buzzwords. Who cares? She didn't crash. And she showed Americans a candidate who does not speak Beltway-s...

McCain loses — the first debate, that is. Blown opportunities? Let us count the ways: Obama says, without rebuttal, that his plan lowers taxes on "95 percent of working families." This is flatly impossible because 32 percent of income tax returns filed (some 43 million Americans) pay absolutely nothing in federal income taxes. Obama...