As I was being interviewed recently at my Texas ranch by Geraldo Rivera, I thought back over my four decades in acting and how the pool of conservative "tough guys" seems to be drying up in Hollywood. Or are liberal waters just getting too hot for conservatives? Then I recalled that The Washington Times recently reported, "A group of...

I believe a revolution is coming to America. Just as Hurricane Ike slammed into my home state of Texas, I am more and more convinced as every year passes that a needed voter revolution is brewing and will arrive imminently at America's shores and ballot boxes. The birth pains for this voter revolution can be seen through the highs and lows of curre...

Many folks don't even know who Bob Barr is, much less that he is running for president as the Libertarian nominee. The question is whether enough people will come to know the former Republican congressman by November to allow Barr's candidacy to really matter. In many ways it's in Barr's hands whether he ends up becoming a material factor. The form...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Agents for Sen. Hillary Clinton, trying desperately to keep alive her presidential campaign, are privately telling Democrats that she is so "tight" with a dollar that she would not continue her contest against Sen. Barack Obama if she did not have a chance to win. That was a reference to Clinton pulling $11 millio...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Close-in supporters of Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign are convinced he never will offer the vice presidential nomination to Sen. Hillary Clinton for one overriding reason: Michelle Obama. The Democratic front-runner's wife did not comment on other rival candidates for the party's nomination, but she has been snip...

Are we having fun yet? The run-ups to the voting in Indiana and North Carolina kept Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama working on their performance art (and who knew that Ron Paul was still in the Republican race, but he won 7 percent of the vote in Indiana). Hillary joked slyly with George Stephanopoulos that Rush Limbaugh once had a crush on her. A...

I reported here last December that I had figured out a different retirement diversion - an endeavor allowing me to "do good" (if you pardon the slight diversion from proper grammar) and "feel good" at the same time. And even make a modest salary. I would run for public office in my Maryland county, 50 miles northwest of Washingt...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Reserve's unprecedented bailout of Bear Stearns was crafted not at the White House or Treasury, but in secret by a New York central banker whose name is unknown to Washington power brokers and was a Clinton administration presidential appointee. "It's a new day," commented an investor and longtime Fed ...

JOHN MCCAIN-SAM BROWNBACK: A darling of the Religious Right, the Republican senator from Kansas bowed out before the presidential race got interesting. He has since endorsed McCain and defended him against other Double Rs as being authentic. With Brownback, author of "From Power to Purpose: A Remarkable Journey of Faith and Compassion," M...

A significant slice of Hillary Clinton's supporters — that is, moderate Democrats — might prefer McCain over Obama, or so I speculated a few weeks back. It was a hunch based on conversations and some suggestive but hardly definitive poll numbers. Critics of this view waved numbers showing more support for Obama than for Clinton among in...