In this telegenic, mass-media age, the health and fitness of presidential candidates often is equated with their fitness to lead.
But should someone's health, vigor and resting pulse rate make a whit of difference as a barometer of performance as
Political rhetoric tends to be overwhelmingly simple while economic analysis is often needlessly complex.
This is not news. But it does make for a big disconnect between what politicians say and what they hope to do — because if they publicly said
We review a few of our past presidents travels and preview some of the travel habits of the two contenders hoping to move into the White House next January.
Two women from Grosse Pointe and Detroit used thousands of dollars of $100 bills that were actually $5 bills to make purchases throughout the tri-county area during the past month using $2300 in fake bills Tuesday alone, police said.
Police arrested
The essence of the RNC. What was maverick about it, again? Images from Day 4 of the GOP Convention Please fill in the following information and we'll email this link. You could make an amusing game of Mad Libs out of this week's Republican National
Brad Meltzer is the best-selling author of such thrillers as The Tenth Justice and The Book of Fate. He’s also one of the most successful writers in comics -- the self-described “nerd” and “superhero fanboy” wrote 2004’s controversial murder-mystery
Gays and lesbians had a big impact a week ago at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, which included nearly 400 GLBT delegates.
The number is much smaller at this week's Republican National Convention. About two dozen of the delegates are
Last night John McCain proclaimed himself the candidate of “the party of Lincoln, Roosevelt and Reagan.”
One of Abraham Lincoln’s most famous speeches was his 1852 eulogy for Henry Clay. “He loved his country partly because it was his own country,”
Experience questions nothing new
Barack Obama served as long as Lincoln did in the Illinois Legislature, and now, as member of the Senate, Obama has tenure as long as Lincoln's in the U.S. Congress.
Like Lincoln, Obama is a lawyer. Lincoln read for
Republican Vice-Presidential candidate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, accepts her party's nomination at the Republican National Convention at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn., Wednesday, September 3, 2008. (Mary F. Calvert / The Washington