Please live up to your reputation: A person to watch will be incoming minority leader Mitch McConnell, one of the Senate’s canniest operators. After wrangling with McConnell for years over campaign-finance reform, Senator John McCain declared, “There are few things more daunting in politics than the determined opposition of Senator McConnell.” President Bush does not…

I remember last year when people were upset because sales clerks weren’t saying “Merry Christmas” and I thought it was silly. I could care less what the clerk says to me, just give me my correct change, that’s all I want at the end of a transaction. But Wal-Mart has learned its lesson: don’t mess…

Lieberman has now become one of the most powerful members of the Senate and he is smart to keep the Democrats on the edge, not getting too comfortable with what he will do: Sen. Joe Lieberman on Sunday repeated his pledge to caucus with Senate Democrats when the 110th Congress convenes in January, but refused…

For those who voted for change in our war on terror policy because you are tired of the war, I hate to be the barrier of bad news but the war is going to go one for a very long time. From Britain: I have been Director General of the Security Service/M15 since 2002. Before…

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