Conclusions Drawn

I bet you didn't know that there's a formal group representing the collected interests of Taco Bell franchisees, and that its acrony...

I'm typically intrigued by the under-reported epilogues to high profile news stories, and this one is no exception.  Yesterday John Edwa...

Jesse Jackson, Jr. is apparently under investigation by the FBI for violation of  campaign finance laws, according to THIS 3 minute video f...

I've been interested in politics for my entire adult life.  But I've never been particularly interested in political conventions.  I...

"A new nationwide analysis of more than 2,000 cases of alleged election fraud over the past dozen years shows that in-person voter im...

"The U.S. health-care system is vastly overspending for a single anemia drug because Medicare overestimates its use by hundreds of mil...

"Just 47 people account for more than half (57.1 percent) of the $230 million raised by super PACs from individual donors, according t...

In addition to being his famous father's son, Jesse Jackson, Jr. is a Congressman from Illinois who has been on Capitol Hill for 17 year...

Charlie Rangel, the scandal-plagued 21 term congressman from New York, declared a surprising victory yesterday in the primary for his redraw...

Last Night, the ABC News program 20/20 aired a new, one hour interview with Rielle Hunter, the mistress of former U.S. presidential candidat...

"An audit program meant to combat Medicaid fraud has cost taxpayers about $102 million since 2008 while identifying less than $20 mil...

I thought THIS Washington Post editorial today incisively analyzed one aspect of yesterday's elections.  It reads in part: "One ...

A new study of all past US Presidents has sought to determine whether being President really took years off their lives.  The fact that, in ...

In the wake of new allegations that presidential candidate Herman Cain had a 13 year affair with an Atlanta businesswoman, Jon Stewart did T...

Jon Stewart began The Daily Show last night with a funny 6 minute analysis of Herman Cain's press conference on Tuesday, at which Cain ...

After one accuser gave a compellingly detailed press conference yesterday, republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has apparently prom...

Jon Stewart was really funny when discussing the Anthony Weiner scandal earlier this year. I thought THIS seven minute clip from The Daily ...

On the Colbert Report last night, Stephen Colbert did THIS 4 minute segment on Michele Bachmann's formal announcement that she is runn...

Do you remember back in the mid-1990s when Bill O'Reilly and Bill Maher were populist, common sense centrists?  I liked them both back t...

Last night on The Daily Show , Jon Stewart did this 3 minute segment critiquing CNN's coverage of the republican primary debate. The...