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Will Olympia Snowe Fall in Maine?

By Froma Harrop
Go visit potato country at the tippy-top of Maine. There, struggling farmers can look across the St. John River at equally hard-pressed potato growers in New Brunswick, Canada. The big difference between them...

The Health Care Bill Vote and Election Day

By Dick Morris
If the House Democratic majority passes Obama's health care proposals, one of two things will happen by Election Day, 2010 -- and neither one will be healthy for the Democrats seeking re-election...

Ronald Reagan on the $50 Bill - Why Stop There?

By Steve Chapman
When I heard about the proposal to replace Ulysses S. Grant with Ronald Reagan on the $50 bill, I had two thoughts. The first: Grant is on the $50 bill? The second: Jimmy Carter is going to be furious...

Congressman John Conyers Wife Using Taxpayer Funded Appeal for Bribery Deal

By Debra Saunders
Another funny thing happened in what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promised would be "the most ethical Congress in history." Monica Conyers, the wife of House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers...

President Obama and Education Reforms

By Dick Morris
To date, the only area I have found in agreement with President Obama was over his announced intention to enforce strict and elevated education standards and move toward paying teachers based...

Money & Medicine - Transplant and Bone Marrow Economics

By Steve Chapman
Consider the economics of an organ transplant. Everyone involved gets something of value. The doctors and nurses are paid. The hospital receives money. The organ recipient gets something that will save...

Tea Party Brings Energy, Change and Tumult to GOP

By Michael Barone
The political commentariat doesn't know what to make of those thousands of Americans who have spontaneously thronged to tea parties and town hall meetings to oppose the big government programs...

Fear and Courage on the Health Care Campaign Trail

By Debra Saunders
As a candidate for president, Sen. Barack Obama rejected "the politics of fear." Well, he won. So now he's playing the fear card to the hilt.  Monday, President Obama went to Strongsville, Ohio, to warn...

Crist-Rubio Battle in Florida - Results a Bellwether for Direction of GOP in 2010?

By Matt Towery
I knew that I must have been off pretty badly when I casually wrote in this national column that Florida Gov. Charlie Crist would be a good example of a Republican that voters in critical swing states could accept...

Dems in DC Are Stuck With a Mess of Their Own Making

By Michael Barone
There's a lively debate going on in the blogosphere and the press about whether Democrats would be better off passing or not passing a health care bill.  Some liberals claim that Democrats would be better...