Controversy over job ‘offers’ for election favors boils over again - The controversy over allegations White House officials at least as high as Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel offered two congressional candidates jobs in return for campaign favors, which apparently would violate the law, is reheating – with a claim that one of the candidates colluded with the White House on what story to tell.

I used to be a Kennedy-style “liberal.” Then I wised up. Now I’m a libertarian.

The astounding response to Ryan Sorba’s chastising of CPAC for allowing sponsorship by GOPride, an anti-marriage, GLBT activist organization, is a troubling reflection of the schizophrenic condition of the conservative movement.

Many folks for various reasons do not want to be involved in the political debate and that is fully understood and respected on many levels. This belief of remaining natural has many facets from folks believing that no matter what their voice will not be heard to just feeling that going through life not worrying about some of the dynamics that actually play out does not affect them directly, and that too is understood.

Federal and state lawmakers are elected to represent the public, but partisan politics and clinging to party lines impedes representatives from fulfilling that purpose. American politics are arguably at the highest levels of polarization this country has witnessed in generations. And while politicians bicker back and forth, and take unnecessary and often derogatory potshots at one another, it is tragically the average middle and lower class citizens who suffer the most. So why all the upheaval with maintaining party solidarity, when an elected official is in his or her office to represent their constituents?

This weekend I’m going to be at Carter Hall in Millwood, VA presenting a lecture on message development for candidates and elected officials. It’s part of the University of Virginia’s Sorenson Institute for Political Leadership.

The ignorance of today’s Americans, about the way their country’s government was designed (By The Founders) to work, is not only lamentable—it is dangerous.

The difference between Conservatives and Progressives, er liberals, er, socialists… (Whatever!)… is now more obvious than ever before—especially now that Americans have seen the Progressives in action.

Everyone is always talking about how corrupt Illinois politics is. Well, it’s been that way since day one. Since I live here (I’ll take your condolences) I thought I’d give a brief history of Cook County, the home of the City of Chicago. 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House sought to downplay differences on Sunday between the two versions of healthcare legislation passed in Congress as Democrats prepared to meld them into one, while a top Republican saw “great unrest” and perhaps more party-switchers among Democrats.

As all citizens should know by now, public opinion polls are very important political tools, which are otherwise of very little value to the world.

It’s been over a year since the election of 2008 and yet Sarah Palin cannot show up in the news without a barrage of vicious attacks from the media. Although she is no longer a candidate for vice president, the vitriol continues to spew over the release of her book, “Going Rogue: An American Life.” Many think the anti-Sarah sentiment stems from her solid pro-life position but there are reasons reasons that go way beyond her feelings about abortion.

On Tuesday November 24th, the day after Big Government broke the story revealing tens of thousands of documents containing sensitive material had been unceremoniously dumped in a trash bin behind the San Diego ACORN office, Attorney General Jerry Brown appeared on Talk Radio KABC’s Peter Tilden Show.

I had the occasion this past week to meet with former Attorney General John Ashcroft. I asked him how he felt when Democrats express outrage about accusations of fascism against the Obama administration.

The November 3 elections showed that President Obama and his statist allies in Congress have set off a political tsunami.