Barack Obama: Father's Day Speech  —  Barack celebrated Father's Day today by speaking at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago.  He began by quoting the Sermon on the Mount, in which Jesus closes by saying, “Whoever hears these words of mine, and does them, shall be likened to a wise man who built his house upon a rock.”

Gallup Daily: Obama-McCain Race Reverts to Virtual Tie  —  Percentage undecided now 15%, highest of the year  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Voters are closely divided between Barack Obama and John McCain in Gallup Poll Daily tracking conducted June 12-14, with 44% of national registered voters favoring …

McCain Takes Gitmo Ruling Personally  —  Why Does GOP Candidate Scorn Supreme Court's Affirmation Of Right Of Habeus Corpus?  —  (CBS) John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, told a crowd of supporters in New Jersey Friday that the Supreme Court's latest Guantanamo Bay ruling is …

The Associated Press to Set Guidelines for Using Its Articles in Blogs  —  The Associated Press, one of the nation's largest news organizations, said that it will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites …

Michelle Obama in for ‘Very Ugly Stuff’  —  She's the New Woman Conservatives Love to Hate  —  Like Eleanor Roosevelt and Hillary Clinton before her, Michelle Obama is becoming the would-be first lady conservatives love to hate.  —  The conservative National Review recently showed …

A Book Club Courts Liberals  —  The progressive movement has prided itself on its ability to get its messages out by harnessing the Internet, through organizations like MoveOn.org and blogs like Daily Kos or The Huffington Post.  —  But now a liberal-minded group is returning to an old-fashioned model: a book club.

Face The Nation: Jindal Thinks Intelligent Design Should Be Taught With Evolution  —  I try very hard to be tolerant of others' beliefs.  I don't pretend to have all the answers and I certainly don't want to begrudge others answers that work for them.  However, I draw the line …

Officials Fear Bomb Design Went to Others  —  WASHINGTON — Four years after Abdul Qadeer Khan, the leader of the world's largest black market in nuclear technology, was put under house arrest and his operation declared shattered, international inspectors and Western officials are confronting a new mystery …

Election 2008: Arkansas Presidential Election  —  Arkansas: Clinton Supporters Help Pull Obama Within Single Digits  —  The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Arkansas shows John McCain leading Barack Obama 48% to 39%.  That's a stunning improvement for Obama who trailed by twenty-four points a month ago.

ONE ANGRY MAN  —  Is Keith Olbermann changing TV news?  —  It was nearly midnight before Keith Olbermann left the NBC News election studio on May 13th, having spent five hours on the air, co-anchoring coverage of the West Virginia Democratic primary.  Olbermann had a short ride home …

Two Bubbles, Two Paths  —  LATELY more and more people have been questioning the received wisdom about what a central bank should do when confronted by an asset price bubble.  That piece of wisdom, shared by Alan Greenspan and Ben S. Bernanke, the former and present Federal Reserve chairmen …

McCain has diluted his rare reputation  —  John McCain once had the most powerful brand in American politics.  —  He was often called the country's most popular politician and widely admired for his independent streak.  It wasn't too many years ago that “maverick” was the cliche of choice in describing him.