Rudy Giuliani: My Bluntness Overshadowed My Message  —  Whether you agreed with me or not, I hope this can be the basis of a real conversation about national leadership.  —  There has been no shortage of news coverage—and criticism—regarding comments I made about President Obama at a political gathering last week in New York.

McConnell fails to deliver  —  After a terrible, bone-breaking accident and two eye surgeries, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the former Senate Majority Leader, is scheduled to be back on Capitol Hill this week.  —  Somehow the bruised Reid looks good compared to the new Republican Majority Leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.).

Why are Americans confused about Obama's religion?  —  Fresh from a controversy over his views on evolution, Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker is now involved in a controversy over his views, or lack of them, on President Obama's religion.  On Saturday, two Washington Post reporters asked Walker …

Walker's anti-union law has labor reeling in Wisconsin  —  KING, Wis. — At the old union hall here on a recent afternoon, Terry Magnant sat at the head of a table surrounded by 18 empty chairs.  A members meeting had been scheduled to start a half-hour earlier, but the small house …

Documents show the expensive tastes of Jeb Bush's low-key wife  —  In 1999, Columba Bush, the famously private wife of then-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, was detained and fined by federal customs officials for misrepresenting the amount of clothing and jewelry she had bought while on a solo five-day shopping spree in Paris.

Ken Silverstein resigns from Pierre Omidyar's First Look Media, blasts ‘dishonest’ leadership  —  Investigative reporter Ken Silverstein has resigned from First Look Media's The Intercept after 14 months, saying he and others were hired “under what were essentially false pretenses [by being] …

Knowledge Isn't Power  —  Regular readers know that I sometimes mock “very serious people” — politicians and pundits who solemnly repeat conventional wisdom that sounds tough-minded and realistic.  The trouble is that sounding serious and being serious are by no means the same thing …

President Obama's cyber pitch misses mark in Silicon Valley  —  The Obama administration is stumbling in its cybersecurity message to Silicon Valley, according to tech executives and a former White House official.  —  The White House recently made a big show of going to Stanford University for a major cybersecurity summit.

Honda CEO Ito to step down, replaced by low-profile engineer  —  (Reuters) - Honda Motor Co (7267.T) Chief Executive Takanobu Ito will step down in late June after six years in the top post and be succeeded by Managing Officer Takahiro Hachigo, a low-profile engineer with global experience …

Hillary Clinton's War on Women  —  Hillary Clinton portrays herself as a champion of women in the workforce, but women working for her in the U.S. Senate were paid 72 cents for each dollar paid to men, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis of her Senate years' salary data.

Rivals Google and Apple Fight for the Dashboard  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — When Google hosted a boot camp here this month for its Android operating system, there were some new faces in the room: auto manufacturers.  —  They made the trip to learn about Android Auto, a new dashboard system meant …

Jeb Bush's Brainless Trust  —  WASHINGTON — I had been keeping an open mind on Jeb Bush.  —  I mean, sure, as Florida governor, he helped his brother snatch the 2000 election.  And that led to two decade-long botched wars that cost tens of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars.