Romney Faces a ‘B...

Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics Last week, I wrote a piece suggesting that Mitt Romney's path to the presidency wasn't necessarily narrow. Rather, the breadth of that path will depend on "environmental" factors that could ultimately push him well past the 286...

Z-Gate & the Sancti...

Geoff Shepard, RealClearPolitics Jeff Himmelman’s revelation in his April 29th New York Magazine article ("Red Flag in the Flowerpot") — that Carl Bernstein really had interviewed a Watergate grand juror — is breath-taking in its implications....

Facebook: The Ultimate ...

John Cassidy, The New Yorker History will record that Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t the first college student to have the idea of enabling people to set up Web pages and share stuff with their friends. Yesterday, my colleague Silvia Killingsworth wrote about the Winklevoss twins, two...

Panic Time for the Obam...

Michael Barone, DC Examiner Is it panic time at Obama headquarters in Chicago? You might get that impression from watching events — and the polls — over the past few weeks.In matchups against Mitt Romney, the president is leading by only 47 to 45 percent in the...

Believing in Obama...

Charles Blow, New York Times You gotta have faith. Democrats have it. Republicans don't. That is the finding of a USA Today/Gallup poll that was released on Tuesday. The poll found that: Go here to read the rest:  Believing in...

And the Readers’ ...

What It Was , George Pelecanos’ latest hard-boiled detective novel set in 1970s-era D.C., will join Martin and Ben’s book picks at Politics & Prose next month. [ more › ] See the rest here: And the Readers’ Pick for Politics & Prose...

D.C. Looks Into Non-Res...

Not many out-of-towners send their kids to D.C. public schools, but many of those that do don’t pay what they owe. It’s especially expensive for D.C. when it comes to special education. [ more › ] Here is the original: D.C. Looks Into Non-Residents Who Attend D.C. Public...

Korean War Memorial is ...

A postage stamp first issued in 2003 could wind up costing the United States Postal Service quite a bit if an appeals court sides with the artist who claims his work was appropriated without his permission. [ more › ] Here is the original post:  Korean War Memorial is...

Big Government: The Gra...

Bernie Marcus, IBD Since the financial crisis and throughout the sluggish economic recovery, working families and small-business owners have watched as the federal government has engaged in a grand experiment in government-led economic engineering. That experiment has...

One by One, Obama Targe...

Erin McPike, RealClearPolitics President Obama is attempting to shore up the 2008 coalition that helped him achieve a decisive victory over John McCain, but he is doing so in a more piecemeal way this time around.As an incumbent, Obama's method is to target various constituencies...