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Throughout our history the vice-presidency has been an evolving institution. For many years the vice-president served merely as the presiding officer of the Senate with little or no involvement with the Administration. Calvin Coolidge (1921-23) was the first...

For all the conflicting criticism (of the constructive kind of course), critical analysis, and unsolicited advice that we have been offering (and will undoubtedly will continue to offer) in such abundance, here at least is something on which all of us agree.

If Barack Obama winds up losing the election this November, most likely a significant portion of the blame will affix to his selection of a running mate. The issue will not have much of anything to do with Senator Joe Biden’s personality or performance. It will simply...

Over in Denver they may not remember it's LBJ's 100th birthday today, but I have the feeling one fellow in Washington hasn't forgotten it - columnist Bob Novak, who with his late partner Rowland Evans wrote Lyndon Johnson: The Exercise Of Power, still one of the most...

Bob Gardner, who at a (relatively) early age is one of the Grand Old Men of San Francisco advertising, wrote a provocative oped for yesterday's Chronicle. From a positive perspective, this is the most uplifting of elections. The Republican candidate comes from a...

Tomorrow night, an African-American will receive the presidential nomination of one of America's two major parties, for the first time in this nation's history. It will be the fulfillment of the dream of countless Americans, of all races. One or another of the parade...

In the midst of reporting about the Saddleback forum, cnn.com provided a flashback to a incident back last December involving Senator McCain and the question of his faith. This was of course when the Senator from Arizona wasn’t the “presumptive” nominee, but a...

......shouldn't be visited on the children. Much less the grandchildren. Just because granddad's gig was an unmitigated disaster for the entire world doesn't mean that you're disqualified from giving it a go in your own time. That's why I think that the notion of...

Gawker today links to a clip it says is from Youtube, though the clip, at this point, cannot be located on Youtube itself.  It is no less than the trailer of Ron Howard's movie Frost/Nixon, starring Frank Langella reprising his acclaimed Broadway performance as...

In the Telegraph (London), Czech-born British TV journalist John Tusa remembers forty years ago today, 21 August 1968, when the Warsaw Pact tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia and crushed the hopes raised by the Prague Spring. Sir John has prepared a series of four...