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* The Democratic convention offered quite a valedictory for both President Obama and Vice-president Biden. Their boffo speeches left a high bar Hillary to clear. Did she? She is not an orator in a league with Barack Obama or Bill Clinton, but she was...

“My biggest, you know, regret is what happened in Benghazi. It was a terrible tragedy…” — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Jan. 27 “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” — “Hamlet&rdquo...

David Frum’s naive delight in what he seems certain is Elizabeth Warren’s completely pure and altruistic populism leads him to insist that she’ll run for president, despite her repeated statements that she will not.  He writes, By now Warren knows ...

I didn’t pay much attention in 1972 when vice-presidential candidate Thomas Eagleton was removed from  the Democratic ticket and replaced by Sargent Shriver after it came to light that Eagleton had a record of psychiatric hospitalizations. I have a pretty...

It’s a classic variation upon the theme of a “straw man argument.” But if you’re like most folks in Alabama, you’re probably so “largely poor, uneducated, and easy to command” to know what that is. So, I’ll tell you. You cite an example of thing you...