Florida is practically giddy today over last night s win not for McCain or Clinton but for the sunshine state itself which had its first decisive presidential primary in recent memory A Florida Boost blares the front-page headline of The Miami Herald The state s leading newspaper observed

Senator Barack Obama went fishing for endorsements and landed the equivalent of a thirty-five pound Cape Cod striper Senator Ted Kennedy has decided to endorse Obama the big winner in Saturday s Democratic primary in South Carolina This is big Kennedy s titanic political figure casts a hu

On Meet the Press this morning Senator Hillary Clinton accused her host Tim Russert of being Jesuitical in his argumentation The Jesuit-educated Russert Canisius High School in Buffalo N Y and John Carroll University in Cleveland was pressing Senator Clinton on her 2002 vote to authori

The exit polls from New Hampshire may keep Mike Huckabee awake tonight We all know that Huckabee won in Iowa because of the big turn-out of born-again and evangelical voters And we all knew that Huckabee would carry the evangelical vote in New Hampshire but still lose the primary because there jus

For terminal politicos like me last night was a much coveted but rarely experienced moment of real political drama No one knew what was going to happen in yesterday s Iowa caucuses This just doesn t happen in elections any more and it was fun to watch There is more than enough analysis of th

Adlai E. Stevenson would not have fared well in the 2007 presidential primary debates, though he was perhaps the greatest American orator of the 20th century. “Religious experience is highly intimate,” the two-time presidential candidate once said, “and, for me, ready words are not

Aided by the moral teaching of the church, U.S. Catholics should carefully form their consciences in order to participate in public life, according to a draft document on faith and citizenship prepared by the Administrative Committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and made available to A

Ours is not a Christian nation.

“When life comes forth or life is taken at some point, it’s more than earth, it’s more than buildings, it’s more than weather. It involves transformation. I see it as something to be memorialized."