Creators Syndicate

South Dakota is so rarely found on the leading edge of the far out, the wiggy, the California-esque. But it has now staked its claim. First to Outlaw Abortion This...

With the Bush administration, it's important to have in mind the old carnival con game: Keep your eye on the shell with the pea under it. Among the many curious...

Cynics are fond of meditating on the evil done in the name of reform. I'm a great believer in perpetual reform myself, on the theory that political systems, like houses,...

Of course the jokes are flying all over Texas--What's the fine for shooting a lawyer?--and so forth. Dick-Cheney shooting Harry Whittington is fraught, as they say, with irony. It's not...

I like to think that Republicans are having fun. They're such cards. Talking about energy independence in the State of the Union address, President Bush said America is "addicted" to...

We live in interesting times, we do, we do. We can read in our daily newspapers that our government is launching a propaganda blitz to convince us all that its...

It takes a Texas Republican to get that fine hairline reading on the ethical sensitivity scale we all prize so highly. Thus, it comes as no surprise that a couple...

Boy, you really can't take your eyes off this bunch for a minute, can you? If they're not screwing up one thing, then they're screwing up another--busy little beavers. And...

My theory is that they don't tell him anything; that's why the president keeps sounding like he doesn't know what he's talking about. There he was at Brooke Army Medical...

The first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. Thirty-five years ago, President Richard Milhous Nixon and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover decided some Americans had unacceptable political opinions....