Recent Votes

• European leaders add to rising fears of breakup

  European officials are playing a dangerous game of chicken with Greece. In an apparent signal to Greek voters, the head of the World Bank warned Thursday that if Athens were to depart from the common currency, Spain and Italy could well be the next dominoes to fall in Europe&rsq …

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• Six-term Senate veteran Lugar defeated in Indiana primary

  Updated at 9:50 p.m. ET:  Republican foreign policy elder statesman Sen. Richard Lugar, 80, first elected to the Senate in 1976, was defeated in the Indiana primary Tuesday by state Treasurer Richard Mourdock, who was backed by conservatives ranging from the National Rifle  …

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• Obama tries to fool all of the people and pleases none

  Source: The Washington Post

  President Bill Clinton had the ability to seem moderate to moderates and liberal to liberals, perhaps because he was a little of both (and a superb, shameless poser). President Obama, however, has the ability to seem moderate to liberals and liberal to moderates, and he is  …

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• The Constitution and I

  Time magazine a few weeks ago did a cover on the idea that the only heaven that counts is the one here on Earth, which should be established by high-minded, benevolent, educated people for the good of us in the unwashed, ignorant mob. In fact, the anonymous editorialist proc …

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• Austerity is a dirty word in Europe but what next?

  The day after Francois Hollande rode to power in France on a slogan of "change now" the conversation in Europe is already different: Austerity has become a dirty word.

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