SAN DIEGO -- It's time to send Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York a slew of calendars.

CINCINNATI -- In Ohio, citizens marched to the polls on Tuesday and voted to allow gambling casinos in the state. This was a obviously a message to President Barack Obama that independent voters are not happy with the way the health care bill is going.

Anthony McKinney got a life sentence for running down the street.

On Nov. 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall was pulled down to the consternation of leftists, who still had faith socialism could work with the right leaders, and to the delight of conservatives, who believed that socialism and communism guaranteed mutually shared p

By John Boehner

WASHINGTON -- I had a four-hour dinner once with Rush Limbaugh at the "21" Club in Manhattan, back in the days when I was still writing profiles as a "reporterette," to use a Limbaugh coinage.

In 2003, I was on a trip to Iraq and had arranged an appointment in the Green Zone with a member of the then-Iraqi Governing Council. Security was tight. I was with my Iraqi translator, a middle-aged man who had once been a teacher.

The good news is that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, aka the Obama stimulus plan, is working the way textbook macroeconomics said it would. But that's also the bad news -- because the same textbook analysis says that the stimulus was far

WASHINGTON -- It's been a year since a healthy majority of American voters elected Barack Obama to change the world. Which is precisely what he's doing.

SAN DIEGO -- What's next? A resurgence of segregated swimming pools, where they only let Mexican-Americans swim on Fridays because they drain the pool on Saturdays? A return to segregated movie theaters, where Latinos sit in the balcony?

WASHINGTON -- Memo to Democrats: You will be defined by President Obama whether you like it or not, so you might as well embrace him for the benefits he can bring you.

Whatever Afghanistan strategy President Obama chooses will hinge on whether U.S. officials can work with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

One of the most macabre images I've ever heard described came in the aftermath of the Asian tsunami in 2004. Before the tidal wave crashed on shore, beachgoers stood around and idly gaped as the water drastically receded. Bewildered, they didn't

One of the most cherished items I own is a postcard that was sent from Mississippi to the Upper West Side of Manhattan in June 1964.

WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama didn't set out to be a "war president," but that's what history compels him to be. The nation and the world are fortunate that he doesn't have the reckless, ready-fire-aim mentality of George W. Bush.

Surely President Obama and his advisors don't really think that their feud with Fox News will do anything but enhance the cable network's viewership. A deeper problem is what the flap over Fox reveals about Team Obama: They still seem to be more

California's elected leaders have been called back to Sacramento for a special session to address California's chronic water shortages.

The on-going saga regarding the downtown stadium, unfortunately, continues. Ten years ago, the drama was about getting the stadium built, and finally it was completed. Half a million people visit the stadium annually and what was once an empty lot now gen

We are gathered here today in sympathy with our brother, Rush Limbaugh.

If you're like me, you have experienced confusion and uncertainty as you analyze health care reform. The issues are complicated, partisan rhetoric is common and our individual health care experiences are relatively limited when contrasted to the real

SAN DIEGO -- Coming from a family that is something of a racial and ethnic stew -- her mother is Afro-Cuban, her father Australian with Irish roots -- CNN's Soledad O'Brien can choose to identify herself in any number of ways.

WASHINGTON -- Now we know the answer to one of the vexing questions of the modern age: Evidently, there is nothing at all that some people won't do to get on television.

I am sympathetic to the story told by Joseph Rocha, who says in a Washington Post opinion column that he was discharged from the Navy because he is gay, though he says he never told anyone. Rocha says his male colleagues concluded he was gay when he would

Building a baseball stadium in downtown Fresno is one of the smartest things this city has ever done. Where before there was a rundown hotel and blighted buildings in a part of town few would ever go (and for the same cost of building a parking structure)