Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.

The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.

What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.

The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can't be allowed to happen.

Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.

Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president.

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.