For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion.

Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.

America may be in a dour condition, but it is not going to elect a dour president.

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.

Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.

In the Democratic primary in 2008, the Obama team devised a strategy to use the caucuses and a complicated system of awarding delegates in the state primaries to sneak up on Hillary Clinton and establish a lead Obama never surrendered.