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• Politics, Palin good for ‘Saturday Night Live’
NEW YORK - The politics-fueled ratings train of "Saturday Night Live" keeps rolling along this election season with Tina Fey's impersonations of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin luring viewers. "SNL" averaged a 7.4 household rating/18 ...
• McCain's last chance, or a chance to shine?
A week is a year and a month a lifetime in politics. It is an interactive universe; straight-line extrapolations are worse than useless. Still, the clock is winding down on McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin in their race to catch senators Barack Obama and ...
• McCain pins hopes on high-stakes debate
We can't afford a politics that's all about tearing opponents down instead of lifting the country up." Some Republicans, while defending McCain's recent tactics, feel he needs to engage voters on the issues, not character, to overtake Obama. Scott ...
• Politics of bailout engrossing, dumbfounding
In the latest episode of the financial drama “Credit Crunch,” the President, the Presidential candidates, and congressional leaders from both parties gather in the White House to agree on a seven-hundred-billion-dollar bailout for the very ...
• Kenya deports U.S. author of anti-Obama book
Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality," came just hours before he was to launch his book in a country where the U.S. Democratic candidate for president is wildly popular. Corsi was detained at immigration headquarters in Nairobi for not having ...