Can Joe the Plumber change the course of this campaign?

Earlier this month, the left-wing magazine the Nation highlighted Joe Therrien as a symbol of the Occupy Wall Street movement. A New York City public school drama teacher, Therrien was frustrated with the shortcomings of the school system. So he quit his job and "set off to the University of Connecticut to get an MFA in his passion — puppetry."

President Obama sees himself as a pragmatist holding GOP ideologues at bay in debt-limit talks. Not even close.

Recent bad news in unemployment confirmed that the biggest Keynesian stimulus in U.S. history was a bust, and as policymakers considers how to now stimulate the economy, reduced tax rates are the best alternative.

How should an honest fiscal conservative view Obama's tax plan?

The Republican Party faces an excruciating and divisive choice between two very different futures.

The Democrats' shellacking in the midterms doesn't mean that Obama will lose in 2012.

The House vote Thursday night was a delayed consequence of the public's long-apparent rejection of Democrat policies.