Words are funny things. For instance, G.K. Chesterton once remarked that that the word “good” has many uses: “For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of 500 yards, I should call him a good shot but not necessarily a good man.”

The House has nine legislative days left after recess to pass the appropriations bills that make up most of the government we see, and try to reconcile them with the Senate. The chances of that happening before Oct. 1? Zero.

Ornery first-term Republican senators and bomb-throwing conservative activist groups are locking horns again with the Republican establishment.

Chris Christie took to the stage of the Republican Governors’ forum in Colorado yesterday to light into libertarians, the new isolationist strain of the Republican Party, and Rand Paul in particular.  

Famously combative New Jersey Governor Chris Christie came out as a national-security hawk yesterday, but any military expert could tell him that picking a fight without a strategy is a bad idea.

"Even though our businesses are creating new jobs and have broken record profits," President Obama said in his economics address last week, "nearly all the income gains of the past 10 years have continued to flow to the top 1 percent."

‘My rival in this race,” President Obama announced early in 2007, “is not other candidates. It’s cynicism.” Sadly, it’s now evident cynicism won.

Since last November's election there has been a lot of punditry about the fissures and schisms in the Republican party. The divisions are real and some of the commentary has been revealing.

Conservatives on Capitol Hill think they have a chance to strike a mortal blow against President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul this fall. If their plan goes forward, however, it will backfire.

No politician in recent memory has fallen so far, so fast without a sex scandal than Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.