Columns

The roots of Gov. Scott Walker's recall victory in Wisconsin can be traced to Springfield, Ill.

WASHINGTON -- Forty years ago, all of America learned the name of a particular condominium, hotel and office complex along the Potomac in the nation's capital.

"History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes," said Mark Twain.

President Ronald Reagan said it best:Its not that liberals are ignorant, its just that what they know is wrong. And boy, have they got it wrong over this "voter purge" issue.

Who does Barack Obama listen to?

WASHINGTON -- Among the lessons of this presidential election season, perhaps most salient is that the so-called Ordinary American is dead.

Within days of SEAL Team Six's killing of Osama on that midnight mission in Pakistan, Defense Secretary Bob Gates, reading all about the raid in the press, went to the White House to tell President Obama's national security adviser pungently to "shut the (bleep) up."

Florida voters were sold a bill of goods in 1976 when they voted to quit electing judges at the appellate level -- including the Florida Supreme Court -- and move to what is called "merit retention."

In coming days, Mitt Romney will be taking a page from the gameplan of a winning presidential candidate when he visits crucial battleground states on a bus tour. The gameplan first was carried out by Democratic candidate Bill Clinton in 1992.