Sweet Jesus! What has gotten into the Democratic Party when it comes to issues of faith? On Sunday, CNN will broadcast the Compassion Forum, an event hosted by CNN's Campbell Brown and Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham. It will explore issues of faith and morality with Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. This is the...

Ask any boxing trainer and he'll tell you that you can walk into the ring with a well-designed plan to beat your opponent, but as the fight progresses, you might have to alter your plan. After losing 11 straight races to Sen. Barack Obama, Sen. Hillary Clinton was faced with a tough choice: continue on the same path and keep losing or shake up your...

In 2006, Congress passed a law to spend more than $7 billion to build a fence to secure our Mexican border. Less than two weeks ago, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced at a news conference that a high-tech "virtual fence" project along part of the U.S. border with Mexico finally was ready for service as a substitute fo...

"Now, I have to say, when it came to making the most important foreign policy decision of our generation, the decision to invade Iraq, Sen. Clinton got it wrong," Barack Obama said Sunday in response to a Clinton campaign ad that suggests only Hillary Clinton would be ready to answer a late-night emergency phone call to the White House. &...

The day before Missouri's Democratic primary, a mailer zipped across the state from "Paid for by Hillary Clinton for President" in Arlington, Va. It came with this charge against Sen. Barack Obama: "He wants to raise Social Security taxes by a trillion dollars." Now if that didn't set older tongues wagging, nothing will. Few had...

Just as the ruthless regime of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro declared that it was gasping for its last breath of air last week, Sen. Barack Obama shamefully was sending oxygen to Havana. In his most recent debate with Sen. Hillary Clinton, only two days after Castro announced his resignation, Obama said that as president of the United States, he woul...

The Democratic candidates have landed, just in from somewhere out there in the stars. The surprise is that Hillary's from Mars, and Barack Obama's from Venus. She's tough; he's nice. She's strident; he's soothing. She insists that she's hard enough — even mean enough when it comes to that — and ready to be commander in chief on day one....

Eleven days. That's how long Sen. Hillary Clinton has left either to extend this Democratic presidential campaign and fight for the nomination or to see her longtime ambition disappear, possibly forever. Her husband has made it clear already that the junior senator from New York must beat the junior senator from Illinois in Texas and Ohio, or this ...

Outrage! MSNBC's David Shuster, sitting in for Tucker Carlson, criticized the use by Sen. Clinton of her daughter, Chelsea. Shuster said, "Doesn't it seem like Chelsea is being pimped out in some weird sort of way?" Well!!! Clinton's communications director, Howard Wolfson, threatened to pull out from a planned debate. MSNBC quickly offer...

After all the unforeseen twists and turns of the Democratic race for president this year, after all the times we thought one particular primary or interest group would be the one that would prop one candidate above all others, it is Latino voters in Texas who finally may determine who will be the Democratic nominee. Latinos make up more than one-th...