There is no mystery to the missing lightning rods. John McCain neglects to volunteer the names of Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas as model jurists for an obvious reason.   Full Story

Barack Obama -- the charismatic, weakened, patronizing, soaring, prickly, historic, inevitable nominee of the Democratic Party -- is now left with two related problems.   Full Story

The primaries in North Carolina and Indiana, which gave Barack Obama a decisive push toward the Democratic nomination, were wrapped in two ironies.   Full Story

All politicians adapt and mold themselves to fit their audience, but Hillary Clinton has elevated the art of identity politics to a science of morphology.   Full Story

It was a slow news day, what with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright temporarily off the front page and the fifth anniversary of President Bush's "Mission Accomplished" appearance aboard an aircraft carrier having just passed.   Full Story

There are few things in American politics more irrationally ideological, more fanatically faith-based than the accusation that Republicans are conducting a "war on science.   Full Story