In the two months since the man nicknamed “the bullet” took charge, John McCain’s campaign has grown harder-edged and more combative, relentlessly attacking Barack Obama’s perceived assets, including his promise to be a change agent.

A setback for the Bush administration came from a Bush appointee and former Kenneth Starr associate today.

How is Vice President Dick Cheney connected to both the TV show Friends and Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzerelli, a character in the TV show Happy Days?

Vice President Dick Cheney has been flaunting his position as a lame duck. With just a few months left in office, he isn’t worried about whom he offends.

The New York Times is backing down - somewhat - on a controversial ad placed by the liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org that infuriated conservatives.

Under the headline “General Petraeus or General Betray Us?” the full-page ad contended that the American commander in Iraq was “constantly at war with the facts” in giving upbeat assessments of progress and refusing to acknowledge that Iraq is “mired in an unwinnable religious civil war … Today, before Congress and before the American people, General Petraeus is likely to become General Betray Us.”