The 13-minute Obama campaign video on John McCain and the Keating savings & loan industry fiasco.

It's all negative all the time now in the TV ad wars. For once, Team Obama has stolen a march on...

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin discussing when she would deploy "nucular weaponry," the "be-all, end-all of just too many people in too many parts of our planet," as she put it in last night's vice presidential debate. She...

Paul Newman, seen here in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, passed away last night.

The man whose picture has been in my refrigerator for 25 years has passed away. That would be Paul Newman, who said...

After easily winning its war with Georgia, Russia makes a big move into Latin America and the Caribbean with this tightening alliance with Venezuela.

Let's face it. This has been a disappointing campaign. Two very interesting candidates....

John McCain's statement "suspending" his campaign, in which he proposes to postpone the first presidential debate.

Well, that was, ah, sudden. Yesterday, as I've reported on my New West Notes, John McCain campaign topper Steve...

John McCain's new TV ad, amidst an epic global financial crisis, does not discuss the crisis but posits Barack Obama as product of "the corrupt Chicago political machine."

In the midst of the biggest financial crisis since...

Barack Obama's campaign finally hits John McCain for top economic advisor Phil Gramm, a principal deregulator. But Obama's vagueness thus far on solutions to the financial crisis leaves him vulnerable in our Hobbesian media culture.

It's not...

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, in this New West Notes video, during happier days with fellow Republicans at the 2007 California Republican Party convention.

A remarkable political debacle here in California points up the intransigence and hypocrisy not infrequently...

Not only has Moscow not become isolated in the wake of its Georgian war, it has grown more expansive, participating this week for the first time in an OPEC meeting. Russian strategic bombers arrived in Venezuela for...

John McCain's new TV ad claims the only thing Barack Obama has accomplished in education is sex ed for 5-year olds.

It's important to step back from the hourly yip-yap of the campaign to understand what's really...

The late legendary football coach Bill Walsh, part of that vanishing group of moderate Republicans, supported Gary Hart for president in the 1980s. His elegant yet ruthless strategies point the way to Barack Obama's victory.

Barack Obama's...

Alaska Governor and former Wasilla Mayor Sarah Palin, on the biggest night of her political career.

So, after Wednesday night's spectacle of an intensively-rehearsed Sarah Palin whipping up the Republican convention crowd, what will be for her?...

Former McCain and Schwarzenegger chief strategist Mike Murphy and former Reagan chief speechwriter Peggy Noonan say what they really think about the Palin Pick.

What a bizarre week in presidential politics for Barack Obama to mount...

Surprise Republican vice presidential pick Sarah Palin says "Drill, drill, drill" on conservative pundit Larry Kudlow's cable TV show.

Sarah who?

John McCain, after a lengthy tease of multiple candidates, including word early this morning on Fox...

Bill Clinton wows the Democratic National Convention last night in Denver.

No big-time Democrat got more sideways with the rise of Barack Obama than the big dog himself, Bill Clinton. Wouldn't it be ironic if it turned...

John McCain's press release TV ad playing up Joe Biden's criticism of Barack Obama and praise of McCain.

While the Democrats continue rolling out their convention and the Obama-Biden ticket, Team McCain is playing it tough, trying...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad offered to host Russian offensive missiles as a sort of "counterweight" to the proposed US anti-missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic.

Given how tentative Barack Obama is in discussing geopolitics, his...

The Dark Knight, matching America's dark mood, has swiftly rocketed up to the #2 position on the all-time domestic box office list.

A lot of chatter about veeps, much more focus on the Olympics. There's one...

Barack Obama is about to launch this new ad during Olympics telecasts.

At last, the universe is as it should be. Two new ads for the Olympics from the two campaigns. And this time, they're both positive!...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev yesterday in Moscow.

Russian politics is very tough. While I'm no expert, I've followed it for many years. In 1994, when the State Department placed a former top...