David Post

In the early 1970s, the late comedian Pat Paulsen wrote a book called “How to Wage a Successful Campaign for ...

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said he’s been reading “The Hunger Games” to relax. Me, too. Romney is reading ...

Mitt Romney was right when he introduced Paul Ryan as the “next President of the United States” in Norfolk, Va ...

$5 Billion!

Fifty-some laws. Most were meaningless.

That’s the Congressional record for 2012.

Largely dominated by the newly energized ...

Please don’t tell anyone, but some of my friends are evangelical conservative Republicans, my political polar opposites.

I am ...

“Don’t worry, Dad. I’m OK,” my son slurred into my phone.

I was at lunch with a friend ...

I am Joe the Plumber. It hit me, as I finished my tax return last week and wrote a check ...

Forty years ago, I won what became my family’s first "Dodo of the Year" award. Instead of calling me ...

How rich is Mitt Romney compared to other presidents? His most recent tax return proves that he's worth a cool quarter billion. So, where would that rank? He’d be behind only President George Washington. But unlike Washington, Romney didn’t inherit his wealth. He earned it.

The cup magician, a small business job creator, has a tax question. How much tax should he pay on the money in his hat? Is it earned income with a possible 35-percent rate? Or can an imaginative tax guru figure a way to characterize this process as investment income, perhaps as a dividend from the capital investment in the cups and sponge ball, resulting in the lower 15-percent rate?

Since Franklin Roosevelt was president, Republicans and Democrats have created diametrically opposite methods for choosing their presidential nominees.

2011 was so much fun in Congress. Will 2012 offer the same? The House of Representatives convened on Tuesday, January 17th, and the Senate will return next week. The fun hasn’t quite started yet, but it will and it will be loud.

Superman! Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound ...

“A house divided against itself cannot long endure,” Abraham Lincoln so eloquently said. More than ever, since then, the country ...