By JAY AMBROSE, Scripps Howard News Service

Hillary Rodham Clinton has confessed the whole thing. She has left out few major sins. She sat down with The New York Times to outline her economic plans if elected president, and we now know the sad, sordid facts -- how confused the senator is and how intent she is on ruinous policies.

Here we are, in what could be the start of a serious economic downturn, and what do the top Democratic candidates for president want to do?Among their many economically uninformed, downright stupefying ideas, one is to craft some new multilayered version of the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, or at least that's what it sounds like.

Sure, he has his flaws, and he is out of sync with some long-revered positions of his Republican Party. But Rudolph Giuliani brings a mightily impressive resume to his race for president of the United States, and it is something on the order of crazy that he has fallen so quickly and so far from his standing as GOP front-runner.

It's not easy being in the news business, because, after all, there's so much for people to know in this big, booming democracy of ours and so little time to convey the information. If you aren't constantly on your toes, you might miss reporting some minute element of one of the biggest stories of the era.The Britney Spears saga.

It was one of those now-you-see-it, now-you-don't moments in the New Hampshire debate between the Republican presidential candidates, a couple of minutes of discussion gone before you knew it.

"America in Search of Itself" is what the late Theodore White called a book of his about the presidential elections between 1956 and 1980.

Part of me has been saying, yeah, fine, it's good to see John McCain back in the presidential race for real, but then I have second thoughts.

I know this sounds far-fetched, but in their deep concern about saving energy, some congressional leaders meeting in secret have come up with an idea that goes by the code name "TCM." The

In reacting to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan, only one of the presidential candidates, Bill Richardson, said something totally, irrevocably, scarily stupid, although a couple of o

You probably had to grow up in the 1950s or earlier to know deep in your bones just how radically the reputation of J.