SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - You can't make this stuff up.

So Mark Sanford, the Republican governor from South Carolina, tries to lead people to believe that he was unavailable for a few days because he was hiking the Appalachian Trail.

Rather than perpetuating poverty through further institutionalization of the welfare state, expose poor kids to the values and education necessary to enable them to make the right choices for their lives

President Obama wants health care reform this year.

He said at a town hall meeting the other day that he won't tolerate "endless delay" and that we probably won't reform health care if we don't do it this year.

WASHINGTON - Robert M. Shrum and Tony Blankley, a pair of Democratic/left and Republican/right bookends of the Washington establishment, told a group of 100 media professors that's there's a "new era in D.C."

Virginia has a spirited three-way Democratic Party race for governor that will climax with the primary election Tuesday.

The stakes are high. Democrats have won the last two gubernatorial elections in this traditionally conservative, Republican Commonwealth, and last year the senate chamber tipped to a 21-19 Democratic majority.

o see government health care at work, we don't need to look at Canada
or Great Britain or Cuba. 59 million Americans already have it -- it's
called Medicaid

Some advice to former Vice President Dick Cheney: Cut back the face time on Sunday news/talk shows, and the speeches to think tanks. Cheney risks reminding people of Joseph Goebbels, the evil minister of propaganda whose strategy was keep repeating lies and eventually they become truths.