Comparisons for the next presidential campaign can be drawn from most any of its predecessors in American history. But lately, the 2012 Republican field is looking a lot like the Republican field of 1968.

The resurgence of Newt Gingrich is similar to, if less serious, than the comeback of Richard…

Had a moderate Nebraska Republican endorsed the Democrat in Pennsylvania’s 2006 U.S. Senate race, there would have been talk about ideological extremism in the Republican Party and what it meant to a blue-leaning swing state for the next presidential election.

Today, such an endorsement is received as a ploy on…

Chris Christie is back from vacation, rested and ready to kick some ass.

At a press conference earlier this week, state senate President Steve Sweeney welcomed back the New Jersey governor and said, “You look great.”

“Bad news for you guys,” Chris quipped.

Aw, it’s funny because it’s true. Because…

PRINCETON, NJ – Recently, a member of the Quayle family made me think.

I know! It wasn’t even Dan, but his son Ben. He’s running for a House seat out in Arizona, trying to make some waves, so he gets all butch in a new commercial in which he declares,…

What the hell did Vice President Joe Biden ever do to anybody? Especially former Virginia Gov. Doug Wilder?

Wilder is an interesting character. The first black man elected governor in modern America, he fancies himself a kingmaker in his Commonwealth, endorsing fellow Democrats and the occasional Republican. Earlier this week,…

It’s not good for New Jersey to have a bar that celebrates the moment when a large intoxicated man punched out a petite young lady over a stolen drink. But stop by The Beachcomber in Seaside Heights and maybe you’ll get to sit in “Snooki’s Chair,” the very…

“Miss Me Yet?” So said the pro-George W. Bush billboard in Minnesota that Rep. Michelle Bachmann took with her to a Republican conference in Washington this past winter. The slogan has gone from an underground whisper to the battlefield rallying cry of the GOP’s most entrenched partisans.

But the…

“I want to say a few words about civil rights,” Robert F. Kennedy said standing atop a chair in a crowded room at the Los Angeles Hotel Biltmore.

It was Monday morning, July 11, the first day of proceedings at the 1960 Democratic National Convention, and RFK was leading a…

ASBURY PARK, NJ—Greetings from Asbury Park! UNLESS YOU ARE EXPOSING YOUR BREASTS. IF SO, WE RESCIND ALL PRIOR GREETINGS.

That was the welcome delivered by Asbury residents at Wednesday night’s city council meeting, which attracted several TV affiliates for its discussion of a topless beach.

In June, the proprietor of…

You know that when Hitler walks into a political debate, civility grabs its coat and heads for the door. Which is why there should be no compunction about saying that Sarah Palin and national Republicans are trying to O.J. Simpsonize the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.…