By Harold Meyerson Special to The Washington Post "As a group," the economist Robert Lekachman wrote in 1976, "economists are slightly more entertaining than bankers and a trifle duller than lawyers." Bankers, please note, were the dullest of all.

It's not often that a senior political figure announces an intention to behave irresponsibly and risk inflicting great harm on the U.S. economy. It's even rarer that the politician, having already behaved irresponsibly and inflicted harm on the U.S.

By Ramesh Ponnuru Bloomberg News Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood slapped down Reuters for reporting a few weeks ago that he wants "a federal law to ban talking on a cell phone or texting while driving any type of vehicle on any road in the country.

Politicians make plenty of boneheaded statements but Rep. Mary Kiffmeyer's criticism of an Iraq war veteran's courage probably takes the cake for this political season. In the legislative session post-mortems, the Big Lake Republican clashed with Rep.

By Cal Thomas Tribune Media Services LYNCHBURG, Va.

When I look back on it, I really didn't have much of a choice on whether I wanted to be a fisherman or not.

Alexandra Petri The Washington Post As a culture, we're unhealthily obsessed with our mothers. For the past several months, I have been deluged with e-mails wanting to know if I have made plans yet for Mother's Day.

As things stand, the spokesman does not have the supplies necessary to clean up the mess Biden made in his appearance Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press.

"In a second term," Mitt Romney darkly warned in a speech to the National Rifle Association last month, President Barack Obama "would be unrestrained by the demands of re-election.

WASHINGTON — The squabbling between political campaigns and the harrumphing of pundits were put in proper perspective at, of all places, the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner — the annual Prom on the Potomac where 2,000 or so media members and movie stars gather to honor th...