WASHINGTON -- The Great Social Security Debate, Proposition 1: Of course it's a Ponzi scheme.

Political pundits of a certain stripe have been lamenting the disappearance of Republican moderates for years. It's time now to lament the disappearance of moderate Democrats.

In his superb speech in Tucson, Ariz., Wednesday evening, Barack Obama did great service to the nation. He put to rest the libel that political incivility is responsible for the Tucson shootings. He did so with three words that he added to the written text: "It did not."

Attack ads are being run across the Sunshine State as the race to be Florida’s next attorney general has gone to the dogs -- literally.