“2016″ made more money at the box office than the combined receipts of the 15 films the Academy put on the short list this year. So why were those other ones selected?

Boehner must sprint to the national microphone and tell the American people that Obama is being unreasonable, reckless and uncompromising.

A GOP House elected to hold the line on taxes is offering new tax revenues and perhaps higher tax rates to fund the biggest Big Government in history. The GOP is close to reassuming its role as the tax collector for the welfare state.

Christie’s defection came at the worst possible moment for the GOP. After a lackluster summer, the Romney campaign had finally caught fire … Then came Sandy.

From my friend Jim Hughes: It’s 11:15 p.m. on the West Coast on Election Night, so these are very preliminary thoughts. It’s hard to analyze this election without breaking down all of the demographics, but here goes.

State GOP officials claim the House whip could have done more against Democrat rigged redistricting.

The election reaffirmed the big-government status quo, but there was one good sign from the national results, as voters in Washington and Colorado legalized the recreational use of marijuana.

A funny thing happened as I was looking at the political map of this year’s presidential election: It began to look like the map of the presidential election of 2004.

The system called Orca was supposed to help campaign volunteers locate voters who needed motivation to get them to the polls, but instead those valuable campaign resources sat idle.

In this year’s presidential race, President Barack Obama won 93 percent of the black vote, 71 percent of the Hispanic vote and 60 percent of those between the ages of 18 and 29, according to National Election Pool exit polls.