Surprising almost no one, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will use the lame duck session of Congress to push the controversial DREAM Act, granting immigrants all the way up into their mid-thirties a pathway to U.S. citizenship.

The actual price tag of the War on Terror is much higher than commonly believed, while the estimated price tag of the health care reform bill is likely far too low based on historical precedent.  Republicans and Democrats don't like to admit as much, but history and hard data prove otherwise.

Though the mainstream political press has naturally focused on the stinging Democratic losses and sweeping Republican gains in last week's elections, 2010 has proven to be an historic year for third party and Independent politics in the United States. 

The beauty of baseball and politics is that “it ain’t over ‘til it’s over,” and it certainly isn’t over for two U.S. House races in California which, along with seven other races nationwide, are too close to call.