Dan Quayle can’t spell ’em, but he can sell ’em. The former vice president appears in a commercial for Wavy Lay’s Potato Chips to be shown before halftime Sunday during the Super Bowl. In the ...

If you think that vice presidential debates – like the one on Oct. 7 between Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris – have no political impact, I have two words for you: Dan Quayle.

Could a White House spell-off be in the works between President Obama and former Vice President Dan Quayle? In a throwback to the latter's infamous misspelling of the word "potato," Obama accidentally ...

Ben Quayle, son of potato-plagued former Vice President Dan Quayle, says he will officially announce his candidacy tomorrow for the Congressional seat being vacated by Congressman John Shadegg. As a ...

Vice presidents don’t tend to be as remembered as well as those they served under. (There are exceptions. One of them is currently commander-in-chief.) So you might not recall Dan Quayle. He was veep ...

On this day 18 years ago, Dan Quayle famously misspelled potato, leading the 12-year-old child whom he “corrected” to later comment to David Letterman, “I know he’s not an idiot, but he needs to study ...

WASHINGTON Dan Quayle may have confronted the hopelessness of his presidential campaign when he marched in the Milford, N. H., Labor Day parade and was greeted by the word “POTATOE” plastered on a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Apropos my posting on Bill Kristol's commentary on my Spine on Sarah Palin: a reader wrote in to remind me that Bill has other credentials than intellectual. The most salient was that he was chief of ...

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