The recent election of Hassan Rowhani to be the next president if Iran may create a window of opportunity to seek diplomatic solutions to the always-controversial matters between the United States and Iran.

Rowhani campaigned as a pragmatist urging Iranian voters to choose a moderation and pragmatism that can lead to improvements in the economic lives of Iranians and move Iran in the direction of reconciliation at home and abroad.

It remains to be seen how far Rowhani will seek to move, and be able to move, in these directions. Make no mistake, the ultimate power in Iran is held by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, and power centers that follow his lead.

The Hill's A.B. Stoddard sits down with Pundits Blog contributors John Feehery and Peter Fenn to discuss the latest developments in Syria and the chances for passing immigration reform. 

As a recent story in The Hill suggested, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has some pretty big decisions to make.

No decision is more important for the Speaker and the Republican Party than whether to make immigration reform the law of the land or whether the GOP House destroys the prospects for immigration reform in the current Congress.

Sarah Palin, now and always, has the instinct for grass roots; and as consummate strivers in our times see the presidency merely as a stepping stone to $100 million trips abroad and a globalist future with 50 gold watches like Bill Clinton’s, Palin slips in with the crowd to get down with the people.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) has vetoed legislation that would have advanced the cause of pay equity for women in a move that will lift chances for Texas Democrats in the election for governor in 2014 and lift the chances of Hillary Clinton carrying Texas if she runs for president in 2016.

A friendship, now years in the making, between New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former President Bill Clinton counts as huge political news. As Christie takes the stage at the Clinton Global Initiative summit in Chicago, as intriguing as it is, one has to ask: Huh?

For anyone interested, I will be doing an interview over the weekend on Israel National News’s "Tamar Yonah Show," making the case that we now have two Americas, as per in the most recent elections, the abstraction of “red” and ”blue” America has concretized with the election of conservative governors in red states and liberal governors in blue states. 

And Israel will have to choose the better friend: The heartland or the Northeast. And Texas and the American heartland will be the better friend than New York.

In my latest column, I suggested Democratic donors begin a national effort to define key 2014 races and support — generously — massive new initiatives to register and turn out voters. 

Here I suggest Texas Democrats put the Lone Star State at the forefront of key races in 2014 by supporting and potentially drafting State Sen. Wendy Davis (D) to run for governor of Texas and end the arrogant, far-right and crony capitalist era of Texas GOP rule.

As I write these words, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott (R) are using a special session of the Legislature to pursue their pet projects of disenfranchising Texas Hispanic and blacks voters, and destroying abortion rights for women.

Enough is enough. The House Oversight Committee under Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has been discredited as a fair and neutral source of investigations. 

The abuses of the committee majority have descended into a derecho of undocumented innuendo, petty slanders, political cheap shots, false charges, partisan propaganda and abuses of power that bring discredit to the committee, the Congress and the Republican congressional leadership. It is time for reform.