Rep. King: What’s a little slavery between friends?
Iowa Congressman Steve King cast a lonely vote last night against those darned anti-slavery liberals, casting the 1 versus 399 vote against acknowledging the use of slave labor to build the U.S....
View ArticleJohn Ensign: Is it still bribery if my mama pays?
The water just keeps getting hotter for the (soon to be former?) Senator from Nevada: Nevada Sen. John Ensign’s wealthy parents gave his mistress and her family $96,000, the conservative lawmaker...
View ArticleObama calls out Republicans on healthcare
With special thanks to Senator Jim DeMint for exposing the Republican playbook, which is about “breaking Obama” — not about helping the American people afford quality healthcare. Watch: Meanwhile, the...
View ArticleOfficer Crowley begs to differ
Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates during his July 16 arrest. “There are not many certainties in life, but it is for certain that Sgt. Crowley will not be apologizing,” Sgt. James Crowley of the...
View ArticleJohn McCain: Politics today, politics tomorrow, politics forevah!
Who does John McCain think he’s impressing by pledging to oppose Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court? The right? They already hate his guts. And with 2010 looming, and we’re...
View ArticleRemainders
Today’s burning question: what role, if any, did the interests of British Petroleum and other oil companies play in the release of the convicted Pan Am bomber back to his native Libya (where he arrived...
View ArticleWeekend wrap: Kennedy laid to rest
It was a heck of a weekend for television, topped by the moving, well orchestrated remembrance and funeral for Senator Ted Kennedy. Highlights of Saturday’s memorial: did John McCain snub Vicky Kennedy...
View ArticleArab, Muslim groups condemn Fort Hood attack
… and brace themselves for the backlash. Funny how there is no backlash against the entire faith when a Christian commits a horrendous crime…
View ArticleRemainders: Sarah Palin, Birther/not-birther, Tiger’s mama and Charlie’s...
Sarah Palin, is, and is not, a birther. Thank God for Facebook retractions. But what will her base think about her believing (sort of) that Barack Obama is American-born? Meanwhile, if you have any...
View ArticleThere goes Sunday
George Stephanopoulos will give up discussing important issues facing the nation and world on “This Week” — which at this stage is such an infinitely superior show to the weak “Meet the Press”...
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