Republican Brian Bilbray won the special election in California Tuesday to replace convicted bribe-taker Randy "Duke" Cunningham in a race that should have been closer than it was and one that should tell Democrats they still have their work cut out for them if they hope to recapture control the House and Senate in November.
Ann Coulter, the right-wing’s poster child for the dangers of anorexia and visible proof that excessive use of hair bleach can fry your brain, dished out her dirt on the Today Show Tuesday, promoting a new book where she attacks those who lost spouses in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Voters will need a viable alternative when they walk into the polling booth for the mid-term elections. They will want more than just threats to impeach an incumbent President who will be gone in two years anyway.
Fatcat special interest groups pumped some $50 million into expensive, first-class travel for members of Congress, their families and their staffs over the last five-and-a-half years. That buys a lot of favors.
For a glimpse of how creative lobbyists can get when it comes to buying votes, consider the one who set up a retirement account for Tom DeLay’s wife and then pumped thousands of dollars into it.
OK. Tom Cruise and the nutcases at the Church of Scientology have gone too far. Now they’re sponsoring a NASCAR race team.
It looks like our best (and maybe only) chance for halting the damage-doers before they shatter what is left of America’s global image is to hope that the nation’s most patriotic conservative hard-liners will be so outraged that they will rush into battle. These conservatives are our best hope because the leaders of the damage-doers are their ideological kin — a trio that has apparently confused being hard-line with being hardheaded: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the men he works for, President Bush and Vice President Cheney.
A former Republican congressman narrowly beat his Democratic rival early Wednesday for the right to fill the House seat once held by jailed Randy “Duke” Cunningham, a race closely watched as a possible early barometer of next fall’s vote.
Military investigations into alleged U.S. atrocities in Iraq, including the killings of 24 civilians at Haditha, shine the spotlight anew on a question raised by the abuses of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib: How far up the chain of command should officials be held accountable, if the misconduct is confirmed?
The CIA helped Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann evade capture to protect high ranking West German officials from possible revelations about their own Nazi pasts, documents Tuesday reveal.