Day: August 27, 2006

Cherilyn Anderson is a $45-a-month, small-town council member in southwestern Pennsylvania with no appetite for the partisanship of national politics. She won’t even set aside $1 in her tax returns to help pay for presidential campaigns.

In a lively but polite give-and-take, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld fielded questions Saturday from wives and other family members of Alaska-based soldiers whose combat tours in Iraq were abruptly extended just as they prepared to return home this month.

Ned Lamont headlined a recent fundraiser for the liberal Democracy for America. Days later, the Democratic Senate candidate was rubbing elbows with celebrities at a charity event sponsored by the liberal MoveOn.org, and he’s been a guest on Air America, the liberal talk radio network.

Democratic Party leaders want a former candidate for attorney general who denies the Holocaust occurred to stay out of their future primaries.

What was to have been a weekend of remembrance of Hurricane Katrina’s destruction became a weekend of worry as Ernesto strengthened to a hurricane in the Caribbean.

Their confidence shaken by Katrina, most Americans don’t believe the nation is ready for another major disaster, a new AP-Ipsos poll finds.

Jim Bensman thought his suggestion during a public hearing was harmless enough: Instead of building a channel so migratory fish could go around a dam on the Mississippi River, just get rid of the dam.