By DALE McFEATTERS
Supposedly the disputed 2000 Florida election, when the presidency dangled by a hanging chad from poorly punched paper ballots, taught us a lesson. And the lesson lawmakers drew from it, in the Help America Vote Act of 2002, was go high-tech, and scrap the old punch-card voting machines in favor of optical scanners, touch screens and computerized vote counts.
By DALE McFEATTERS
The White House and a spirited band of Senate Republicans have reached a compromise over detainee-treatment legislation that spackles over an embarrassing intraparty GOP split, but leaves much about the detainees’ fate to unresolved fine print.
By M.E. SPRENGELMEYER
Five towns in Colorado have become magnets for federal money. And besides their small size, they have one other thing in common: They’ve all hired the same, soft- spoken lobbyist, Kenneth Lee.
By M.E. SPRENGELMEYER
Focus on the Family Founder James Dobson made a reluctant return to the political stage this week, rallying family-values voters for key congressional races despite deep disappointment in what Republicans have delivered on his agenda.
By M.E. SPRENGELMEYER
When he’s not taking aim at liberal politicians or the forces of evil, Focus on the Family founder James Dobson has a different target: bears.
By LISA HOFFMAN
It’s curtains for an unassuming building in the middle of the Pentagon’s central courtyard that stars in an amusing, if apocryphal, bit of Cold War lore.
Former President Bill Clinton, angrily defending his efforts to capture Osama bin Laden, accused the Bush administration of doing far less to stop the al Qaeda leader before the September 11 attacks.
The U.S. government is unable to confirm a French newspaper report that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is believed to have died last month in Pakistan, a U.S. counterterrorism official said on Saturday.
A $1 billion reading program that is a key part of the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind education law was mismanaged and rife with conflicts of interest, according to an internal audit released on Friday.
Congressional Democrats were skeptical on Friday of a deal negotiated by three hold-out Republican senators to rein in President George W. Bush’s program to interrogate and try terrorism suspects.