By DENNIS CONRAD
An Illinois congressional candidate who lost both her legs during combat in Iraq said Saturday that President Bush has no real strategy for securing the war-ravaged nation, just political talk designed to appeal to voters.
By DAVID CRARY
When it comes to statewide votes on gay marriage, the score so far is 20-0 in favor of keeping it a one-man, one-woman institution.
If there’s a chance to break the streak on Nov. 7, it might be in Wisconsin, where activists believe that support from unions, college students and church leaders — coupled with hoped-for conservative apathy — could enable them to finally overcome the string of losses.
By LAURIE KELLMAN
As Congress began its final week before the midterm elections, a veteran Senate chairman was asked the question ricocheting all over town:
Will Congress finish its work before lawmakers leave?
"No, just leave," Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said with a grin.
Republicans this weekend are scrambling to spin their way out of their failure to act when they learned a year ago that GOP Rep. Mark Foley of Florida was chasing young male Congressional pages through email.
The monumental failure in leadership and an obvious attempt to put holding on to a Republican seat by letting a pedophile skate has exposed the GOP’s hypocrisy of preaching ethics and family values while looking the other way when one of their own gets caught.
Saturday morning, October 1, 1994: With a cup of coffee in hand I sat down at my computer in the den of our condo in Arlington, Virginia, and logged on to the Internet to check my email.
Bob Woodward’s new book, State of Denial, not only shows an out-of-control White House unable to accept reality, it details the lies George W. Bush told the American people about Iraq war progess that wasn’t and an optimistic prognosis that existed only in the President’s mind.