Obama, DNC give up Nemazee cash
They pledge to return or donate to charity campaign contributions from the indicted Dem moneyman.
The next Ted Kennedy? There isn’t one
Senate’s top Dems don’t have the same alchemical mixture of celebrity and legislative zeal as Kennedy.
Vt. Gov. won’t seek reelection
Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas announces at a press conference that he will not seek a fifth term in 2010.
Mourning a Kennedy Brother, Again
Mourners lined the streets from Hyannis Port, Mass., to Boston, where the procession for Edward M. Kennedy concluded its journey.
McCain: ‘Revolution’ on health care
Says he’s never seen anything like the ‘peaceful revolution taking place” in opposition of Dem plan.
In book sales, Obama’s the new Oprah
Ever since news of Obama’s reading picks went public, sales of the books have skyrocketed.
Seniors aren’t buying reform
Turns out you can fear a government takeover of health care even if the government already took over your health care.
How else to explain the reservations of seniors like 85-year-old Dee Jollie, one of the millions of people covered by Medicare, the government health insurance program for Americans 65 and older, yet still have deep concerns about President Barack Obama’s proposed health care overhaul?
"I think it’ll be government control," Jollie said this week while waiting for her congressman to hold a health care town hall meeting at her upscale retirement home.
CIA pushed the limits of sleep deprivation
A year after the Bush administration abandoned its harshest interrogation methods, CIA operatives used severe sleep deprivation tactics against a terror detainee in late 2007, keeping him awake for six straight days with permission from government lawyers.
Interrogators kept the unidentified detainee awake by chaining him to the walls and floor of a cell, according to government officials and memos issued with an internal CIA report. The Obama administration released the internal report this week.
Triumphs and tragedies of Ted Kennedy
It is not a stretch to say that if Sen. Edward M. Kennedy had not been stricken last year with the brain cancer that ultimately took his life, President Obama would have a health-care bill, one very likely on the verge of Senate passage. He was that good a legislator.
There were very few major pieces of legislation over the last 47 years that did not bear the Massachusetts Democrat’s touch, in large part because he was more than willing to work with his Republican colleagues.