If the Valerie Plame case has changed Washington – burning formerly anonymous sources, torching formerly high-flying careers – it’s becoming clearer the man who sparked the firestorm may not have emerged unsinged after all.
As he sat down with The Observer in his D.C. office suite last week, Robert Novak was still a bit Read More
The McCain campaign rode into the ’08 race on a wave of Bush comparisons: the same aura of inevitability, similarly hawkish foreign policies and even the same foot soldiers who staffed the President’s winning efforts. Now, after months of sagging poll numbers and lackluster fund-raising totals, the conservative Republican has an unlikely new campaign hero: Read More
A few weeks ago – in between Hillary Clinton’s official entry into the presidential race and the first Republican primary debate of the cycle – the fiery online conservative forum Free Republic marked a decade in operation as one of the premier online forums for right-wing political discussion.
It also experienced one of the Read More
Even as Rudy Giuliani emerges from his campaign’s first real rough patch, a number of conservative Catholic organizations are in the process of rolling out potentially broad-reaching “viral” initiatives with the common aim of denying him the Republican nomination.
A conservative Catholic P.A.C based in a key swing state is planning an anti-Giuliani “multimedia Read More
Five years ago, former Senator Fred Thompson seemed ready to say goodbye to White House dreams for good. He’d announced his re-election campaign in the wake of the attacks of Sept. 11, but seemed to lose steam after the death of his daughter a few months later, ultimately abandoning the run in the spring of Read More
Josh Rushing, the former Marine and Control Room star turned Al-Jazeera English reporter, spent nearly his entire adult life around combat gear. But a week ago, he seemed a bit uneasy with the pile of brand-new body armor piled in a corner of his downtown Washington office. He fingered the bright-blue canvas over the heavy Read More
If Hillary Clinton had peeked outside the committee hearing room before taking her seat on the dais today to welcome Al Gore back to the Senate, she would have seen an overflow crowd that stretched deep into the Dirksen building—including more than a dozen singing anti-war protestors dressed in choir robes, and a man toting Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Every year, anti-tax activist Grover Norquist hosts two can’t-miss events that bookend the Conservative Political Action Conference, the premier gathering of the nation’s right-leaning politicians, pundits and activists. One is a pre-conference poker party. The other is a beer-fueled late-night bash at his Capitol Hill townhouse.
Usually, that event doesn’t hit its stride until Read More
