Between his shiny bald pate, the fervid glint in his eye and his douchy smirk, Jared Loughner’s mugshot—sort of a cross between Uncle Fester, Dr. Evil and an infected big toe—ranks among the creepiest ever released. Whatever the outcome of his trial, this indelible image will forever frame our view of the man and his Read More
Tom Delay said Hillary Clinton will be the next president.
One of Hillary’s closest advisers, Patti Doyle, gets profiled.
Bill Clinton’s former economic adviser was named the new head of the Congressional Budget Office.
Former White House National Security Adviser Richard Clarke says Democrats should, among other things, distribute anti-terrorism funding Read More
It’s been barely a week since her fellow House Democrats officially picked Nancy Pelosi as their candidate for Speaker, and it’ll be six more before she actually grabs the gavel.
Which makes it a largely academic exercise, for the moment, to wonder when and how a leadership coup against the 66-year-old San Franciscan might actually Read More
It’s been barely a week since her fellow House Democrats officially picked Nancy Pelosi as their candidate for Speaker, and it’ll be six more before she actually grabs the gavel.
Which makes it a largely academic exercise, for the moment, to wonder when and how a leadership coup against the 66-year-old San Franciscan might Read More
At first glance, you might think Tom DeLay is enjoying the last laugh in this story. But read all the way through the the end — the Democrat, former Representative Nick Lampson, is actually leading in Texas’s 22nd District. The GOP write-in candidate is merely on course to serve out the final month Read More
To the Editor:
I read with interest and some astonishment the error-filled and badly misleading review of my book Heist by Chris Lehmann [“The Gaud That Failed: A Tour of New Jack City,” Oct. 2]. To set the record straight on several facts, the following points are worth noting. Mr. Lehmann is wrong that Read More
When future historians of the current Gilded Age in our nation’s capital need to designate its zeitgeist-on-horseback, there’s little doubt that Jack Abramoff will be the man—or, as he was given to spell it in his voluminous collection of frat-boy-voiced e-mails: “da Man.”
Now so universally known in news reports as “disgraced superlobbyist” that it Read More
That righteous cause known as the Tom Delay Legal Expense Trust has filed its quarterly report and, as always with these things, it offered up a few tasty afternoon tidbits. The trust reported raising $314,435 and spending $312,465, with the largest chunk of change (some $125,000) going to the Texas outpost of Rudy Read More
John Kerry sounded like a candidate this morning when he spoke to the National Action Network annual convention breakfast via phone (he had been scheduled to speak in person, but like New York’s Senators, was stuck in DC due to the debate on the immigration reform).
On Katrina:
Hurricane Katrina showed us with Mr. Read More
