If I’d had $1,000 to spare, the freedom to blow off a day of work and the cost of plane fare from Buffalo, N.Y., to Washington, D.C., I could have met presidential […]
VIP Clinton backers want a white VP, apparently
Our pal Bob Novak writes in his latest newsletter that “important supporters” of Sen. Hillary Clinton—without naming any of them—”are laying the groundwork for a campaign against Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for […]
Hate the press? You’re probably a Republican Fox News viewer
The headline in Editor & Publisher screams in tabloid style: “Poll: U.S. Public Sees Media as Biased, Inaccurate and Uncaring.” But that’s not the real news to be found in the latest […]
Hagel-Dodd bill to fix infrastructure a limited vision of the task
At least one candidate and one almost-was candidate for president in 2008 believe that the United States cannot afford — through federal funding — to pay for desperately needed repairs to 160,000 […]
Presidential candidates raise big cash fast — but from whom? And why?
A magician who seeks to retain his (or her) illusion for — and thus control over — the audience uses sleight of hand and misdirection. In the modern political era that began […]
Has anyone told Henry Waxman and John Conyers about this?
The poor chairs of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees have been fruitlessly serving subpoenas on various cretins in the Bush administration and the GOP, but all have come to naught. They’ve […]
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