U.S Stories
Free beer and resume help
Embedded video from CNN VideoFor now, you will have to head to St. Louis unless someone else rolls out another brew and resume help center.
Tuesday Morning Open Thread
Well, Joe is back in DC (I think), but I'm giving him one more morning off. Just working on some of the Christmas photos, ...
Another $500 a person handout?
I thought we tried this last year, and it didn't work.The incoming administration is considering tax cuts of $1,000 for couples and $500 for individuals ...
GOP officials divided over whether "negro" is a slur
And that is why the Republican party is in so much trouble. Their anger and their intolerance has been so internalized that they're actually ...
For those still looking for New Year's Eve events, here's the list
It looks like there are plenty of options instead of the ball drop in Times Square to choose from these days. Who wouldn't want ...
Blago reportedly picks Obama's Senate replacement -- with updates
ANOTHER UPDATE @ 7:00 PM: Via email, the Obama Transition Team sent out a statement from the President-elect. He's not on board with ...
MoveOn has had it with Politico
A few of you had written to me about an article in Politico claiming that MoveOn had abandoned gay rights and basically sided with Obama ...
50 Herbert Hoovers? Try 300 million.
Krugman wrote a column the other day about how state governments are cutting back spending, at at a time that we need them to keep ...
Governor Patterson interviewed openly gay Assemblyman Danny O'Donnell about New York's Senate seat
Okay, now this would be an historic first. Danny O'Donnell is an openly gay Assemblyman in New York. He led the effort to ...
Vicki Iseman is suing the NY Times for alleging she had an affair with McCain. NY Times says "We fully stand behind the article."
Well, this is an interesting development. Vicki Iseman is suing the Times. The Times is standing by its story about Iseman and ...
Seniors give Daschle health reform ideas (AP)
AP - Note to President-elect Barack Obama: Health reform doesn't have to be all about expanding health insurance. It can be about the little things ...
Governor should not name senate replacement: Obama (AFP)
AFP - President-elect Barack Obama said Tuesday that the corruption-tainted governor of Illinois should not have appointed a replacement to fill the president-elect's vacant senate ...
Pro-Palestinian protesters at Obama's Hawaii house (Reuters)
Reuters - A small group of placard-waving pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered near U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's vacation retreat in Hawaii on Tuesday to protest against the ...
Judge reviewing GTMO detainees OKs detention of 2 (AP)
AP - Two Guantanamo Bay detainees, including a Yemeni man accused of being a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden, were correctly labeled as enemy combatants ...
Obama: Blagojevich appointee shouldn't be seated (AP)
AP - President-elect Barack Obama says he supports the decision by Senate Democrats to deny his vacated Senate seat to an appointee of embattled Illinois ...
ON DEADLINE: Appointive seats not best game around (AP)
AP - Appointed senators have gone on to become election-winning party leaders, powerful committee chairmen, a vice president and presidential nominee. But others who got ...
Court: Religious objection won't stop DNA sampling (AP)
AP - A federal appeals court on Tuesday refused to stop the government from taking DNA from a prisoner who claims the process would violate ...
Douglas Elmendorf to replace Orszag at CBO (AP)
AP - Former Clinton administration economist Douglas Elmendorf will be named to replace Peter Orszag as director of the Congressional Budget Office, House Speaker Nancy ...
Obama: Senate cannot accept Blagojevich appointment (Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama said on Tuesday he agreed that Senate Democrats "cannot accept" any move by Illinois' scandal-tarred governor to name a ...
Kennedy's 'you knows' become political fodder (AP)
AP - If Caroline Kennedy had, you know, only known. Tracking the would-be New York senator's verbal tics has become a political parlor game in ...
Log in
- Iraq Parliament Clashes Over Fate of Man Who Threw Shoes at Bush - New York Times
- Cheney says Biden hasn't asked for any VP advice (AP)
- Majority of Americans think Madoff scandal is common
- Will voters elect a Bush again? (Politico)
- LtGov: Blagojevich out by Lincoln's 200th birthday - The Associated Press
Featured author