From today's WSJ: Senator Prodded Fed to Aid Ailing Bank From Home State.  And from last Tuesday: Wealthy Face Tax Increase. For this I read the paper?  At least America's Finest New Source offers breaking news: Supreme Court Allows Corporations To Run For Political Office.  My favorite: "This ...

In a Press Conference on February 3, 2010 Sen. John McCain announced his intention to introduce a new bill that would amend DSHEA (Dietary Supplement Health Reform Act 1994) requiring manufacturers of Dietary Supplements to register and disclose all ingredients. In the Press conference McCain was qu ...

If you’re thinking about how Citizens United will impact the rest of campaign finance law, take a look at the Republican National Committee’s recent supplemental memo in the party’s case against the Federal Election Commission. The document was filed Feb. 2, 2010.

HEY, WAIT A MINUTE: Surveillance Society: Obama Takes a Blue Pencil to the Bill of Rights. They told me if I voted for McCain we’d live an Orwellian nightmare of surveillance and repression — and they were right!

The Times implies something’s different about Sen. McCain in this article about his reelection race this year. Mr. McCain now sharply criticizes the bailout bill he voted for, pivoted from his earlier position that the Guantánamo Bay detention facility should be closed, offered only a muted re ...

Miami Beach's own Gerald Posner, who recently was the talk of the town with his salacious book Miami Babylon, has been suspended by The Daily Beast for lifting passages from prior articles, including the Herald:On Friday, it looked like writer Gerald Posner had his minor plagiarism scandal under con ...

President Obama continues to "reach out" to conservatives and moderates. The benefits of this approach, however, are dubious at best. Ben NelsonObama, for example, secured support for healthcare reform legislation from Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska by giving his state millions of dollars in Medicai ...

President Obama continues to "reach out" to conservatives and moderates. The benefits of this approach, however, are dubious at best. Ben NelsonObama, for example, secured support for healthcare reform legislation from Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska by giving his state millions of dollars in Medicai ...

The important practical question following the death today of Congressman John Murtha is what happens to the House seat he held on behalf of the people of Pennsylvania’s 12th District. The good news, so far as I can tell from early reports, is that Ed Rendell won’t get to appoint an int ...

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR MCCAIN, we’d see constitutional rights suspended in the face of flimsy claims of “emergency.” And they were right!