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"Newshounds" have been watching their Fox News Channel quarry dither over Senator Barack Obama's associations with pastor Jeremiah Wright, and noted Fox's own Sean Hannity getting himself tripped up ...

Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused Sarah Palin of lying about visiting troops in Iraq on CBS' Face the Nation on Sunday, arguing the point with ...

There's more trouble in Republican "family values" paradise! Ted Haggard, is the gift that just keeps giving. Imagine, a married man of the cloth, who espoused Republican values to his parishioners, ...

PRINCETON, NJ -- Barack Obama has a 48% to 41% lead in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking presidential election trial heat, based on June 7-9 polling. http://www.gallup.com/poll/107791/Gallup-...

A Republican-generated effort to get out the vote for Georgia's December 2 Senate runoff election "has hit a snag as thousands of requests for absentee ballots have been denied because the ...

Youth is fleeting! Washington is hard on politicians. Beauty or beast? Yearbook pictures always come back to haunt us. Here are some cases in point! Answers at the bottom of the diary.

A new Greenberg Quinlan Rosner poll commissioned by NARAL finds that once "balanced information" about Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain's respective positions on abortion are introduced,

The titular "head" of the GOP has spoken and it's incredibly ugly. Radio's foremost purveyor of hate, Rush Limbaugh has reacted to the scary mugshot of Jared Lee Loughner, the suspected gunman in ...

Sen. Ted Kennedy made his first public appearance of the new Congress this morning to chair a hearing to consider President-elect Obama's pick of Tom Daschle to head HHR. It was a solemn promise ...

Anderson Cooper effectively excoriated the spurious and outrageous claims behind the "birther" movement in an interview with Texas State Representative Leo Berman on his show last Monday.

Did Joe Scarborough walk out of David Gregory's show "Race to the White House" Thursday night on MSNBC? It seems that way by the video below. Joe was a panelist on the show along with Air America's ...

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has also been noticeably absent on the diplomatic scene, having failed to interrupt her holidays to fly to Tbilisi in support of the ...

Finally...OJ Simpson gets his due... guilty of all counts....Simpson could face more than 60 years of imprisonment. The jury of nine women and three men deliberated more than 13 hours tonight. ...

UPDATE: MSNBC just announced that at least 36 SD will declare tomorrow... Sen. Barack Obama "worked furiously Monday to win over enough superdelegates to clinch the nomination with the final ...

I am really disgusted by this ad from John McCain, Youtube link below the fold. Not only is the allegation false, but the racial undertones are clear. I guess this is a great example of what McCain ...

So, General Petraeus agrees with Barack Obama ...and not John McCain on the question of whether we should meet with hostile enemies? How many times has McCain invoked Patraeus' name, in saint-like ...

A new CNN poll sheds light on how beloved George "W"orthess Bush is in this country less than a month until he flees from office. According to the new poll, 75% say they are glad Bush is leaving ...

Republican crazies have been let out of the cage again: An Oklahoma lawmaker's anti-gay comments are attracting national attention. Rep Sally Kern of Oklahoma said that gays were worse than ...

The House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed Karl Rove to testify tomorrow, but on July 1, Rove announced he would defy the subpoena. Could you or I get away with defying a Congressional subpoena? Of ...

Dan Quayle, your record as stupidest person ever to run for VP has been laid to rest! Why would the nation's foremost energy expert need to be shielded in the VP debate? I thought she was plucky, ...

Taking into account that many people believe that newspaper endorsements are useless, I would firmly disagree. People like all of us who peruse DKOS and other political blogs and websites are pretty ...

Wasn't Ann Coulter at the forefront of GOP whining of false allegations where she/they claimed that ACORN was involved with voter fraud...and now it's being reported that Ann Coulter herself is a ...

Chicago Tribune columnist Steve Chapman explores McCain's "own radical friend." "Obama has been justly criticized for his ties to former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers, who in 1995 hosted ...

Dick Perle: true war criminal and war profiteer. Shameless to the end. Perle, one of the most influential proponents of 2003 invasion of Iraq, is in talks to join a consortium of investors with ...

Don't be fooled by The FOX Nutwork's new polls released today....they're actually Rightwinger Scott Rasmussen's new venture which allows anybody to conduct a poll ...

A must listen...Ted Stevens shows what is "Wrong with Washington. In this audio of an interview on Alaska Public Radio with Steve Heimel on Tuesday, Ted Steven was confronted by callers with ...

Preserved on Memorex! "I'd never seen anything like that ad. Putting pictures of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden next to the picture of a man who left three limbs on the battlefield -- it'

Hustler publisher Larry Flynt has an ingenious plan for stopping the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and it doesn't have anything to do with bombs, relief wells or devices patented by Kevin ...

"The Verdict" just announced that General Clark will be interviewed by Dan Abrams tonight on MSNBC.

NBC executives "are closing in on a decision about who will take over Meet the Press, its venerable Sunday morning political talk show, with the announcement coming possibly on Dec. 7," the Los ...

This is really shocking. A document obtained by The Daily Beast shows that BP, in a previous fatal disaster, increased worker risk to save money. Corporatists like BP have choosen profits over ...

MSNBC said this afternoon that it was canceling “Tucker,” the low-rated, early evening program led by Tucker Carlson, and replacing it with a new, politically oriented program featuring ...

Justice Antonin Scalia: Al Gore to blame for 2000 US election mess By Toby Harnden The 2000 presidential election debacle was the fault of Al Gore, who should have followed ...

All aboard the Obama Express to Washington, DC. The January 17 trip includes a stop in Philadelphia, a stop in Wilmington to pick up Biden and his family, and a stop in Baltimore before arriving in ...

Stevens argued that he should be allowed to change the venue to his home State, so he could continue to campaign for an office that he is under indictment for selling out? No Go! Alaska..the state ...

We can now mark Harry Reid's Nevada Senate seat..."safe" Dem in 2010! It's time to start cultivating some Democratic talent to retire the awful Bush/Republican sycophant, John Ensign whose term ...

A new Quinnipiac poll shows Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) with a 45% approval rating, his lowest score ever. Quinnipiac pollster Douglas Schwartz states: "Sen. Lieberman's approval rating has dropped ...

Republican taunts about tire gauges have met their own challenge as Democrats are "pumping up" a stunt of their own. Today, the Democratic National Committee is launching an “Exxon/McCain &...

Palin arrived home tonight, on a private Jet!

One comment Michele Bachmann has never fully explained came during a debate she had while running for Congress for the first time in November 2005. Responding to a question on the rioting in France ...

CARLSBAD, California (Reuters) - News Corp Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch on Wednesday predicted a Democratic landslide in the U.S. presidential election against a gloomy economic ...

President-elect Obama "will allow gays to serve openly in the military by overturning the controversial 'don't ask, don't tell" policy that marred President Clinton's first days in office, Fox News ...

Ed Schultz needs to get a grip!

Remember in 2001, when Grandpa McCain was seriously considering bolting the republican party of Bushbots to become a democrat or independent?

Spread John McCain's official talking points around the Web, and you could win valuable prizes! John McCain's campaign is urging supporters to spam blogs and forums with official talking points, ...

As Sen. John McCain heads to Michigan today, the Obama campaign tries to highlight recent news that McCain owns three foreign cars, a Lexus, Volkswagen and Honda .... despite statements that he's ...

David Frum, is a Canadian-born "neoCon" journalist who is active in the both United States and Canadian political arenas. Frum was also a former economic speechwriter for President George "W"...

The Bush administration is “now in a position where they want to talk about a possible compromise” on stalled electronic spying legislation, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) ...

It looks as though John McCain is really just a front man for a group of Republican power brokers who already pull his strings and will continue to do so if elected, hoping that they can secure the ...

You have to wonder how the McCain campaign can put out a positive spin on this! Has anybody bothered to let McCain know that being President of the United States is a 24/7 job?