WASHINGTON — Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., says he's ready for a tough re-election race in 2010, whether it's against MSNBC pundit Chris Matthews o...
Jane Hamsher | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics
Employee Free Choice is becoming the new gay -- the issue that wingnuttia is whipping itself into a frenzy over. If Matthews is indeed exploring a run, he needs to quickly bone up on this issue.
HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 08.23.2008 | Politics
Obama spokesman Bill Burton sends around warm statements about the Biden VP pick from three GOP Senators (who, it should be noted, buck the party's rh...
BuzzFlash.com | Amy Weiss | Posted 07.02.2008 | Green
While the Bush administration put a two-year moratorium on solar energy projects on public land last week, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and colleagues d...
Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
Putting Obama at the center of a team of rivals, all of them familiar, even venerable, pieces of political furniture would dampen the he's-not-one-of-us factor that is still his greatest danger.
Dave Hollander | Posted 05.19.2008 | Entertainment
Full-blown congressional hearings looking into football teams spying on one another is not exactly the best use of taxpayer money. But hear me loud and clear: Spygate is not a victimless crime.
New York Times | GREG BISHOP | Posted 05.14.2008 | Home
After meeting with a former New England Patriots employee who helped the team spy on opponents, Senator Arlen Specter on Wednesday described the team'...
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics
Forget Pennsylvania's primary, let's think ahead to the Keystone State's 2010 senate race -- it could include Chris Matthews.
Washington Post | Ben Pershing | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) today accused the Bush administration of being overly obstinate on a range of controversial issues, expressing particular f...
The Huffington Post | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
"Senator Arlen Specter today announced that he has been diagnosed with an early recurrence of Hodgkin's disease," the senator's office announced in a ...
Huffington Post | Posted 04.03.2008 | Politics
Arlen Specter's new book, "Never Give In: Battling Cancer in the Senate," chronicles the long-time Pennsylvania senator's struggle with an advanced ca...
AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Congress should cut short its spring break to work on proposals this week that would tighten regulation of investment banks and hel...
John Ridley | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics
Ending poverty and sheltering the homeless is hard. Grabbing headlines by going after star athletes... Easy peasy nice and cheesy.
Michael Smerconish | Posted 02.10.2008 | Politics
Perhaps conservatives, united in their hatred for Hillary, decided the only way to deny her the White House was to overlook McCain's shortcomings and unite behind him because of his appeal to independents.
John W. Whitehead | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
It's time for Congress to grow a backbone and send the president a clear message: either step in line with the rule of law and heed the voice of "we the people" or face impeachment hearings.
William Fisher | Posted 01.31.2008 | Politics
The Bush administration is arguably the most secretive in U.S. history, and the Kennedy-Specter legislation is no silver bullet. But it's a step in the right direction and deserves our support.
TVNewser | Chris Ariens | Posted 12.27.2007 | Media
In the NoonET hour of MSNBC's coverage of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto anchor Tamron Hall interviewed Sen. Arlen Specter, who is in Islamabad. ...
Politico | John Bresnahan | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics
A Senate Judiciary Committee vote on contempt resolutions against Karl Rove and White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten were postponed following an obj...
AP | Hope Yen | Posted 11.04.2007 | Politics
The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday he is bothered by Michael Mukasey's refusal to say whether waterboarding is torture b...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Roston | Posted 10.03.2007 | Politics
President Bush's pick to replace Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Michael Mukasey, has extensive ties to Rudy Giuliani -- from Judge Mukasey swearin...
Washington Post's The Sleuth Blog | Mary Ann Akers | Posted 09.21.2007 | Home
Guess who got a V.I.P. tour of the Capitol Thursday? Porn star - no, make that former porn star - and big Hillary Clinton fan Jenna Jameson. Jameson...
Frank Dwyer | Posted 09.05.2007 | Politics
You have always been a most reliable water-carrier in your party's unjust causes: carry your own water, for once, in your own just cause.
Tina Fey graces the cover of the January issue of Vanity Fair, and in an...
UPDATE 12/2: Marc Ambinder is reporting that Jeb Bush is considering a run for the Senate to...
President Bush let it all out today during an interview with ABC News' Charlie...
this just in: Governor Palin Neglects Alaska Duties for Partisan Stumping on...
The following is Part I of Sean Penn's piece, Mountain of Snakes (Read Part II here) The
Pardon the metaphor, but Obama is trying to put lipstick on the pig that is US...
Reuters has a Q&A with John Travolta to promote his animated film "Bolt." At the end, they ask him...
President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden met in Philadelphia...
After a 12-day hiatus, Sarah Palin stepped back into the spotlight on Monday to...
NEW YORK — Rush Limbaugh has seldom been a fan of...
Now that Americans have footed the bill for more than a...
CHICAGO — Almost one in five young American adults has a personality disorder that interferes...
Dear President-elect and Mrs. Obama: I know that the greening of the White House...
AP | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics