Embezzlement Scandal Hits California Lawmakers' Accounts Hard
WASHINGTON — California lawmakers who employed a treasurer facing federal embezzlement charges reported some steep financial losses to their cam...
WASHINGTON — California lawmakers who employed a treasurer facing federal embezzlement charges reported some steep financial losses to their cam...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
So the good news this week was apparently that giant mutant space monsters are not, in fact, about to arrive and (assumably) enslave humankind and eat...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
Last week, I heard an interesting take on the political scene: that both parties seem to be trying mightily to lose the upcoming midterm elections. R...
Phil Trounstine | Posted 05.25.2011
When Sarah Palin wrote a cheat sheet for an interview on her hand, she was simply following in the, uh, footsteps of California senior Senator Dianne Feinstein.
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
What a week! With Congress back in session, with the excitement of newly-elected members being sworn in (or barred at the door, as the case may be), ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
This doesn't sound a whole lot like "change we can believe in." This sounds more like same-old-same-old cronyism and pay-to-play.
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
With slightly less than a month and a half to go before Barack Obama's inauguration, Washington, D.C. has officially reached the "freakout" point on the Richter scale of event planning.
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
Brian Williams, NBC's talking head extraordinaire, is probably a decent guy, a guy with whom you could sit down and have a beer. [More on the alcohol...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
Back in Volume 36 of this Friday Talking Points column, I pointed out what seemed to me to be an obvious observation -- that the media was going a lot...
AP | KEVIN FREKING | Posted 12.17.2011