Feinstein Defends Obama on Gay Marriage: 'What's Wrong With People Being Happy?'
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) defended President Barack Obama on Sunday from Republican charges that he has "flip-flopped" by speakin...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) defended President Barack Obama on Sunday from Republican charges that he has "flip-flopped" by speakin...
AP | KEVIN FREKING | Posted 12.17.2011
WASHINGTON — California lawmakers who employed a treasurer facing federal embezzlement charges reported some steep financial losses to their cam...
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.21.2011
Since the Republican Party now worships at the altar of "Saint Ronald of Reagan," it's always fun to point out the hard, cold fact that Reagan would simply not be acceptable to the Republican Party as it stands today.
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...
Elizabeth Hitchcock | Posted 11.17.2011
We ask a lot of questions about food. What's the fat content? How much sugar? Is there enough fiber? What about trans fats? Is this the brand of (...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
Put aside the crazy "Obama's a Muslim" idiocy -- assume John McCain had won the presidency instead. Do you really think the Senate would confirm a Muslim candidate right now, even a conservative right-wing one? I don't.
Sanjeev Bery | Posted 05.25.2011
In the growing national debate on US-Israel relations, California's two US senators have very different things to say.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
The Senate parliamentarian told Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Wednesday afternoon that her proposal to create a National Insurance Rate Authority run...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein and Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
Support for the public health insurance option is surging in the Senate. It began with three freshman Democrats in the House, Alan Grayson (Fla.), Che...
AP | KEVIN FREKING | Posted 05.25.2011
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Lucia Brawley | Posted 05.25.2011
Health care reform supporters don't grab the same level of publicity as the right, unless Howard Dean attends an event, because we agitate rationally. It's time for us to get a tad more theatrical.
Frank Dwyer | Posted 05.25.2011
"What, Exactly, Was Pelosi Supposed to Do?" the estimable Chris Weigant asked in a recent post. She could have defended her country. She could have ...
McClatchy | Posted 05.25.2011
Sen. Dianne Feinstein is the instant front-runner if she jumps into the Democratic primary field for governor....
Don Ringe | Posted 05.25.2011
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Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011
A senior U.S. lawmaker said Thursday that unmanned CIA Predator aircraft operating in Pakistan are flown from an air base in that country, a revelatio...
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.
AP | LAURIE KELLMAN and ERICA WERNER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Roland Burris failed to capture President-elect Barack Obama's old Senate seat Tuesday in a wild piece of political theater, but th...
Nora McAlvanah | Posted 05.25.2011
If Obama is going to bring "outsiders" (aka Clinton insiders) to the table, he needs to do it while showing an ability to operate within the current political parameters.
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
The history of profanity in American political discourse is an untold story out there just waiting for someone to research and write about -- although...
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.13.2012