The eight-legged god
The god of the gaps argument keeps reasserting itself (just like the climate change denial argument) in odd ways. With the discovery of the Big Bang, ...
The god of the gaps argument keeps reasserting itself (just like the climate change denial argument) in odd ways. With the discovery of the Big Bang, ...
Steve Clemons | Posted 01.22.2008 | Politics
No matter what the issues were yesterday, it is clear that the economy -- domestic and global -- is now the biggest political issue today and tomorrow. . .at least for a while.
Cristina Page | Posted 01.22.2008 | Politics
Those set on overturning Roe have their eyes on a larger prize: banning contraception. And they've got the support of at least one leading presidential contender.
AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 01.22.2008 | Politics
ORLANDO, Fla. — Battling to stay competitive after his weekend loss in South Carolina, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is taking new steps to...
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics
I apologize in advance for the disjointed nature of this week's column. There are a lot of odds and ends to cover, including tomorrow's primary picks...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics
For a guy with some patently unserious ideas about how the country should be run, Mike Huckabee sure has come a long way. His easy-going charm and sa...
David Sirota | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics
This is the third installment of what I have been calling Open Columnist - a call for reader input into the nationally syndicated newspaper column I w...
ABC's The Blotter | Justin Rood | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics
Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee has been roasted in the media for his apparent ignorance of front-page issues. But who would expect the ...
Rick Jacobs | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics
A statewide poll that shows one candidate way ahead may not accurately predict the delegate count, which is the only count that elects the nominee. And it also means this race may go on well past February 5th.
Raw Story | David Edwards and Muriel Kane | Posted 01.15.2008 | Politics
The United States Constitution never uses the word "God" or makes mention of any religion, drawing its sole authority from "We the People." However, R...
Marshall Grossman | Posted 01.12.2008 | Politics
Obama offers a calculatedly vague promise of optimism and change. Hillary continues to speak a language we have had a lot of experience with -- triangulation and protracted engagement.
David Sirota | Posted 01.11.2008 | Politics
Economic class is the taboo subject in American politics, to the point where the word "class" itself has been made into something of an epithet by pol...
Steve Clemons | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
My New America Foundation colleague and fellow blogger Mark Schmitt and I discuss the New Hampshire primary results. The following clip runs about ei...
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 01.07.2008 | Politics
Huckabee represents the half of us who are waiting for Jesus to "rapture" us and believe that the other half are second class citizens that God is just biding His time to gleefully destroy and torture for eternity. Thanks but no thanks Iowa.
Mark Kleiman | Posted 01.05.2008 | Politics
Huckabee is neither a boob nor a practitioner of the dark arts. He's a skilled orator, clearly the best the Repubicans have had to offer in a long time.
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics
What a sad day it is, in America, when a presidential candidate has a tiny group of middle-aged protesters arrested, and charged, with criminally trespassing on his property.
CNN | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
Mike Huckabee will win the Iowa Republican caucus, CNN projects, based on early results. With 15 percent of precincts reporting, Huckabee had the su...
Steve Clemons | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
It seems clear that there is no candidate yet that the Democratic Party really wants to coalesce around. The topsy-turvy nature of this close three-way race says something important.
Michael Seitzman | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
Right after the "Christian leader" told the press that he's "for the writers," he drove right past those same unemployed writers, in the middle of a massive labor dispute, in order to pursue his own political ambitions.
Beverly Davis | Posted 01.03.2008 | Home
DES MOINES -- In the final hours before the Iowa caucuses, the top two Republican candidates continued their verbal slugfest by trading accusations o...
David Sirota | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
No matter whether your personal preference wins or loses tonight in Iowa, We The People have already won, because class awareness and class-based politics is on the rise.
Ellis Weiner | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics
Take one step back from this carnival of make-believe and let's-pretend, and it becomes clear: the Republican Party has become an aggregation of people who prefer to live in a world of fantasy.
Dan Treul | Posted 01.02.2008 | Home
By Dan Treul Al Cannistraro, Jacqueline Cotrell, Christine Escobar, Kim Farris, Mike Germain, Kerri Glover, Matthew Moll, Gale Walden, Ellen Emerson ...
Washington Post | Sridhar Pappu | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics
"The negatives feel good," says Ed Rollins, the onetime wunderkind of the Reagan White House and now, at 64, the national campaign chairman for upstar...
NY Times | David Kirkpatrick | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics
About three weeks ago, Mike Huckabee received an unexpected e-mail message from the veteran political consultant and television commentator Ed Rollins...
John McCain was booed by his own supporters during a rally on Friday after he described Barack...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor...
E&P reports that Sarah Palin was greeted with a chorus of boos at the Philadelphia Flyers game where she...
Since our last...
The McCain campaign crossed the line today from negative...
Back in the days of Willie Horton and the Jesse Helms "hands"...
John Weaver, John McCain's former top strategist, says the Republican candidate...
Jon Stewart highlighted Fox News' coverage from the past few days in politics on his show Thursday night,...
UPDATED WITH TEXT: Brad Pitt's long-awaited photos of Angelina Jolie for W , shot...
NEW YORK — Wall Street capped one of its worst weeks ever with a wild...
We all put our pants on one leg at a time. But when you're running for public office,...
I don't know if Sarah would be into trying yoga. It can be a fairly...
PORTERVILLE, Calif. — National forests and parks _ long popular...
David Horton | Posted 01.23.2008 | Politics