Apparently, "The Rachel Maddow Show" has drawn fire from the office of Congressman Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.) over a segment aired last week on The Family, a...
Michael Sigman | Posted 08.13.2009 | Media
The most risible language contortions this side of Dick Cheney's tortured definitions of "torture" surround mavericky Sarah Palin, whose regular butchering of the English language rivals that of George W. Bush.
Michael Markarian | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
The flagrant disregard that dogfighters routinely show for society's norms was replaced by the snap of handcuffs and the slap of 30 or so arrest warrants.
Andy Borowitz | Posted 07.12.2009 | Comedy
"I misread my package's needs," the senator said. "It needs significantly more stimulus than I originally thought."
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics
For a long while, the inspiring tale of Mark Sanford's Latin American jaunt on or near "the sex line" had gripped America with its romantic melodrama....
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 08.10.2009 | Comedy
Rupert Russell | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics
My issue here is not that we do not prosecute our politicians adequately but the double standard that is placed on heterosexual and homosexual relationships.
Bob Burnett | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics
Instead of ideology the GOP offers dogmatic negativity. In place of rectitude they feature sleaze and hypocrisy. Rather than mature leadership they provide vicious incompetence.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics
A number of conservative Republicans appear to have become entangled Nevada Sen. John Ensign's affair and its aftermath. First, his mistress' husband ...
Andy Borowitz | Posted 07.10.2009 | Comedy
Unemployment surged over the past two weeks, but the Department of Labor was careful to point out that much of that increase was due to "forced layoffs of Republican mistresses."
John Marshall | Posted 08.09.2009 | Comedy
"If politicians are forced to have sex at home," said one expert, "it could cause a ripple effect on the mistress-producing nations of the world."
UPI | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., said Thursday he would invoke privilege if asked about advice he gave to Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., on handling an extramarit...
AP/Huffington Post | KATHLEEN HENNESSEY | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics
LAS VEGAS — The sex scandal engulfing Sen. John Ensign has deepened now that his former mistress's husband has revealed new details about the re...
Bill Scher | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics
There are two ideologically opposite criticisms of the stimulus package proposed by President Obama.
Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics
The recent string of marital affairs conducted by high-profile politicians, such as Senator John Ensign and Governor Mark Sanford, has left the public...
Las Vegas Sun | J. Patrick Coolican | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics
Doug Hampton spoke publicly for the first time today about the affair his wife had with Sen. John Ensign, saying the Nevada Republican continued his p...
Huffington Post | Posted 08.08.2009 | Home
The husband of John Ensign's mistress spoke publicly for the first time today, claiming that the Nevada Senator continued to pursue his wife, Cynthia ...
Samara O'Shea | Posted 08.07.2009 | Living
I invite everyone to relax and take a deep breath. I have news--I'm not sure if it's good or bad: adultery has always and will always exist.
Michelle Schweiger Schecter | Posted 08.07.2009 | Comedy
Last week's headline was quite salacious. "Gov. With Latina Quite Curvaceous" Guess he found someplace finer than his home state of South Carolina.
Larry Gellman | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics
We have never been more reliant on the generosity of others and less able to act like grown-ups and fend for ourselves than any time since the Revolution.
Christopher Brauchli | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
It is time to review the rules for confessions of infidelity by public figures.
Peter J. Ognibene | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics
DAISIs preach biblical fidelity to the masses, castigate those who veer from the straight-and-narrow but fail to practice in their own lives what they so sanctimoniously preach.
Jennifer Donahue | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics
Many of the Republicans who support Romney now liked him in 2008 but talked themselves out of it.
Gary Cohan | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
Republicans' private embraces are often in complete contradistinction with their own oft-trumpeted, Biblically-mandated "moral" guidelines for the rest of us.
Nathaniel Frank | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
Proponents of full equality for gay and lesbian couples should not be arguing that marriage is a purely private matter, unconnected to the public culture we are seeking to join.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.14.2009 | Media