Outrage Is Overdue
Let's call Tuesday's pitifully embarrassing Senate performance on the defense authorization bill exactly what it was: shameful. They blocked debate b...
Let's call Tuesday's pitifully embarrassing Senate performance on the defense authorization bill exactly what it was: shameful. They blocked debate b...
Lesleyann Coker | Posted 05.25.2011
Dear Senator McCain, Who are you? Do you even know any more? You recently told a reporter you've always done whatever's necessary to win, and j...
Michelle Kraus | Posted 05.25.2011
The Politics of Distraction have proven very effective for the GOP yet again. It was sheer brilliance to use the Palin wannabe, Arizona Governor Jan B...
Jonathan Cowan | Posted 05.25.2011
In the ongoing effort to de-maverick himself, yesterday's news that he is a lead sponsor of a bill to eliminate DC's gun laws must go down as the most spectacular and blatant reversal in Senator McCain's political career.
Joe Mirabella | Posted 05.25.2011
Five people were arrested at a sit-in staged by Human Rights International to encourage a conversation with Senator McCain about Don't Ask Don't Tell.
Andrew Winston | Posted 05.25.2011
I'm completely confused by the decision on offshore drilling, or at least by its timing. I can only come up with a few plausible reasons the President would support this, but none make real sense to me. Here are some lines of logic that some may support...
Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 05.25.2011
The Senate Armed Services Committee will soon hear what Defense Secretary Robert Gates and JCS Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen think about repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
Dawn Teo | Posted 05.25.2011
Rasmussen announced a new poll on Friday showing Senator John McCain may be in trouble at home where a polarized electorate has him facing constant criticism from both the left and the right.
Brian Ross | Posted 05.25.2011
The GOP machine politicos who are organizing them want us to see a country in outrage against our black, liberal, socialist president.
Out | Posted 05.25.2011
"Does it sound campy to say I love gay men?" asks Meghan McCain, sipping an iced tea at the nouveau-chic Hotel Palomar in Washington, D.C.'s Dupont Ci...
Jennifer Donahue | Posted 05.25.2011
Many of the Republicans who support Romney now liked him in 2008 but talked themselves out of it.
Leah McElrath Renna | Posted 05.25.2011
By grasping at Neda's death to satisfy his own partisan manipulations, McCain is objectifying this young woman as certainly as he objectified the entirety of Iran in his glib response about bombing the nation.
Dawn Teo | Posted 05.25.2011
PHOENIX - At a news conference today, Chris Simcox, founder of the Minutemen, formally announced his intention to challenge John McCain for his Arizon...
Dawn Teo | Posted 05.25.2011
Sheriff Joe, who is famous for his reality show, tent-based jails, and large contingent of immigration enforcement officers, says he never intended to appear before McCain and other senators at Monday's hearing.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Sen. John McCain is putting together a major economic plan that will be structured, in some ways, off of Newt Gingrich's famous Contract With America....
Lanny Davis | Posted 05.25.2011
We need pressures from the left in our party to remind us why we chose to be Democrats rather than Republicans.
Sam Greenfield | Posted 05.25.2011
Tax cuts without a stimulus package is like shooting someone to minister to a bullet wound: it only creates more bleeding with no end in sight.
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011
During Bush's first term, I remember seeing you at the White House a number of times. Since that time, your relationship with the president changed dramatically. He's leaving and you are trying to hang on to power by nearly any means necessary.
Auburn McCanta | Posted 05.25.2011
Disabled voters can make a difference, not only through their votes, but also by their campaigning activities.
Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011
The LA Auto Show is now officially the first big extravaganza on the national car calendar. It opens Friday, November 21st and runs through Sunday, November 30th at the LA Convention Center.
Luis Carlos Montalván and Gene Dewey | Posted 05.25.2011
To fill the vacuum of meaningful statecraft, the Department of Defense now finds itself both war-fighter and diplomat.
David Lucht | Posted 05.25.2011
There may be good reasons to vote the Republican ticket, but the hope that John McCain will bring change to Washington cannot be counted as one of them.
Tami Winfrey Harris | Posted 05.25.2011
There is nothing wrong with being Joe the Plumber. I just disagree that Joe is a symbol of the authentic American. And I say this as a Middle American.
Dottie Lamm and Marilyn Van Derbur Atler | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama co-sponsored legislation to overturn a Supreme Court decision making it more difficult for women to challenge pay discrimination. McCain opposed the same legislation, calling it "a great burden on business."
Lynne Glasner | Posted 05.25.2011
Barry Goldwater adamantly railed against large government and supported tax cuts (sound familiar?). He advocated making Social Security voluntary and selling off the TVA, neither of which garnered him many votes in 1964, a time of economic expansion.
Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 05.25.2011