Ted Stevens and the Gall of Sarah Palin
Palin can fabricate the status of her relationship with the dead all she wants. The record speaks far more honestly than Palin's hollow and vacuous sound bites for Fox News.
Palin can fabricate the status of her relationship with the dead all she wants. The record speaks far more honestly than Palin's hollow and vacuous sound bites for Fox News.
The Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Oh how the world turns. While his prosecutors are now under investigation for misconduct, the curmudgeonly ex-senator Ted Stevens is back on the Washi...
Lionel | Posted 05.25.2011
Whether it's Ted Stevens, Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter (OK, maybe not Coulter) the law is the law and we should celebrate when justice is served. Even if that means that the guilty walk.
James E. Coleman Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011
Many of the people who will praise Mr. Holder for dropping the charges against Mr. Stevens won't care that the same kind of misconduct routinely taints the trials of those who are not "connected."
AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — An angry federal judge held Justice Department attorneys in contempt Friday for failing to deliver documents to former Sen. Ted Ste...
Politico | Posted 05.25.2011
Attorneys for former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) have accused an FBI agent involved in the Stevens corruption investigation of having an inappropriate...
Anchorage Daily News | Posted 05.25.2011
With less than 48 hours left of the Bush presidency, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski's spokesman said Sunday that Murkowski had asked the White House to pard...
Katie Halper | Posted 05.25.2011
Stevens' awareness that he was engaged in a battle between bear and oil, good and bad, right and wrong renewed his sense of purpose, but also triggered his bipolar condition and delusions of mobility, political sway, and brute force.
David Latt | Posted 05.25.2011
Before he leaves office, will President Bush use his power to pardon to shield the members of his administration from legal action? If so, his pardons will be a last effort to avoid accountability.
HuffPost | Dan Duray | Posted 05.25.2011
The recently-convicted, recently-ousted Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska gave his farewell address to the Senate this morning. The 85-year-old was the ...
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 05.25.2011
Maybe Stevens can ask Palin for help. She was the director of a 527 called "Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc." Perhaps she can help him form a new one.
John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.25.2011
We, the taxpayers, will be the ones to pay the bill when it comes due.
Tony Hopfinger | Posted 05.25.2011
A friend of Stevens, Allen is under investigation for allegedly carrying on a sexual relationship with a teenage prostitute nine years ago.
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 05.25.2011
We all thought that first interview was going to be with ABC's Charles Gibson. Little did we know how wrong we were.
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 05.25.2011
Despite the revelation, first reported on Monday, that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin once directed a pro-Ted Stevens political committee, the notion still p...
Joel B. Schwartzberg | Posted 05.25.2011
Get an exclusive peek into Palin's feelings about Big Oil and ethics in an excerpt from NOW on PBS story that aired earlier this month.
AP | STEVE QUINN | Posted 05.25.2011
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Don Young, Alaska's lone congressman for the last 35 years, remained locked in a tight race with the lieutenant governor Wed...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 05.25.2011
It's hardly news that Republicans have outperformed Democrats in recent years when it comes to Alaska. But Anchorage Mayor and U.S. Senate hopeful Mar...
New York Times | NEIL A. LEWIS | Posted 05.25.2011
Senator Ted Stevens, the six-term Alaska Republican, was spurned in his effort Wednesday to have his corruption trial, scheduled for next month, moved...
AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — FBI agents spent years investigating Sen. Ted Stevens. They read his e-mails, searched his home and taped his phone conversations w...
AP | RACHEL D'ORO | Posted 05.25.2011
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Sen. Ted Stevens returned home Monday to a cheering crowd, declaring his innocence and insisting his re-election campaign wa...
236.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Alaska's hypersenior U.S. senator, Republican Ted Stevens, has pled not guilty on charges he lied about receiving $250,000 in gifts from oil contracto...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011
In the wake of Sen. Ted Stevens' indictment, his GOP colleagues quickly began distancing themselves from the stink by dumping campaign contributions Stevens had doled out through his PAC. Among those playing "Take Back the Money" were Mitch McConnell, Elizabeth Dole, and John McCain. We've seen this game before, when politicians scrambled to rid themselves of donations from Enron and Jack Abramoff. Indeed, Dole has now won the Tainted Money Triple Crown, having divested herself of money from all three. The beauty of this D.C. dance is that it is always accompanied by insistent claims that political contributions have absolutely no impact. But no one ever explains why, if the money doesn't buy influence, there is such a rush to return it. Perhaps the answer can be found on Stevens' Bridge to Nowhere.
AP | MATT APUZZO and LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Under indictment and watching some Republican colleagues tiptoe away from him, Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens is counting on speed to keep...
AP | MATT APUZZO and LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens pleaded not guilty to corruption charges Thursday and received an unusually speedy trial date, which he hop...
Geoffrey Dunn | Posted 05.25.2011