Alberto Gonzales's legal career at the White House and the Justice Department was a stain even for the Bush administration. Gonzales left office with a 28 percent approval rating, with over 40 percent of the country saying he should resign.
President-elect Obama has made it clear that one of his first priorities when he takes office will be an economic stimulus package that could reach around $800 billion.
Hurricane Katrina not only pulverized the Gulf Coast in 2005, it knocked the bully pulpit out from under President George W. Bush, according to two former advisers who spoke candidly about the political impact of the government's poor handling of the natural disaster.
The leader of a far-right political party in Greece compared Israel's actions in Gaza to Hitler.
Today on MSNBC, anchor Tamron Hall hosted a segment discussing RNC chair candidate Chip Saltsman's Christmas greeting this year that contained a CD with the song "Barack the Magic Negro" on it.
Only 29 percent of Americans approve of the job Dick Cheney is doing as Vice President. In an interview with his hometown Wyoming newspaper, The Caspar Star-Tribune, Cheney expressed his bewilderment over his low approval numbers:
With continent-spanning business successes, multiple marriages and generational strife roiling beneath him, Rupert Murdoch would seem to be a perfect running story for a tabloid, but the man who owns the means of production rarely becomes grist for his own mill.
Times have changed.
Yesterday, a water main break in Maryland trapped a dozen commuters in their cars and sent rescuers scrambling to pull motorists from frigid floodwaters.
Earlier this month, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) released a report citing "more than 650 international scientists" who back up his claims that manmade global warming is a hoax. This list was a revision of his original compilation of 400 names earlier in the year.
Today, the New York Times had an article about how right-wing talk radio is gearing up to aggressively go after President-elect Obama over the next four years.
Congressional Republicans' resounding vote against the auto bailout this month captured a dynamic that could drive much of the party's response to Barack Obama and compound the threat to the GOP in the Northeast, the Midwest, and other regions where it is already retreating.
The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) has been a major source of the Bush administration's extreme neoconservative thought. AEI is the home, or former home, of Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Dick Cheney, John Bolton, and Doug Feith.
Last night on Fox News, Greta Van Susteren asked Mike Huckabee about President-elect Obama's decision to choose pastor Rick Warren — who has a long record of anti-gay views — to give the invocation at his inauguration.
President-elect Barack Obama's various appointments and political choices are taking on an almost provocative character.
For more than two years, cozying up to Rick Warren has been one of Barack Obama's favorite ways of showing evangelical Christians that he might not be so scary, after all -- and for just as long, palling around with Obama every once in a while has been Warren's way of trying to s …
America's Voice, a group that favors comprehensive and humanitarian immigration reform, released a new Web video this week slamming infamous Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
TVNewser reports that former Fox News host John Gibson will be replacing Bill O'Reilly on Fox News radio.
Last night on "The O'Reilly Factor," host Bill O'Reilly slammed Muntader al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush, and said that if he had been there, he "would have physically taken the guy down." Guest Juan Williams agreed, but he widened …
On his radio show today, conservative talker Glenn Beck complained that the media is not talking about the "real issues." To make his point, Beck wondered allowed about why the media isn't "leading every news cast" with the apparent arson incident at Gov.
It came to John D. Podesta during a jog through the scenic Rock Creek Park over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. His boss was going to be impeached and there was no way around it. It took Rahm Emanuel a little longer to reach that conclusion. And it fell to Gregory B.
Senate Republicans, including Sens. Arlen Specter (R-PA), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and Jon Kyl (R-AZ), are trying delay confirmation hearings for Attorney General nominee Eric Holder, raising questions about Holder's role in the 2001 pardon of Marc Rich.
During an interview with Time magazine's Kate Pickert regarding his move to Fox News Channel, conservative talker Glenn Beck claimed that while he was a CNN, his show was "the most well-researched show on CNN": ***
Last night, Bill O'Reilly continued his crusade against an atheist plaque on display next to a nativity scene inside Washington's state capitol building.
O'REILLY: You can't possibly think that Fox News is a far right operation? I mean, because it's not. TURNER: I do. O'REILLY: Oh, come on. I mean, maybe coming from a Jane Fonda point of view it is, but come on. TURNER: Well, I was married to Jane Fonda.