Four Republicans running for seats on Alabama’s Supreme Court are making an argument legal scholars thought was settled in the 1800s: that state courts aren’t bound by U.S. Supreme Court precedents.
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, unanimously endorsed at her party’s convention for a second term, repeatedly bashed the Bush administration Wednesday, telling Democrats that the country needs “a fundamentally new direction.â€
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, unanimously endorsed at her party’s convention for a second term, repeatedly bashed the Bush administration Wednesday, telling Democrats that the country needs “a fundamentally new direction.â€
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Kansas Governor Selects Running Mate for Race
Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius announced Wednesday that the former state Republican party chairman, who switched his affiliation to Democrat only a day earlier, will be her next running mate.
Some red-state GOP moderates are jumping ship, after being forced out of the decision-making process in the state party environs by “social” conservatives. Embattled red-state Dems are willing to join forces with them.
All politics is local.
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Four Republicans running for seats on Alabama’s Supreme Court are making an argument legal scholars thought was settled in the 1800s: that state courts aren’t bound by U.S. Supreme Court precedents.
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In his first public comments on the incident, President Bush said Wednesday he was troubled by allegations that Marines had killed unarmed Iraqi civilians in Haditha, vowing punishment if laws were broken.
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Russia is on the cusp of a catastrophe. The UNAIDS report published yesterday says the global rate of new HIV infections peaked in the 1990s. In Russia, the rate of infection continues to accelerate faster than most other countries in the world.
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A coin dealer and GOP fundraiser at the center of an Ohio political scandal pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges he illegally funneled donations to President Bush’s re-election campaign.
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A coin dealer and GOP fundraiser at the center of an Ohio political scandal pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges he illegally funneled donations to President Bush’s re-election campaign.
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Two hundred passengers aboard a luxury cruise ship have been struck down with a vomiting virus, forcing their £1,000 seven-day cruise to end a day early.
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The US says it is ready to join direct multilateral talks with Iran on its nuclear programme if Tehran suspends disputed nuclear activities.
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President Bush watched the United 93 film with family members of fallen passengers Tuesday night.
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We are in the earliest, weirdly neurotic and theoretical phase of the ’08 race, when insiders in both political parties try to assess whether the putative, on-paper frontrunners really can do the job. By Howard Fineman.
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We are in the earliest, weirdly neurotic and theoretical phase of the ’08 race, when insiders in both political parties try to assess whether the putative, on-paper frontrunners really can do the job. By Howard Fineman.
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This week I am embarking on new challenges here at FNC
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Of the 22 Senate seats in the South, only 4 are now held by Democrats. Party leaders are keenly aware that until they make inroads in the South, any stable majority in the Senate will be hard to achieve. But they have hopes that Mr. Ford can begin to turn the tide.
The story goes on (and on) in the way of Southern political speech, but it conveys Mr. Ford’s core message: that Tennesseans of all political stripes are ready for change, tired of partisan and ideological divisions and ready for some pragmatism and action — on high energy costs, big deficits, inadequate veterans benefits, health care and education.
“Anyone who thinks the South in 2006 is the same as the South in 2004 is mistaken,” said Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York and chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
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Ronald Brownstein, Los Angeles Times:
Strategists differ over offering a detailed agenda versus relying on voters’ unhappiness with Republicans.
On one side are those who believe the Democrats must present a sharp alternative to Bush’s direction — as Republicans did with their “Contract with America” before sweeping into control of Congress in 1994.
On the other side are strategists who fear that offering too many specifics could allow Republicans to shift focus away from public discontent with how they have governed. Those sentiments appear especially strong among Senate Democrats.
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The Pentagon reported yesterday that the frequency of insurgent attacks against troops and civilians is at its highest level since American commanders began tracking such figures two years ago, an ominous sign that, despite three years of combat, the US-led coalition forces haven’t significantly weakened the Iraq insurgency.
In its quarterly update to Congress, the Pentagon reported that from Feb. 11 to May 12, as the new Iraqi unity government was being established, insurgents staged an average of more than 600 attacks per week nationwide. From August 2005 to early February, when Iraqis elected a parliament, insurgent attacks averaged about 550 per week; at its lowest point, before the United States handed over sovereignty in the spring of 2004, the attacks averaged about 400 per week.
The vast majority of the attacks — from crude bombing attempts and shootings to more sophisticated, military-style assaults and suicide attacks — were targeted at US-led coalition military forces, but the majority of deaths have been of civilians, who are far more vulnerable to insurgent tactics.
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Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., acknowledges that he misstated Senate ethics rules and has decided to not accept free tickets to boxing matches again.
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Democrats have talked for a couple of years about unveiling their own version of the “Contract With America†before Election Day, mimicking the strategy Republicans used in 1994 to capture the House.
But Republicans seem largely to have renounced the Contract. Many conservatives believe the party’s evolution of beliefs has led to the GOP’s political troubles today: low poll numbers and growing fear that Democrats may regain power.
No vote is perhaps more emblematic of how the Republican majority has changed than the one former Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) cast two weeks ago against a budget resolution offered by House conservatives that was as nearly identical as possible to the 1995 budget resolution.
Like the House GOP budget of ’95, the “Contract with America Renewed†budget proposed by conservatives this month sought to slash federal spending, place caps on Medicare payments, shift Medicaid payments to block grants and significantly restructure the Departments of Energy, Commerce and Education.
But unlike 11 years ago, when only one Republican voted against those proposals, 134 Republicans voted against them this time.
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Jim VandeHei, Washington Post:
A group of old Washington hands has launched a campaign to remake Internet politics, taking a forum that until now has been associated with ideologues and angry partisans and using it to start a movement culminating in a bipartisan presidential ticket in 2008.
The group is called Unity08, and no one would accuse its founders of thinking small. They include Democrats Hamilton Jordan and Gerald Rafshoon, who gained political fame for their role in electing Jimmy Carter 30 years ago, as well as Doug Bailey, a media adviser to former president and representative Gerald R. Ford (R-Mich.). They are being joined by former Maine governor Angus King, an independent.
Their goal is to offer an alternative to the two major party choices — a unity ticket that will emerge after secure, online balloting that they hope will include millions of Americans. In an announcement statement, Unity08 said its efforts are a reaction to a system that has “polarized and alienated the American people” through partisanship and interest-group politics.
Yet the blogosphere is often dominated by voices from the ideological extremes. Jordan, Rafshoon, Bailey and King are betting that the Internet has room for an activist middle, as long as the process is controlled by the people — especially the young. Their theory is that most Americans are fed up with both parties, a belief backed by recent polling data, and are eager to shake up the political process if they can find an outlet.
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When a coworker takes a spill, my office becomes an emergency room
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Does Congress think that it’s above the law?
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