Memo to Tom Carper: Asking tough questions of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar about the federal response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico does not suddenly make you…
This is a liveblog to track the results from today's primary results in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Oregon, and the special elections in Hawaii and PA-12. My bets: Pennsylvania -…
Beau Biden was released from the hospital today, according to press reports. The Delaware Department of Justice released this statement: Attorney General Beau Biden returned home this afternoon from Jefferson…
I started a small Twitter war last night when I suggested that perhaps we should tax gasoline to pay for the cleanup of the oil volcano in the Gulf. BP…
Crazy stuff. (via TPM) The Secret Service investigated an Alabama high school teacher for using the example of shooting President Obama while teaching a geometry lesson. [...] A student in…
Typical. Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN), a champion of abstinence education and traditional family values, will resign effective Friday after an affair with a female staffer in his district office, he…
The greed of the developed world will be the tombstone of the planet. From AFP: The world faces the nightmare possibility of fishless oceans by 2050 unless fishing fleets are…
Connecticut Democratic Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal got caught in a big lie. He claims to have served in Vietnam, but he got 5 deferments. There was one problem: Mr. Blumenthal,…
Oilpocalypse updates: both good news and bad news. Giant plumes of oil have been observed under the water. However, the tube insertion appears to have been successful. Extra special bonus - Palin speaks!