Tonight's Diary Rescue crew was Louisiana 1976, BentLiberal, dopper0189, Yashua, Avila, ItsJessMe, dadanation and srkp23. The rescued diaries First-time diarist...

Sen. Joseph Lieberman spoke at the Hagee "summit" yesterday, as Think Progress notes: Lieberman again drew a parallel between Hagee and biblical figures, this time...

VoteVets has a new ad featuring Brandon Woods, an Iraq War veteran from New York. In the ad, Brandon says, "What did we fight for in Iraq? I have some idea. I fought in...

Colorado Rasmussen. 7/21. MoE 4.5% (6/17 results) McCain (R) 47 (41) Obama (D) 50 (43) The Pollster.com composite is 47.6 Obama, 44.9 McCain. Michigan EPIC/MRA....

Rep. Mark Kirk, locked in the race of his life with Orange to Blue candidate Dan Seals, has already made several highly controversial statements about Democratic...

Barack Obama has won the argument on Iraq. The latest NBC/WSJ Poll, released tonight, shows that 60% of the voters think a timetable is a good idea, and 30% think it's a...

Via Politico: UPDATE: Just over an hour after finalizing plans to visit an oil rig tomorrow, the McCain campaign has cancelled the visit. "The meeting with Governor...

Emptywheel has Karl Rove's answers to questions from the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee -- you know, the committee before which Rove won't actually...

CO-Sen: After a series of polls showing Democrat Mark Udall with a 9-10 point lead over Republican Bob Schaffer, here's the first one in a while showing a closer race....

Seriously painful, arguably pathetic: WASHINGTON (CNN) — Barack Obama is not the only presidential candidate who will be front-and-center in Berlin this Thursday....

Good news! I just got word from my publisher that the release date for my forthcoming book, Taking on the System, has been moved up two weeks to August 20. James Wolcott...

Um, Katharine? I wrote that post a year ago. The 2007 should've given that way. The AP's Ron Fournier really is a problem. BooMan tallies the candidates and elected...

Memo to Republican candidates: There is actually an outer limit to fake outrage stories. Let's allow NJ-03 Republican candidate Chris Myers to demonstrate, shall we? ...

Following yesterday's monumental screw-up by John McCain, proving once again that he either doesn't understand or has forgotten key elements about this war, McCain's...

Six years ago today, Matthew Rycroft, private secretary to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, wrote a secret memorandum to the U.K.’s ambassador to the U.S., David...

After months of trying to shame Obama into visiting Iraq, Obama is now on perhaps the most successful campaign week the entire campaign, and his trip was the hot media...

In this video (in Spanish) O2B candidate Joe Garcia essentially accuses the right-wing Cuban-American Frank Calzon of the Center for Free Cuba of essentially pilfering...

Hurricane Dolly is undergoing a round of intensification prior to landfall later today near the resort town of South Padre Island, Texas, and could possibly even reach...

Katie Couric in a speech before the National Press Club, September 2007: Couric took Rather to task for his reporting. "There were things in there that were quite...

USAToday reports: Democrats in Congress hope to ignite a drive to reverse the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy Wednesday with the first hearing on the subject...