Jan Tyler questions taxpayer funding of voter registration and turnout expenditures, which benefit Democratic candidates. She also questions deregulation of voting laws with same-day registration…
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., irritated House Republicans today with a partisan-laced speech in favor of a bill proposing a federal bailout of the mortgage industry, but some liberals in Pelosi'…
Jan Tyler of NeutralNation said all you need to "steal an election" is a paper-ballot system. She also criticized the since-abandoned attempt to direct financial bailout money to ACORN, a group…
Jan Tyler Of Election Neutrality Now wants a Government Accountability Office audit of the possibly hundreds of federal agencies that engage in partisan voter-registration and turnout schemes.
Michelle Malkin has a way with words: "It's Official. House Rejects Trillion-Dollar-Plus Crap Sandwich." I bet you won't see any headlines like that when the mainstream media report that the…
Fox News unearthed 2003 video of Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., saying that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac weren't facing a crisis and shouldn't be bailed out if they failed. Full video.
CNN's Amanpour quibbled over McCain's stumble over Iranian leader Ahmadinejad's name: "On sort of a cosmetic level, I was quite -- I sort of giggled a little bit when I saw John McCain stumble…
Barack Obama's campaign team, celebrated in political technology circles for its online innovations, took a high-tech jab at John McCain earlier this month with an ad that blasted the Republican…
Barack Obama spokesman Bill Burton learned the hard way today that you can't go on the air with Fox News' Megyn Kelly and talk trash about Fox News. Burton was invited on the show to respond to a…
Fox News' Megyn Kelly challenged Bill Burton of Barack Obama's campaign to explain his boss' support for banning handguns in response to new anti-Obama ads from the National Rifle Association that…
In the past decade, Mississippi Republican Thad Cochran has helped funnel $129 million in federal tax dollars to his hometown of Jackson. Take this tour, set to the Johnny Cash and June Carter…
This video mash-up served as my introduction to the "Macaca Mania" panel I organized at the 2008 Blog World and New Media Expo over the weekend. The panelists were Jane Hamsher, Jon Henke, Matthew…
At its annual conference last week, the Online News Association hosted a panel titled "Beyond Green." Environmental journalists argued that global warming is "settled science" and that reporters…
Until January, I worked for Atlantic Media, the parent company of both The Atlantic magazine and National Journal Group. It's a top-notch organization owned by David Bradley, one of the most…
I have no idea what it was on Eyeblast that got Robert of Sarasota, Fla., so worked up, but here's the e-mail he sent me a few days ago:
You are a most disgusting person. How you can look at…Tennessee Democrat Bob Clement served in Congress from 1988 to 2003. This is his empty, pork-barrel legacy in Nashville. ("Porkbusters On Patrol," Episode 1, by Cole Wakefield)
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama last week released an ad that attacks his Republican rival, John McCain, for not using a computer regularly and not knowing how to send e-mail. As it…
At the Online News Association conference in Washington, famed magazine editor Tina Brown talked about her move online. She is heading a forthcoming "mega-aggregation" site that will compete with…
Tina Brown delivered the keynote address on the first day of the Online News Association conference in Washington. She discussed her past work on magazines, her future work online, and the good…