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The politics of every man for himself

Message to Democrats from the Republicans: We needed to find a mechanism to break you, to ruin you, to send forth our pitchfork-wielding screamers and we found it. We found just the way to do that – by ruining...

Pat Robertson blames Haiti earthquake on the people (video)

Following Haiti's 7.0 magnitude earthquake which has shattered its Capitol city, Port au Prince, and left, according to some reports, possibly 500,000 dead, televangelist Pat Robertson conducted this conversation with his co-host:PAT ROBERTSON: And, you...

Common worries of the uninsured at Christmas

Photo / APPHOENIX, AZ -- Tomorrow morning the United States Senate is expected to pass its version of health care reform. Still, the reformation of health care won’t be over. There are many days before the Senate and House...

Has John McCain lost his maverick mojo?

Photo / AP PHOENIX, AZ -- During the 2008 Presidential election, John McCain claimed insistently and sonorously that he was the “real” change agent that America needed. Others agreed and opined grandly about the change agenty nature of Senator...

Remember the hungry this week (video)

PHOENIX, AZ -- Early Sunday morning, December 20, approximately 15,000 people lined up to receive an early Christmas gift courtesy of Phoenix First Assembly Church. 3,000 bicycles, 12,000 wrapped toys and more than 1,000,000 cans...

Does Senator McCain get caught in a grand senior moment?

Yesterday on the Senate floor, junior Senator Al Franken followed directions to keep a strict timetable and, as a result, an amusing exchange occurred. (See exchange below.) John McCain immediately stood to defend his constant sidekick's honor...

Joe Lieberman, sock puppet

Joe Lieberman: Wants to endlessly filibuster, have his name added to the pledge of allegiance, have the Senate make him four inches taller ... oh, and he wants a pony. Sure, Joe. ...

All I want for Christmas

It seems a new and more obnoxious holiday song comes out each year. The standard bearer would be a song written In the 1940s titled, All I Want For Christmas is my Two Front Teeth. This year...

DNC - Calls out John McCain for blatant misdirection

Reuters/Larry DowningPHOENIX, AZ -- During a joint speech to Congress in September, President Obama made a passionate call for Congress to fix the nation's ailing health care system in the same spirit that created Social Security and Medicare during...

John McCain's confusion over Afghanistan

(U.S. Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., answers a question on Afghanistan at the Halifax International Security Forum in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Saturday Nov. 21, 2009. (AP Photo/The Canadian...

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