Anthony Weiner is reportedly holding a fundraiser called "Women for Weiner" next week. And the politicians who really need "Women for…" groups are the ones who have women problems. And Anthony Weiner is one of those guys.
A Mayors Against Illegal Guns event in Concord, New Hampshire, yesterday involved reading the names of victims of gun violence since Newtown. Included among those names: Tamerlan Tsarnaev. But the group suggests it's not their fault — Tsarnaev's name came from a list posted at Slate.com, as Bloomberg's group told The Atlantic Wire on Wednesday afternoon.
One of the FBI's methods of fighting terrorism in America is to have undercover agents or informants recruit Muslims for fake terror groups, give them ideas for fake terror plots, and in some cases, arm them with fake terrorist weapons. For those troubled by these methods, perhaps it will be some comfort to know the FBI also recruits white guys as terrorists.
The Republican senator has announced her support for same-sex marriage. This used to be a more common thing, back when there were more moderate and Democratic senators who hadn't yet made the announcement. Or who hadn't yet "evolved," as politicians say these days. Thanks to Murkowski, we now have a better sense for how long that evolution takes. We counted.
Sean Hannity, still, incredibly, is officially confused about where President Obama grew up. In a new interview with Playboy, Hannity was asked whether he regrets saying Obama grew up in Kenya. Hannity responded, "But he did grow up in Kenya, and he told The New York Times that he went to a school there and one of the most beautiful things on the planet is Islamic prayer at sunset."
FBI director Robert Mueller said the government has used surveillance drones in the U.S. — though "in a very, very minimal way, very seldom" — at a Senate hearing on Wednesday. Sen. Dianne Feinstein said drones were the "biggest threat to privacy" in America today, suggesting that she is anti-NSA paranoia but pro-drone paranoia.
For those waiting for the president to do something on climate change, Obama has offered two signs that action is imminent. The public sign came during his speech today in Berlin. The more subtle signal came in conversation with groups about to sue him for his inaction.
Barack Obama returned to Berlin today, almost five years to the day from when he delivered his famous "Victory Column" speech that cemented his reputation as an international rockstar. Unfortunately, his reception this time was a lot different.
Josh Duggar, the oldest of the 19 Duggar children, is leaving the family's home state of Arkansas and moving to D.C. for a job with the Family Research Council.
This is where we are with the IRS scandal: bogged in a subset of a subset of a subset of a war. Today's volley was the releasing of an interview transcript. World War IRS.
Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto is not a rape apologist. He's not a woman hater. He only attacks sexual assault victims to help other women.
Every few months, for reasons that only they can really know, Politico founders submit themselves to questioning from publications that not so secretly hate them.
Vice President Joe Biden gave a speech this afternoon celebrating the administration's push for new restrictions on gun ownership. Which is a little like an athlete stopping mid-race to say that he already considered himself a winner. While in sixth place.
If you were wondering how the NSA and FBI felt about the very friendly hearing the House Intelligence Committee invited them to today, a hot mic has your answer. "Tell your boss," NSA Director Keith Alexander told the FBI deputy director, "I owe him another friggin' beer."
A suspicious package brought operations at CBS's Washington office to a standstill just before lunchtime on Tuesday. The building was evacuated for about an hour while police investigated the scene.
In a preview of the many pronouncements to come on the floor of Congress as the House debates a legislative ban on all abortions after 20 weeks, allow us to introduce you to Rep. Michael Burgess, who believes that abortion should be banned earlier than the Supreme Court says it should because, in part, he knows fetuses feel pain. He knows this because he says he's seen male fetuses begin masturbating in the womb around 15 weeks into a pregnancy.
The House Intelligence Committee invited Gen. Keith Alexander, Director of the NSA, for a discussion of his agency's surveillance tactics. Four disrupted plots were detailed. But on the whole, the one-sided hearing belied the witnesses' frequent claims that the NSA receives robust oversight from Congress.
Talk of borders and visas aside, the real problem for conservatives is voting rights for immigrants who could be legalized by reform.
The conservative push in the House to pass a restrictive abortion bill ticked up one more level on the futility meter today as the President officially indicated his intention to veto the measure, should it reach his desk.
President Obama "goes further than he has before" in explaining "the balance between security and freedom," the Charlie Rose Show tweeted to hype its 45-minute interview that airs Monday night. And while a leaked transcript shows Obama does go into further detail than he has before, we've already heard most of these defenses. This is what they sound like this week.
A disgusting plot involving the smuggling of Pakistani immigrants, stealing their wages, and forcing them to pay for housing was busted by federal agents in New York and Virginia. This is going to look very bad for your local Slurpee shop, and the great bodega takeover of New York City.
The Texas Republican Senator earned $65,383 in retirement benefits last year and amended a disclosure to show he's been collecting one pension since 2006.
A nation continues to wait for final word on the Supreme Court's Big Four cases, but the justices' closest call arrived first on Monday, in a ruling that just made your right to remain silent a lot more complicated — just ask Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
The Gang of Eight that's working on passing an immigration reform law seems more like a gang of seven people who are managing one guy: Marco Rubio. The Florida senator and budding Republican star appears to be both critical to passing the bill and always within inches of blowing it up.
Sarah Palin, former governor of Alaska and failed vice presidential hopeful, visited Fox & Friends this morning, and the show pulled out all the stops for its old star: booking Sen. Ted Cruz, waking up afternoon anchor Megyn Kelly to guest-host, and showcasing some tricked-out RVs. We watched so you didn't have to.
Rep. Darrell Issa is committed to getting you to refocus your anger on the IRS scandal, no matter how long it takes.
A new CNN poll shows President Obama's approval ratings taking a nose dive in recent weeks, a development that is probably not unrelated to the deluge of second-term scandals that have taken over the media, including the NSA leaks.
Sen. Marco Rubio said the Senate's bipartisan immigration bill is ready to go as written, for the most part, except for a few minor changes that are needed during an interview on ABC's This Week.
An exchange between Rep. Jerrold Nadler and FBI director Robert Mueller is coming under some scrutiny after a reporter claimed it concretely proves that NSA analysts can listen to domestic phone calls without a warrant.
Governor of Texas Rick Perry has some bad news for Texas women. On Friday afternoon, the one-time presidential hopeful notified several sponsors of a state bill addressing gender-based wage discrimination that he had vetoed it.
In order to figure out if we are striking the right balance between freedom and security, it helps to know what's on both sides of the scale. But when it comes to the National Security Agency's domestic and Internet surveillance program, even after all of Edward Snowden's leaks, we don't actually know very much at all.
The former Florida governor and potential 2016 presidential candidate said at a conference on Friday that immigration reform would help America: "Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population." But this is why he's really off-key.
Syria is being compared to a lot of things — Kosovo, Rwanda, Libya, Iraq — and the Obama administration is divided over which lessons should apply. Here's what the president will and will not do next.
The Obamas' vacation could cost taxpayers in the vicinity of $100 million for hundreds of Secret Service agents, 14 bulletproof limos, and much, much more, but there is more important outrage: We're not even going to get another awesome picture of a president on safari!
Have faith, Supreme Court rabble-rousers: the highest bench in the United States remains open to protests, speeches, demonstrations, and vigils. You may have to follow a few ground rules, though.
Based on multiple media reports, all citing unnamed officials, the Obama administration has decided to start supplying some Syrian rebel groups with arms and ammunition.
When the world learned that the would-be lieutenant governor had written that yoga could leave you vulnerable to Satan, it seemed the world finally had a brave leader who would take a stand against hideous yoga fashion and smelly hot studios and Lululemon princesses. But no. An unusual 45-minute press conference revealed all.
What FBI head Robert Mueller and the NSA really need this week is simple. They need a terror attack they can point to and say: "Our surveillance tools, the ones everyone is complaining about, stopped that." They're still looking.
Tea Partiers have long had a hunch that President Obama was a tyrant smugly unrestrained by the Constitution, but now they have proof!
Last year, for apparently the first time, more non-Hispanic white people died than were born. Other trends confirmed by the Census compilation of population estimates for the year 2012 were expected: the U.S. population is shifting to the Southwest, getting older, with more people moving to cities.
Weeks after The New York Times Magazine helped Anthony Weiner launch his comeback campaign, its ink-and-paper sibling has fired a big shot into the side of it. And it's not the same bombshell everyone is waiting for.
NSA director General Keith Alexander spent some time explaining the necessity of the NSA's surveillance programs on Wednesday. And while the director's answers at to the assembled lawmakers were low on specifics, it seemed to boil down to two implied words: trust me. Here's what else we know about him.
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