Three big scandals. Two Marine umbrellas. And a non-salute en route to Memorial Day. Plus more visual evidence from 12 days of scandal town.
You might have watched the first riveting week of the Boston bombing news coverage and thought people needed to calm down a little bit. But now, after a second week with few public answers and a brand-new federal prosecution, it turns out we've been too restrained, apparently.
Long portrayed as technologically aloof, the end of the comeback week gives us a portrait of Bush fully in thrall to consumer technology, leveraging the iPad not to check and respond to email but to express himself in art. Yes, he learned how to paint on an app.
Nobody knows exactly what investigators were looking for when they raided Steubenville High School in Ohio this week. But as the grand jury kicks off next week looking for charges, all signs point to something big. And guess which Big Red football coach decided to speak out again?
As president Obama spoke to Planned Parenthood on Friday, Fox News aired footage of the Kermit Gosnell trial. The coverage is a perfect representation of the split in the abortion debate: on one side, a triumphant march of progress for women, and on the other side, a fixation on late-term abortion nationally. Less covered is how some states are working to stop all abortions.
Operating with a laser-like focus and speed rarely seen in Washington these days, the House and Senate have now both passed a bill designed to fix the FAA's furlough problem, proving that Congess can fix problems quickly — as long as those problems directly impact Congresspeople.
What do President Obama, the Russian mob, Tobey Maguire, hedge funds, Olympic figure skaters, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Bill Clinton, A-Rod, France, and the "London Whale" have in common? They're all connected (more or less) to a complicated web of money, celebrity, politics, and illegal poker that may have cost one innocent millionaire an ambassadorship in France.
The odds are good that you didn't know about yesterday's House hearing on climate change or a new video from OFA. The urgency with which scientists look at the issue has still not been translated to Capitol Hill — or to the rest of America.
Politico gives the big "Behind the Curtain" splash today to a shameless embrace of shameless DC navel-gazing, and just in time for the White House Correspondents' Dinner, the annual peak of media loathing. So who's really the most incestuous here?
Tomorrow night, Washington media and the administration it covers sit down for what is informally called "nerd prom." This is as accurate a description as saying it's actually the press and the president who are the ones getting together.
On last night's Daily Show, he got so excited that George W. Bush is back in the news that he had to breathe into a paper bag. Then he moved on to the new presidential library, also known as "the Hard Rock Café of catastrophic policy decisions."
After stirring up trouble for months, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) died a quiet death in the Senate on Thursday.
In a marathon session before a weeklong recess, Senators finally found a way to agree on something Thursday night, when they passed a bill to end flight controller furloughs.
We've gotten so used to the idea that conservative media parrot official Republican Party talking points that even Luntz — king of the on-air focus group, prompter of Fox News teleprompters — is surprised when they fail to do so.
Rush Limbaugh has struggled mightily to come to grips with why Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev bombed the Boston marathon. Now he and others are reminding us that the Tsarnaevs were possibly aided by the thing liberals apparently love most of all — the bloated welfare state.
John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Bob Corker told reporters they believe the presence of the chemical weapons signals that the Assad regime has crossed the so-called "red line" the administration laid out previously that should dictate increased action by the U.S.
Here's the curious thing about the defenses of Bush during his legacy tour: rather than saying he did a good job as president, his allies are emphasizing that he had a really hard job.
In a moment that's become almost as big a presidential milestone as the inauguration itself, today George W. Bush celebrates the opening of his presidential library and museum, which is opening the floodgates for historical judgements on his eight years in office.
The National Enquirer, which is a tabloid but occasionally very reliable on marital matters, reported Wednesday that the fiancé of Boehner's daughter, Dominic Lakhan, was pulled over in Florida in 2006 and reportedly charged with a misdemeanor having to do with marijuana. But there's so much more than that — including wedding registries!
After his much-discussed arrest on Tuesday, the charges against Adam Savader were unsealed on Wednesday afternoon, and they are disturbing reflections of a young man with access to power, turned very pushy — and very sexually aggressive — with a virtual toolbox of creepiness at his disposal.
General Electric has decided it will no longer help America buy guns. Not that America needs much help.
Have enough Americans forgiven George W. Bush that they'll vote for his brother for president? Jeb Bush is doing several things that indicate he thinks so — speeches, a book, more speeches... oh, and he just got some potentially embarrassing news out of the way.
The Anthony Weiner Image Rehab-Apology Tour is picking up more steam, but when asked Wednesday if his sexting scandal was truly over and done with, Weiner didn't exactly shut the door on the idea.
The executives and backers of Fisker Automotive are being called before Congress today to answer for the failure of the electric car maker that is being called the "Solydra" of the green auto movement. What happened to all that Department of Energy money?
The First Dad told the Today show Wednesday that he can stop the First Daughters from getting tattoos... by getting his own, and taking it viral. But if history has taught us anything, kids are always going to find a way to screw over their folks. Like so, perhaps.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev became a citizen on September 11 of last year. With the country focused on how his family came to the country and proposals in the Senate and House revamping the immigration process, a little context on the history of immigration in the United States is in order.
Exactly one week after GOP leaders pulled funding from his congressional run, the South Carolina Republican appeared at a bizarre event in Charleston Wednesday morning, during which he "debated" a full-color cardboard poster of the House Minority Leader.
Jon Stewart is pretty great at skewering Donald Trump, and Donald Trump is pretty good at typing on an electronic device in order to post a short message on Twitter. Trump struggles in this asymmetrical warfare.
Voters in South Carolina may see a new spot from "Americans for a Conservative Direction," promoting Senator Lindsey Graham as an anti-Obamacare, anti-spending Republican. They probably won't realize the real force behind the spot: Mark Zuckerberg.
The senator said his position on using drones on Americans hasn't changed, clarifying an interview on Fox Business Network Tuesday that gave the impression he thought droning a robber might be OK.
After senators filibustered a gun background checks bill, President Obama gave an angry speech, promising that "we can still bring about meaningful changes that reduce gun violence so long as the American people don't give up on it." But according to a new Washington Post/ Pew Research Center poll, the American people are kind of over it.
Fun with vulgar acronyms and Congressional insider trading with "the Midas of profanity."
If you enjoyed the endless, empty rhetorical skirmishes that failed to have any affect on the 2012 presidential campaign, tune in to CNN in June. Two veterans of those useless fights, Stephanie Cutter and Newt Gingrich, may be back at it on Crossfire.
"He's not a normal kid," Limbaugh said on his radio show Tuesday. "There's nothing normal about this, and we don't want it to be normal." Well, yeah, that's the point.
The Tsarnaev brothers don't provide an easy answer for how to stop something like the Boston marathon bombing to ever happen again. That leaves the Tsnarnaevs' religion — and, apparently, all the liberals who think religious profiling is a bad idea.
Since his anti-drone filibuster, the Kentucky senator has been celebrated as the leader of the libertarian wing of the Republican Party. But there are limits to his belief in national security limits.
Politico's Dylan Byers made a mistake last October, poking the Nate Silver beast. And to this day, Silver takes every available opportunity to humiliate and mock Politico, particularly when it engages in data analysis.
Putting aside the argument of whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should even qualify as an enemy combatant, an analysis of previous terrorism prosecutions shows a remarkable track record for civilian courts, which have prosecuted both large and small crimes with great efficiency and success.
George W. Bush always claimed that he would be vindicated by history. Even he might be surprised at how quickly history worked its magic.
Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus's decision to retire instead of seeking a seventh term further complicates Democratic efforts to keep control of the Senate — unless the most popular Democrat in Montana decides to take a shot at the seat.
An overwhelming majority of Senators just voted to cut the debate short and get a final vote on a controversial bill that will impose sales tax on purchases made on the Internet.
"Is citizenship now a tactic in the war on terror?" asks conservative RedState.com columnist Dana Loesch. Should you be wondering, she goes on to point out that "It's a legitimate question." It is also a stupid question.
Mark Sanford placed a full-page ad to explain why he was busted for trespassing on his ex-wife property, following many other explanations in his campaign for a political comeback. But his endless confessions work for Oprah's couch, not for politics.
When the U.S. served Dzhokhar Tsarnaev with federal charges and announced that it would be trying him in civilian court — not as an enemy combatant — it was a moment when rationality beat emotion. What the brothers Tsarnaev allegedly did was really awful. But the Constitution still covers people who committed really awful crimes.
The Kentucky senator won the coveted position of "Republican liberals kind of like" with his drone-related filibuster earlier this year. Paul will surely disappoint them today with his demand that the Senate delay immigration reform until until we figure out how the Boston marathon bombers got into America, and how to prevent that from happening in the future.
The Arizona Republican senator told her, in a handwritten letter, that "strengthening background checks is something we agree on." A few days later, background checks was not something they could agree on, because he voted to filibuster the bill.
Conservative supporters of immigration reform are reportedly coordinating their talking points to marginalize Republicans who say the Boston bombings are reason to rethink proposals for more lax immigration laws.
A few days after The New York Times published a rather arresting column written by an inmate staging a hunger strike, 25 percent more prisoners have joined the protest.
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino revealed he thinks the Tsarnaev brothers acted alone when they terrorized Boston over the last five days during an appearance on ABC's This Week.
In the most crowdsourced terror investigation on American soil, we have come a long way this week in the neverending game of amateur investigation on social media. Here are the few — if ominous — things we've learned about ourselves, and about a man who was, it seems minutes ago, just a stranger.
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