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    December 22, 2010

    Barack Obama Kicks Don't Ask, Don't Tell to the Curb

    ​We've been following Don't Ask, Don't Tell since Senator Barack Obama was campaigning on its repeal. After all these years, watching the ceremony in which he kicked it to the curb, in person, was a special kind of early Christmas gift. The event was not held at the White House, but in an aud ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2010

    Cathie Black, That Cosmo Girl, Deserves a Chance. For Now.

    ​Granted, it's hard to see how the tools for putting out Cosmopolitan (this month's lead article: "First, Take Off His Pants") and Seventeen ("Amazing Hair") instantly translate into running the nation's largest and most troubled public school system. But for the moment anyways, it might be wo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2010

    'Don't Ask Don't Tell, DREAM Act in the Senate

    It's a big day in the U.S. Senate for two issues we watch, but it's kind of a win-win for conservatives on both of them, regardless of how the pending votes on 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' and the 'Dream Act' go down. The bigger of the day is a cloture vote on the military spending bill, which has a kin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2010

    Kagan-ation: Senate Confirms Elena Kagan to Supreme Court, NYC Repped Hard

    ​Following Justice So-Bro Sonia Sotomayor's appointment last summer, Elena Kagan has "thrown down" for Manhattan today.

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2010

    Scott Brown Votes With Dems, Leading to Cries of Betrayal

    ​The Democrats just won a cloture vote on the Obama jobs bill. Frank Lautenberg was out sick, and Ben Nelson voted against, so they needed some Republican backup, and got it from Republicans Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, Kit Bond, George Voinovich, and newcomer Scott Brown. This was just a v ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2009

    House, Senate Reach Agreement on Obama Stimulus Bill

    It's been cut from to $900 billion to $838 billion to $789 billion, but a version of Barack Obama's stimulus plan appears to have been agreed upon by negotiators from both houses of Congress. Senator Harry Reid told reporters "The differences between the House and Senate versions, we've resolved" ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2009

    Stimulus Passes Senate

    Obama's stimulus bill, sheared to a mere $838 billion, has passed in the Senate, by a vote of 61 to 36 with one abstention, with Republicans Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe, and Susan Collins joining all the Senate Democrats. They are the only Republicans in the entire Congress to vote for the bill, fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2008

    Rotten Tomatoes: Republicans Defeat Windfall Oil Profits Tax

    Obama's stimulus bill, sheared to a mere $838 billion, has passed in the Senate, by a vote of 61 to 36 with one abstention, with Republicans Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe, and Susan Collins joining all the Senate Democrats. They are the only Republicans in the entire Congress to vote for the bill, fo ... More >>

  • News

    March 11, 2008

    McCain Retreats on Terror

    Though acclaimed for opposing torture, the Republican presidential nominee votes to keep it

  • NYC Life

    March 21, 2006

    Hair Traffic

    Your extensions look hot—except maybe for the roots

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2006

    Morning Report 1/25/06
    Gag Orders

    Your extensions look hot—except maybe for the roots

  • News

    December 14, 2004

    'War Crimes' Murmurs

    At home, Bush, Warner, Lugar join the department of Rumsfeld defense

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2004

    Scrambled Yeggs

    At home, Bush, Warner, Lugar join the department of Rumsfeld defense

  • News

    November 19, 2002

    Riding Rudy's Right-Wing Wave

    GOP Hero Giuliani Stumps for Himself and America's Party

  • News

    June 5, 2001

    Nation

    GOP Hero Giuliani Stumps for Himself and America's Party

  • News

    April 10, 2001

    Nation

    GOP Hero Giuliani Stumps for Himself and America's Party

  • News

    April 3, 2001

    China Conflict: The Profit Motive

    GOP and Big Business Could Benefit From Clash

  • News

    March 13, 2001

    Lawmakers Call for New Pollution Limits

    Abandoned by Prez, Republicans on Hill Push Curbs

  • News

    March 6, 2001

    Limit Access, Stack the Court

    The Right-Wing Map to Outlawing Abortion

  • News

    January 30, 2001

    Reading Between the Lines

    How Ashcroft Could Make an End Run Around Roe v. Wade

  • News

    January 19, 1999

    Moderately Republican

    The Power of the Maine-stream

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