By Joseph P. Williams |
As chairman of the Democratic National Committee in 2006, Howard Dean put together an impressive record: The Democrats retook power in both the Senate and the House, and set the stage for President Barack Obama’s historic 2008 run for the White House.
Yet the former Vermont governor and one-time ...
By Nikki Schwab |
Author and political consultant Roger Stone likes Richard Nixon so much that he had the late president’s visage tattooed to his back. But Stone wasn’t completely sure if Nixon would compliment Stone’s book, “Nixon’s Secrets: The Rise, Fall, and Untold Truth about the President, Watergate, and the ...
By Nikki Schwab |
In the past month, Meghan McCain - daughter of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. - has called the Secret Service “glorified mall cops,” reminded the world that her dad and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., “hate each other” and “talked crap,” as she puts it, on New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
So how often does her ...
By Nikki Schwab |
It was the sober presidents that compelled author Mark Will-Weber to pen his new book on presidents and their cocktails of choice, “Mint Juleps with Teddy Roosevelt: The Complete History of Presidential Drinking.”
“They were way more interesting than I thought they might be, because, even if they ...
By Steven Nelson |
In March 1996, Monica Lewinsky asked for a photo of President Bill Clinton for the White House office she shared with her coworkers.
“This is an official request to hang the picture of President Clinton signing the Telecomm bill in our office,102 EW-Legislative Affairs. Thank you,” she wrote in an ...
By Nikki Schwab |
More than two years have passed, but veteran Supreme Court reporters can easily recall the day CNN and Fox News Channel got it wrong when announcing the court’s Obamacare decision.
Garrett Epps, a professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law who pens a column for The Atlantic, said he ...
By Nikki Schwab |
It was fairly early in the writing process when author Joan Biskupic, the biographer of Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and Antonin Scalia, heard about Justice Sonia Sotomayor and “the salsa incident.”
As the story goes, it was June 2010 and the Supreme Court justices and ...
By Nikki Schwab |
So he’s not exactly Shakespeare, but becoming Richard Nixon is no easy feat says comedian Harry Shearer, the longtime voice actor on “The Simpsons,” whose newest project “Nixon’s the One” debuts on YouTube later this month. “His dialogue was much more difficult to memorize than anything a writer ...
By Steven Nelson |
Yes, this is actually happening.
Conservative legal activist Larry Klayman has submitted what he calls a “deportation petition” against President Barack Obama, asking authorities to begin the process of removing Obama from the country.
Klayman won the first and thus-far only federal court ruling ...
By Nikki Schwab |
He’s the leader of the free world. She’s a celebrity responsible for pushing “conscious uncoupling” into the vernacular and turning “goop” into something less slimy.
Together, President Barack Obama and actress Gwyneth Paltrow will be raising funds for the Democratic National ...
