Month: April 2009

. Update [2009-04-29 16:04:50 EST by Oui]: BREAKING NEWS – WHO chief to raise pandemic alert level to 5 U.S. has first death from Mexican swine flu WASHINGTON (AP) – A government official confirmed the first U.S....

The ultra-conservative senator Jim DeMint broke the news to Arlen Specter last Thursday. Last Thursday night on the Senate floor, Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., told Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, then still a Republican, that...

Why was the military trying to film a plane low-flying over NYC? I don’t buy the explanation – the only one given – that they were just trying to update file photos. Because according to this article, the...

We Democrats here in Pennsylvania know Arlen Specter’s record better than anyone and you’ll be hearing endless reiterations of his many sins over the next two years. I don’t need to do that now. Suffice to say...

Jonathan Chait: “When a politician switches parties, it’s customary for the party he’s abandoned to denounce him as an unprincipled hack, and the party he’s joined to praise him as a brave convert who’s genuinely seen the...