The satirical, left-leaning blog Wonkette seems to have gone too far in a recent post titled, "Greatest Living American: A Children’s Treasury of Trig Crap On His Birthday."
7:36 PM 04/20/2011
A McClatchy-Marist poll released on Wednesday shows Mitt Romney in a statistical deadheat with President Barack Obama. Obama leads Romney, 46 percent to 45 percent.
10:49 AM 04/18/2011
On Friday, Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-Ill.) took the House floor and lambasted Apple's iPad, saying the tablet was "probably responsible for eliminating thousands of American jobs."
5:51 PM 04/13/2011
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor cast doubt on the legitimacy of a Donald Trump presidency on CNN's American Morning on Wednesday.
4:49 PM 04/11/2011
As Michele Bachmann ponders a presidential run, the Minnesota congresswoman told the Des Moines Register that she would serve only one-term as president if necessary.
12:11 PM 04/11/2011
Peter Orszag shed some new light on why he left his post as White House budget director and brushed off criticism over his decision take a multi-million dollar job at CitiGroup in an interview with New York magazine.
12:05 AM 03/31/2011
Donald Trump appeared on the Laura Ingraham Show Wednesday morning, discussing the controversy he has generated in recent days over his comments regarding President Barack Obama's birth certificate.
7:31 PM 03/23/2011
Democratic Oregon Rep. David Wu appears to be taking steps towards a political comeback only a month after revelations concerning his erratic behavior surfaced.
2:42 PM 02/28/2011
In a speech to a bipartisan group of governors at the White House this morning, Pres. Obama gave Mitt Romney a nod of approval for Romney's implementation of health care reform as governor of Massachusetts.
10:58 AM 02/28/2011
House Speaker John Boehner indicated that House Republicans are preparing to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network, set to air Monday.
7:16 PM 02/16/2011
Today is Kim Jong-Il's 69th or 70th birthday (depending on whether you trust North Korean or Soviet records more). From his birth under a double-rainbow to the vast economic and political progress the Korean nation has seen under his benevolent rule, the Dear Leader has lived anything but an ordinary life.
4:06 PM 02/14/2011
Former U.S. Department of Agriculture employee Shirley Sherrod has filed a lawsuit against conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart over a video Breitbart released on July 19 of last year. Sherrod's lawsuit claims that the clip, "damaged her reputation and prevented her from continuing her work," Salon reported.
5:19 PM 02/07/2011
In a Monday appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Rep. Heath Shuler said "there has been no communication whatsoever" between the Blue Dog Democrats in Congress and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
11:30 AM 02/07/2011
Likely Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee could beat Pres. Obama according to a series of polls conducted by Rasmussen.
5:16 PM 01/31/2011
Motorola has posted what some say is a 'teaser' ad for their highly anticipated Xoom tablet on Youtube. The starts with the tagline, '2011 looks a lot like 1984,' and closes with 'it's time to live a free life,' mocking Apple's famous 1984 Super Bowl ad. The full commercial is expected to premiere at next week's Super Bowl.
6:59 PM 01/26/2011
London-based City A.M. is reporting that Facebook, in conjunction with Taiwanese phone manufacturer HTC, will launch two Facebook-branded smartphones at the Mobile World Conference next month. The Facebook phones will reportedly offer a user interface based on Google's Android platform.
4:59 PM 01/26/2011
Chris Christie hosted Mitt Romney for dinner at the New Jersey governor's mansion on Monday night, originally reported by Newark's Star-Ledger Wednesday.
4:10 PM 01/24/2011
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie turned down an offer from the Republican leadership to deliver the official Republican response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, The Auditor/Star-Ledger is reporting.
1:47 PM 01/24/2011
Congressman Chris Murphy (D-CT) has launched his Senate campaign to replace Joe Lieberman (I-CT), and his new website describes his 2006 congressional race against then 24-year incumbent Nancy Johnson as positive:
7:02 PM 01/19/2011
House Speaker John Boehner is enjoying a significant rise in popularity, according to a new USA Today/Gallup poll. Boehner's favorability rating currently stands at 42 percent, up 8 percentage points from Gallup's November poll taken immediately after the 2010 midterm elections. Boehner's unfavorable rating is down to only 22 percent, a 9-point improvement from November's poll. The USA Today/Gallup numbers are in line with recent CNN/Opinion Research and ABC News/Washington Post polls.
