October 02, 2008

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Swift Boaters Start Your Engines
If Obama is hit with an attack ad fusillade, this secretive GOP operative will likely be behind the onslaught.

Stephanie Mencimer

October 02 -  By this time in the 2004 election, John Kerry was already drowning in attack ads hurled at him from the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. But this year, outside groups funded by ( Read more... )

House bailout efforts minute by minute

By Peter Viles, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
11:48 AM PDT, September 29, 2008 11:36 A.M.: The Los Angeles Times reports that the White House lobbied Republicans right up until the vote, in an ultimately unsuccessful effort to ( Read more... )

Sep 23, 7:02 PM EDT

Justice Department won't send prosecutors to polls

By LARA JAKES JORDAN
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department said Tuesday it will not station criminal prosecutors at the polls on Election Day after civil rights groups said minority voters who are expected to turn out in unprecedented numbers because of ( Read more... )

Tuesday, September 23, 2008


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Tying poor women's tubes could help taxpayers, legislator says

Wednesday, September 24, 2008
By Mark Waller

Worried that welfare costs are rising as the number of taxpayers declines, state Rep. John LaBruzzo, R-Metairie, said Tuesday he is studying a plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied.

"We're on a train headed to the ( Read more... )

By: Daniel W. Reilly and Patrick O'Connor
September 23, 2008 03:58 PM EST

There was a time when Dick Cheney could turn back a Republican revolt on Capitol Hill.

That time is gone.

House Republicans rose up en masse against their vice president on Tuesday morning to blast an administration proposal that would grant Treasury historic authority to start ( Read more... )

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Troopergate seems to be trapped in limbo

AT LEAST UNTIL AFTER NOV. 4: McCain campaign uses its power.

By MATT VOLZ and GENE JOHNSON
The Associated Press

Published: September 21st, 2008 02:07 AM
Last Modified: September 21st, 2008 02:22 AM

Until three weeks ago, only Alaskans and a few hard-core political junkies in the rest of the country cared about the ( Read more... )