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• Whores Galore

  April 28, 2:31 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the San Diego Union Tribune who's been rocking the Duke Cunningham story believes there may be as many as six other GOP co... | More »

• George Allen: Dixiepublican?

  April 28, 12:00 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  George Allen, tobacco spittin', cowboy boot-wearing senator from Virginia is among the GOP's top presidential hopefuls for 2008 — an authentic Reaganesque ... | More »

• Your Republican Party At Work

  April 27, 4:52 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Yielding to industry interests who deemed the proposal "impossible," House Republicans have blocked a vital port security measure. The Democratic proposal would have m... | More »

• Bootylicious Bribes

  April 27, 4:47 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  AKA: Putting the'ho' into Duke Cunningham's ho-spitality suite. From the Wall Street Journal: Mr. Wade told investigators that Mr. Cunningham periodica... | More »

• End It, Don't Mend It

  April 27, 4:46 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Abolish FEMA That's the conclusion of the Senate panel that investigated the government's response to Hurricane Katrina. The bipartisan report upbraids Bus... | More »

• Still Crazy After All These Years

  April 27, 4:43 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is upping the biblical ante, threatening the U.S. with two eyes for an eye, two teeth for a tooth: "'The Irania... | More »

• Out by the New Year?

  April 27, 12:00 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Love him or loathe him, Democratic Senator Russ "Balls Out" Feingold is at it again, introducing an amendment that would require redeployment of U.S. troops by Decembe... | More »

• The Number One Book in America

  April 26, 3:06 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  By Amazon sales rank. And it doesn't ship for another three weeks. Blogger Glenn Greenwald's instabook: How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values fr... | More »

• Woodcockery

  April 26, 2:56 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  The battle over the prescription-only status of Plan B —the so-called "Morning After Pill" —just got a whole lot weirder. According to an internal memo released as... | More »

• The "Death Tax" Con

  April 26, 2:54 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Public Citizen has uncovered a decade-long$30 million stealth campaign by eighteen of the richest families in America — including the clans behind Wal Mart, Campbell... | More »

• "Something of an Embarrassment"

  April 26, 12:00 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  FoxNews host and frequent Bush critic Tony Snow has just signed on to shill for the administration. | More »

• Rumsfeld Sued by Teens

  April 25, 3:45 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Are you among the 12 million high school students whose GPA, Social Security number and other personal information have been Hoovered up into a Pentagon recruitment da... | More »

• Thirty-Two Percent

  April 25, 3:44 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  CNN puts the president's approval rating at thirty-two percent. Worse: He's got a whopping sixty-percent disapproval. Good news for Democrats: In the poll&... | More »

• Petrol Politicking

  April 25, 3:42 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Check out the two parties' proposed solutions to sky-high gas prices. Cutting against type, the Democrats are calling for a sixty-day federal gas-tax holiday, bri... | More »