Is Botox part of her stimulus package? Sarah Palin is promoting much more than her new best seller book, Going Rogue. This week, ladies — take a look at her refreshed new face. At age 45, Sarah could easily be mistaken for a very young 35. Cou...  1 Comment

Sarah Palin believes that political correctness is for fools and racial profiling is the way to stop violence. Thing is, if (as she tells Sean Hannity) “liberals’ heads explode” over her comments, it’ll be due to exposure to utter stupidity...  1 Comment

The latest absentee ballot totals from the NY-23 special election show Democratic Rep. Bill Owens leading his Conservative Party opponent Doug Hoffman -- with a greater margin than there are absentee ballots left to be counted. The Watertown Daily ...  Comment

Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue" book tour just went rogue on some unhappy fans. The former governor arrived at a Borders bookstore in Noblesville, Indiana Thursday night to sign books. The evening started off well. "We had a gre...  2 Comments

In an unprecedented defeat for the Federal Reserve, an amendment to audit the multi-trillion dollar institution was approved by the House Finance Committee with an overwhelming and bipartisan 43-26 vote on Thursday afternoon despite harried last-minu...  Comment

Aside from taking a moment to wish the Obamas a "happy and joyous holiday season," FOX News's Major Garrett cut right to the chase in his interview with President Obama in Beijing. Garrett made it clear from the get-go that the int...  Comment

Slight uptick in President Obama's job approval rating in the last two weeks, according to CNN/Opinion Research: Approve 55 (+1 vs. last poll Oct 30-Nov 1) Disapprove 42 (-3) Overall Obama's job approval rating is...  Comment

Bill O'Reilly asks Lou Dobbs if President Barack Obama is the devil. Dobbs treats it like a serious question. There is something about cable television that makes grown men become batshit insane...  1 Comment

Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai was inaugurated at a ceremony in Kabul today for his second term in office. Anchor Jeb Sharp speaks with Kabul resident Sultana (she asked that we not use her last name). Sultana says that Afghans see little hope for change...  Comment

Despite a lot of complaining by conservatives, the American people don't actually have any problem with President Obama bowing to the Emperor of Japan -- and that's according to the new Fox News poll. Respondents were asked: "When the p...  Comment

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has arrived in Afghanistan to attend Thursday's inauguration of President Hamid Karzai and meet with top U.S. commander Gen. Stanley McChystal. Karzai is under stiff pressure from...  Comment

Hunger now scars the lives of over 1 billion people -- a new record. Today, Monday the 16th, world leaders will gather at a UN food summit in Rome to debate what to do about it. As a former Goodwill Ambassador for the World Food Program, I sense how the meeting may go. There will be more media attention on the politicians than on the issues, an abundance of speeches, and a series of oddly fancy luncheons -- with more speeches. At a similar luncheon, I remember wond...  Comment

I'm totally against the Afghanistan war, as C&Lers know, and it was lost as soon as Bush and Cheney decided to attack Iraq. Any chance to stabilize that region was lost immediately thereafter. The world had rallied around Afghanistan in such...  Comment

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said any new U.S. forces President Barack Obama sends to Afghanistan could move into the country swiftly, despite logistical hassles that force almost all major deliveries of troops and supplies to go...  Comment

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina, a decision that could make the federal government vulnerable to...  2 Comments

There is still no decision yet on whether more American troops should be sent to Afghanistan and one of the causes for indecision is said to be the question of how to pay for the surge amid economic recession. US military's operational request n...  Comment

Conservative Democrats are making it very clear that they'll switch their vote and kill the bill down the line if the public option doesn't get stripped out of it. "Let me be perfectly...  2 Comments

Just over 24 hours ago Rev. Jesse Jackson lambasted Artur Davis with "you can't vote against health care and call yourself a black man," but he sees things a bit differently tonight. Here is Rev. Jesse Jackson's most recent statement...  Comment

The extreme abortion language included in the House bill has been left out of the Senate bill, in favor of a provision that more closely tracks with the Capps amendment that was originally included in the House bill, only to be replaced by the Stupak Coathanger amendment, as well as used for the original Senate Finance committee language. The current Senate bill has added a provision stating that the HHS Secretary must ensure that no federal funds are used for abortion...  Comment

Ah, it's pathetically ignorant, perpetually re-elected NC U.S. Congresscritter Virginia Foxx opening her trap again to contribute batsh*ttery to the public discourse and historical record with the ludicrous claim on the House floor that the Repub...  Comment

Officials in a small Michigan town featured in a new video about Guantanamo by Liz Cheney’s national security group want her to know that they’re not falling for her “fearmongering” — and tell us they want Gitmo detainee...  Comment

He's in serious danger of losing in the GOP primary next year against a man who's not even running. Senator John McCain’s future in the U.S. Senate may be a little less assured than previously thought...  Comment

Mark Sanford, the South Carolina governor who coined the best euphemism of the year when told aides he was "hiking the Appalachian trail" as an excuse for doinking an Argentinian woman who was not his wife, faces questioning...  1 Comment

A new Rutgers-Eagleton poll shows a majority of New Jersey voters approve of marriage equality: Nj "Supporters of gay marriage may find New Jersey more hospitable than many other states, according to a Rutgers-Eagleton Poll released today. By a 46 percent to 42 percent margin, adults in New Jerseyans favor legalizing same-sex nuptials, with 12 percent unsure...  Comment