The NY Times buried the story this afternoon. Maybe they were busy getting wiretapped on the phone.
After close to a year of in-house cock fighting, the House passed a bill today that will listen into your cavernous soul. Or something similar.
The outdated and now unfabulously updated FISA bill, passing 293 to 129, with near-unanimous support [...]

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The George Allen versus Jim Webb Senate race in Virginia is as close and dirty as they come. The up-side is that Republican Allen’s bungles— his “macaca” references, his quoting Webb’s war novels out of context, his hired goons beating up bloggers— have generated some hilarious Web material, like this old crackup at ridiculopathy.com and [...]

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The 2008 presidential race is already heating up. On Tuesday Senator John McCain responded to his potential rival Senator Hillary Clinton’s suggestion that George W. Bush bears some responsibility for North Korea’s nuclear status by turning the blame back on her husband.
According to the Washington Post, in a campaign speech in Michigan McCain said:
“I would [...]

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Yup, that’s now-resigned Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) chatting it up in an “over friendly,” not explicit manner, with an underage boy. By now you’ve heard about it, and the fact this his Christian conservative GOP buddies knew about it yet refused to take action, though House Speaker Dennis Hastert claims it was taken care of [...]

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This week an open source journalism project was lanched to investigate congressional earmarks–line-items inserted into a bill to direct funds to a specific project or recipient without any public hearing or review. There are currently 1,867 secret spending earmarks worth more than $500 million in the Labor-Health and Human Services appropriation bill now before Congress. [...]

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