Surging and Purging
    By Paul Krugman
    The New York Times 
There’s something happening here, and what it is seems completely clear: the Bush administration is trying to protect itself by purging independent-minded prosecutors.
    Last month, Bud Cummins, the U.S. attorney (federal prosecutor) for the Eastern District of Arkansas, received a call on his cellphone while hiking in the woods […]

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46. James Carville
Charges: This unholy cross between Batboy and Terry Bradshaw has been vastly overrated as a political strategist based on the fact that he managed to win with the most charismatic Democratic candidate of the post-war era and a split conservative vote. In ‘06, Carville raged against his […]

 Sens. Mark Pryor and Blanche Lincoln, both Democrats, made their second trip to the White House in two weeks.
They said after a visit with National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley that they still lacked enough information to support the increase of more than 21,500 soldiers that President Bush announced last week.
Lincoln said she leaned toward supporting […]

The highly anticipated official announcement that Hillary Rhodam Clinton is running for the Presidency of the United States will happen in the next few days. She’s got the brains, she’s got the money and she’s got the backing of the beltway. The question is, is America ready for a female President? Maybe, and the unintented […]