A hoax? Like people in Wyoming dressed up in bigfoot outfits, with chupacabra footprint makers, to make the murder of Shephard look like an anti-gay crime when it really wasn’t?

The secrecy that Cliff Stearns defends amounts to nothing more than a conspiracy to commit serious crimes that didn’t help the American people one jot. That’s not what I’d call intelligence.

During the 110th Congress, Senators Jim DeMint, Mike Enzi and David Vitter teamed up to propose S. 2409, a bill to do… what? Solve the problem of the national debt? Help find a way to cure some new disease? Uh, no. They penned a bill to mandate that the Capitol Hill Visitors’ Center always prominently [...]

Why does Virginia Foxx keep asking to be re-elected, to return to work in Washington, if she really hates the place so much?

Who wins and how much when Senator Arlen Specter switches his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat later this week? Arlen Specter wins big. Within the Republican Party, Neanderthal Pat Toomey was liable to beat Specter in the 2010 Republican Senatorial primary because Pennsylvania Republicans are Neanderthals… and then lose big time in the fall [...]

The legislation creates a 5 cent tax every time a plastic shopping bag is used. The funds from the tax would go into a trust fund to support conservation efforts.

Number of members of the House of Representatives signing on in support of H. Res. 329, a symbolic resolution commemorating the sinking of a steamboat 143 years ago today: 54 Number of members of the House of Representatives signing on in support of H.R. 104, a bill to create an independent commission to investigate practices [...]

In*tol*er*ant. adj. not tolerating or respecting beliefs, opinions, usages, manners, etc., different from one’s own, as in political or religious matters; bigoted (Random House Dictionary) Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma has announced his intention to filibuster the confirmation of David Hamilton to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Why? On November 30, 2005, as [...]

It seems that in four years, the Blue Dog Democrats never once managed to get a press release placed on their own web site, though, and now they’ve reduced the site to essentially nothing.

These animals are key ecological players whose presence aids the proper functioning of entire ecosystems. So, who wouldn’t want to support their conservation. Bobby Bright, that’s who, a freshman Representative shaping up to be one of the most regressive Democrats in Congress.