The Washington Post has found itself embroiled in an ethics scandal involving a poorly conceived money-raising venture that the paper has moved fast to cancel and excuse:
Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth said today she was canceling plans for an exclusive “salon” at her home where for as much as $250,000, the Post offered lobbyists and [...]

You know, it’s nice that we’re talking about the “Commerce Department’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership” and the “National Innovation Marketplace” coming in… (whatever that means.) It’s thoughtful of you to think of ways to connect “suppliers” with “buyers” (suppliers and buyers of what?) And it’s convenient of you to put two and two together (auto manufacturers, [...]

‘What?!’ you say? You don’t see my logic? Well, my train of thought starts here:
Let’s start with Mark Sanford, who has inspired a new phrase — “I went hiking on the Appalachian Trail” — to describe any kind of mysterious disappearance. [...] Next, there’s Sarah Palin, who has had a rough last several [...]

Solar Energy: “We’re trying to lay a foundation for a new economy…We are investing not in digging more oil wells but in building more wind farms, investing in solar energy….We are going to have an economy that [is] not based on a bubble.” (Media Teleconference, 6/8/09)
This Tuesday, Joe Biden will be traveling to a solar [...]

“The mother lode of all data information will be from the Census. … Unfortunately, the Census data has become very intricate, very personal, a lot of the questions that are asked. I know for my family, the only question we will be answering is how many people are in our home. We won’t be answering [...]

Politicians don’t like to get egg on their faces, but one Czech politician is having a particularly difficult time avoiding that. Jiri Paroubek of the Social Democrat Party has raised the ire of his opponents to the point that he is routinely pelted with eggs — hundreds of eggs.
Two weeks ago, someone threw an egg [...]

The Wall Street Journal helpfully reprints, without direct comment, Barack Obama’s written justification for voting against John Roberts for the Supreme Court.
After reading Obama’s justification, I’m pretty sure anyone opposing Sonia Sotomayor could simply cut-and-paste the argument, make a few slight changes and call it a day. Why? Because Obama’s entire written statement is just [...]

Bored with the slots? Check out the latest entertainment offering at my local gambling hole, the Foxwoods Resort Casino.
For $20 (or $18 in Foxwoods “Dream Points”), gamblers can enjoy “BODIES REVEALED,” a traveling museum exhibit featuring rubberized human cadavers frozen in cutesy sports poses.
I’ve been a relentless critic of competing corpse shows. Let’s just [...]

John Feehery, who served House Speaker Hastert and several other Republicans on the Hill, had this to say about the GOP party today. Like Feehery, “I am a Republican and have been all of my life.” And, I agree that “for the Republican Party to prosper, it must appeal to the close to 40 [...]

After listening to conservative religious leaders talk about preserving the 5000 years of traditional marriage between a man and a woman on NPR last week, I just had to laugh at the notion that marriage was a true reflection of family values and love.  For the most part, marriages were arranged and women were considered [...]

As this is my first post here at Donklephant, I should start with a brief introduction. I’m an ‘Illinois Republican’ who has spent the last decade living and working on the fringes of politics in Washington, DC. I previously wrote at ‘The Yellow Line’ with Alan Stewart Carl and am excited to re-join [...]

2008 Senator Lindsey Graham seems to disagree with 2009 Lindsey Graham.
This is Mike Fritz and David Murdock from ANP.
Senator Lindsey Graham was a passionate critic of the Bush Justice attorneys during this past summer’s Armed Services Committee hearings on interrogation.
Lately, however, Graham seems to have had second thoughts on the matter. At a recent Judiciary [...]

The global warming debate is heating up in the House, leading to the kind of quirky moments that are a common feature of life on the Hill.
Next week, Henry Waxman (D-CA), will bring his Waxman-Markey climate-control bill before the Energy and Commerce Committee he chairs.
Just minutes after Waxman announced he was “very, very close” to [...]

Usually, when people debate why the conservative movement has hit hard times, they argue about whether Republicans are fiscally conservative enough or whether they are too focused on social issues. Rarely does the third tent pole of modern conservativism get mentioned: the national security conservatives. But that’s the exact group to blame argues Daniel Larison [...]

As the initial glee/schadenfreude/controversy/whatever over Arlen Specter’s fade to blue wears off, and Specter himself seems to have finally reversed course and learned to keep his mouth shut rather than the apparently explicit strategy of running on a platform of “Hey, let’s be clear…this wasn’t about principle, it was about opportunism”, the dust is settling [...]

After the first 100 days of Obama’s presidency there was much ink spilt in the USA on domestic policy changes during this so called ‘honeymoon period’. In Britain, however, we are more concerned with Obama’s foreign policy, and have the advantage of distance (both geographical and theoretical) from which to give an assessment on that.
Obama [...]

Trivia question: Who were the last three Supreme Court justices to be appointed by Democratic presidents? The most recent are pretty straightforward — both Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer still serve on the high court.  But prior to that, it had been over 40 years since Lyndon Johnson appointed Thurgood Marshall as the first [...]

I saw this at Doug’s place and had to share it.
From Bloomberg…
Dutch researchers followed 1,373 men for more than four decades, noting their eating and drinking habits. Men who had about 20 grams of alcohol daily — equivalent to a half a glass of wine — had 2 1/2 years added to their life expectancy [...]

You would think this year’s Mortgage Bankers Association annual meeting would be a rather solemn affair — given the criticism the industry has endured in recent months. But while filming at the meeting I found the bankers in a celebratory mood. The reason? A massive lobbying campaign against bankruptcy reform legislation known as “cram-down” was [...]

As nations around the world confirm more and more cases of swine flu, the World Health Organization has decided to raise the phase of alert to 5, which is one level short of an all-out pandemic.
The WHO said the phase 5 alert means there is sustained human to human spread in at least two countries. [...]