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Reid Challenger Feels Backlash After Questioning Assassination Attempt

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Sue Lowden's campaign to unseat Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in his 2010 re-election bid took a nosedive when she laughed about an assassination attempt against Reid.

The former chairwoman of the Nevada Republican Party had emerged from the GOP pack of little-known Reid challengers...

New Mexico Democratic Party Plagued by Corruption Cases

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New Mexico's Democratic Party is besieged by corruption cases, throwing the state's political future into disarray.
The party has suffered arrests and convictions of two state treasurers and the former Senate president pro tempore, and indictments of a director of affordable housing and a...

What Did Teddy Know About JFK’s Assassination?

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Melinda, I'm as curious as you are to read what Ted Kennedy writes about poor Mary Jo, but I am more excited that "True Compass," the late senator's memoir, will tell us what Teddy ultimately came to believe about the violence that plagued his family and its dark source....

Kentucky Murder Saga Stirs Political Circles

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A Kentucky murder has rocked that state's political circles, leaving the son of a legendary governor facing the death penalty and his 29-year-old former fiancee dead of a gunshot wound to the head.

 

Political Fiction a Hot Genre

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James Grady is at the top of his form in his "What's Going On: A Political Fiction" novella up on the Politics Daily site.

 

Sen. John Ensign: I Broke No Law, and I Won’t Resign

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Nevada Republican Sen. John Ensign, under increasing attack following his affair with a staffer,
told CNN Tuesday he did not break Senate ethics rules by helping to secure a lobbying job for the woman's husband.

Michelle Obama’s Slave Roots

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The much-ballyhooed front page New York Times story about the First Lady's slave roots played down the most fascinating aspect of the story: The "unknown white man" who fathered Michelle Obama's great-great-great grandmother.

 

Coup to ‘Resolve the Obama Problem’: Shades of 1933

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When conservative online magazine Newsmax recently posted a column suggesting that a military coup to "resolve the Obama problem" was a distinct possibility, the resulting uproar led to its immediate removal from the magazine's Web site.

Vegas Casino Boss Bets Heavily Against Dems

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