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It was almost a 1-in-3 weekend for the watchdog, in which — once again — a question that wasn't asked was very nearly answered. On ABC's This Week, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger praised John McCain's take on the economy, urging voters to look...

For decades, residents of the Coal Run neighborhood of east-central Ohio had to haul water from wells or collect rainwater to drink, cook, and bathe. Their story might be quaint, except that the decades stretched from the 1950s to the 21st Century and, as a federal...

For the latest installment of The Week in Blog over at Bloggingheads.tv, the Heritage Foundation's Conn Carroll and I discussed the new Health Care for America Now coalition which Campaign for America's Future helped forge.

Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked....

“As through this world I’ve wandered, I’ve seen lots of funny men; Some will rob you with a gun; And some with a fountain pen. Woody Guthrie Look out folks, you’re about to get fleeced.  We’re getting sent the bill for the bankers’ bacchanalia.  They had the party,...

Phil Gramm thinks that the economy is wonderful and those that feel otherwise are mistaken. This is does not make Gramm uniquely callous. It just makes him a conservative. For several years, conservatives have been mightily trying to insist the economy tastes great,...

Sen. John McCain, I'm one of your friends, right? The kind of friend who can handle some of your special brand of Straight Talk™. So why won't you just tell me you hate Social Security? Twice this week you lambasted the founding principle of Social Security, that, as...

My dad, who died six years ago today, was a cowboy. A real one, complete with beat-up Stetson and muddy ropers and a Ford pickup and an ancient blanket-lined Levi's jean jacket that smelled of manure, leather, horse sweat, and tobacco -- the distinctive aroma of all...

It's not just Texas. Rick blogged yesterday on the collapsing roads and bridges of Denton County, Texas. Unsurprisingly, it's happening in other places, too. From today's Arizona Star: PHOENIX — From Wickenburg to Eagar, streets in cities and towns across Arizona are...

On Monday, I not only noted that Sen. John McCain's health care plan represents a bigger political risk than Sen. Barack Obama's, but also that the Beltway punditocracy would presume the opposite. That didn't take long. Here's yesterday's Boston Globe analysis...