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Today Arizona Sen. John McCain will deliver what his handlers are hyping as a major address on health care. McCain’s plan is a dangerous fraud. He wants voters to think he is going after health care cost inflation. In reality, he wants to dismantle the...

The Huffington Post front page headline now is "Pentagon Shelves 'Propaganda' Program, but reading the full story, it doesn't seem like it's going to be too hard for the Pentagon to pick it back up off the shelf. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the program was...

What pressing issues facing our country do the pundits think you don't care about today? Stateline.org: 23 states face budget gaps in '09 Like a college student fishing for stray quarters in the sofa cushions, states are tightening their belts, dipping into their...

You will not be surprised to find out that the Sunday shows failed to ask any question about global warming, the continued TV news blackout of the NY Times report on "military analysts" spoon

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....

Sen. John McCain on Monday, about the lower 9th ward of New Orleans: We need to go back to have a conversation about what to do: rebuild it, tear it down, you know, whatever it is. Sen. John McCain, three days later: I don’t remember ever saying it. Straight...

Over at Bloggingheads.tv, I do a regular "This Week In Blog" feature, recounting the hot topics in the liberal and conservative blogospheres. This week I was joined by Townhall.com's Amanda Carpenter, and we discussed blog reaction to the PA primary, Sen. Clinton's...

David Broder’s April 24 Washington Post column on Arizona Sen. John McCain, entitled “The Democrats’ Worst Nightmare,” concludes with this little nugget: “Yet, in pointing to those vulnerabilities in her rival, Clinton has heightened the most obvious liability she...

My colleague Isaiah says McCain is offering nothing but "inaction" in his visit to New Orleans' lower Ninth Ward, as McCain continues to offer another eight years of do-nothing conservatism from our government. But apparently he's fine with certain kinds of government...

The conservative war against the war on poverty continues today as Arizona Sen. John McCain goes to the Ninth Ward in New Orleans. From what we've seen so far, McCain is coming to the still-devastated city with nothing that will actually address the compounded...