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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....

Two political realities only some in Washington currently grasp. Health care is consistently one the top three issues voters cite as priorities for the next president. And about two-thirds of voters want their government to guarantee health care for everyone. The...

Al Gore has said, “If the President made climate change the organizing principle, the filter through which everything else had to flow, then that could really make a huge difference." In other words, by prioritizing the climate crisis, we’re not simply saving the...

Republicans, Democrats and independents in New Hampshire all agree: the economy isn't working for them. The exit poll of voters in the Dem primary, 44% of whom were independents, spoke loud and clear. 86% said the economy was "not so good" or "poor." 97% are "very" or...

Last month, President tried to give a "don't worry, be happy" pep talk on the economy, only to be confronted with an actual voter, and being forced to acknowledge the economic "storm clouds." Yesterday, in another economic speech, Bush was compelled to scale back the...

Bill Kristol's New York Times column debuted today. It included a factual error, attributing a Michael Medved quote to Michelle Malkin. That was an appropriate beginning, as Kristol will surely have the Times corrections desk working overtime. Kristol regularly twists...

The Sunday shows start off the New Year going 0-for3 for the Watchdog. While CBS' Bob Schieffer and NBC's Tim Russert did ask Sen. McCain about his support for staying in Iraq "100 years," they did not ask him how such a stance directly contributes to destabilization...

Earlier this morning, I was on NPR's Bryant Park Project discussing the meaning of the Iowa results, along with Erick Erickson of Red State. Erick acknowledged the deep dislike of Huckabee among conservative bloggers, and general disappointment with the GOP field....

We don't know who will win the Iowa caucuses, but we do know what Iowa voters want. As the leading Democrats seek to eek out a final lead, each delivered copious servings of substance, all pledging to achieve the same goals: an economy that works for everyone, health...

We don't know who will win the Iowa caucuses, but we do know what Iowa voters want. As the leading Democrats seek to eek out a final lead, each delivered copious servings of substance, all pledging to achieve the same goals: an economy that works for everyone, health...