Salon News + Politics
The Tea Party candidate other Republicans hate is ahead in Nevada
Republican U.S. Senate primary voters in Nevada, you have three choices: the "chickens for healthcare" lady, the one the Tea Party people chose for you, and the other guy.
Taliban deny attending peace talks
EU nations back tougher sanctions to combat debt
Tea Party candidate Chuck DeVore, "military reservist," was not "shot at" in Lebanon
The race to lose to California Sen. Barbara Boxer is one of the most heated and amusing in the nation. Carly Fiorina is the candidate with the most national name recognition, thanks to a stint as a McCain campaign surrogate that was almost as disastrous as her term as CEO of Hewlett-Packard. She's locked in a tight race with two other guys: former Rep. Tom Campbell and Assemblyman Chuck DeVore. Except DeVore doesn't want to be called "Assemblyman." On the ballot, he'll be referred to as "military reservist." Oh, he also maybe slightly misled people about (guess what) his military service.
State dinner crashers stopped near White House
Staten Island GOP endorses drunk ex-congressman with secret family
Former Staten Island Congressman Vito Fossella is back! If that doesn't excite you, you probably don't remember the booze-soaked story of his shameful double life.
Clinton condemns North Korea attack
Rand Paul: W.H. criticism of BP sounds "un-American"
The lesson of Rand Paul: libertarianism is juvenile
Rand Paul blew up the Internet. Did you notice? Here's how it went down: first, he suggested unmistakably that he opposed the Civil Rights Act. Then he tried unsuccessfully to weasel his way out, under near-implacable questioning. This was when people got really worked up. So Paul put out a press release, the strategy of which was more or less to deny that the previous 24 hours had happened. In the meantime, those of us who hail from the Internet have lost the ability to talk about anything else.