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Aides Say Team Interviewed Palin Late in the Process By Dan Balz Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, September 3, 2008; A01 ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 2 -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was not subjected to a lengthy in-person background interview with the head of Sen. John McCain's vice presidential vetting team until last Wednesday in Arizona, the day before McCain asked her to be his running mate, and she did not disclose the fact that her 17-year-old daughter was pregnant until that meeting, two knowledgeable McCain officials acknowledged Tuesday. Palin was one of two finalists in the vice presidential sweepstakes...

Congress: What, exactly, does House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's latest junket to Iraq have to do with her official duties? Her inability to keep her amateur fingers out of the foreign policy pie suggests a political power grab.Pelosi went to Iraq uninvited Saturday, and her reception was less than warm. Iraq's democratically elected Nouri al-Maliki government wanted nothing to do with her until she admitted the truth about Iraq's progress as a nation and quit braying that U.S. troops must be immediately pulled out, a proposal so naive that even radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr opposes it. Message through, Pelosi admitted that...

Fox just announced that Bush won Dixville Notch 19-7. The earlier 15-15-1 report was for another small town, NOT Dixville!

Editor's note: New Haven's Daniel Smith, a piano tuner by trade, likes to vacation in world hot spots to see for himself, without mass-media blinders, how people are faring and what they're thinking. He traveled to Iraq just as the U.S. nominally handed power over to the country's own rulers. First stop: northern Iraq. June 28: Kirkuk As I walk around, people insist that I sit down to have scalding tea served in little glasses. Kurds warn me to be careful of Arabs and Turkmen, Turkmen warn me to be careful of Arabs and Kurds, and Arabs warn me to...

Gibson 'Disappointed' With Bush, Concerned Over Lack Of Iraq Weapons NBC 6 News Team POSTED: 11:43 am EST March 16, 2004 UPDATED: 12:52 pm EST March 16, 2004 When radio and cable television host Sean Hannity interviewed actor/filmmaker Mel Gibson, the subjects ranged from the impact of Gibson's movie, "The Passion of the Christ," to Gibson's advice to other filmmakers seeking to touch on spritual subjects. But it was a question about President George W. Bush that had commentators talking Tuesday. "I am having my doubts, of late," Gibson said of the president. "It mainly has to do with the...