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Joe Biden awkwardly fumbled with notes in his suit jacket pocket to answer a reporter's question on something he was briefed on just moments before – as the former White House physician to Donald Trump insists the president take a cognitive test. 'With the most recent hack by the Russians, would you say that this means –' a reporter began asking Biden as he checked out from King Orchards farm store in Central Lake, Michigan on Saturday. The 78-year-old president, however, cut off the reporter, saying U.S. intelligence is not sure if the hack came from the Kremlin. 'We're not...

Senate Republican John McCain, one of the most vocal advocates for American military intervention in the crisis in Syria, is firing back after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s op-ed in the New York Times last week, in which the Russian chastised Americans for considering a military strike in Syria and slammed the notion of American exceptionalism. In an op-ed submitted to the Russian newspaper Pravda, McCain tells the Russian people that Putin "rules for himself, not you." The piece was posted on the paper's website, Pravda.ru, shortly before 10 a.m. Thursday, Moscow time. He also says that although he has been...

Peggy Noonan's weekend column, Americans Vote for Maturity, is generally supportive of the Tea Parties, but she can't resist joining the chorus of ruling class Republicans grousing about "unqualified" candidates. She concludes: Americans don't want, as their representatives, people who seem empty or crazy. They'll vote no on that. It's not just the message, it's the messenger. Without specifics, this is a fair enough point.  But who decides that a candidate is "empty or crazy"?  Do we take the word of the mainstream media and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee that Rand Paul, Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell are...

Whoopee!The last time Obama had a formal press conference was the infamous 'cops acted stupidly' one on July 22, 2009.He'll be taking questions starting (around) 12:45 p.m. EDT.The Nation waits....

It's usually best in the American context to keep one's criticisms of Israel polite and measured, but there are times when it's better to be blunt in the hopes of achieving clarity. Israel's current war in Lebanon is strategically blinkered and morally obtuse. The idea that the United States or American Jews like me should support it out of friendship is akin to the notion that a real friend would lend a car to a drunk buddy after the bartender confiscates his keys. I understand why the Israeli government and public think this war is a good idea, but they're...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said Thursday he is considering legislation to cut off funding for the Bush administration‘s secret domestic wiretapping program until he gets satisfactory answers about it from the White House. Specter said he had informed President Bush about his intention and that he has attracted several potential co-sponsors. He said he‘s become increasingly frustrated in trying to elicit information about the program from senior White House officials at several public hearings. "It is true that we have no assurance that the president would follow any statute that we enact," Specter said. He said he‘s considering...

Pay attention, civilians. Actor Charlie Sheen has been focusing his mind on the official explanation for 9/11. And you know what? He's not buying it. "It just didn't look like any commercial jetliner I've flown on any time in my life," the Hotshots Part Deux star told a US radio station this week, "and then when the buildings came down later on that day, I said to my brother 'call me insane', but did it sorta look like those buildings came down in a controlled demolition?" You're insane. Next. "It seems to me like 19 amateurs with box cutters taking...

Weve all seen and heard of a place called Free Republic, its full of divorced or wife-beating conservative slobs who have the hygene of John Goodman after a long picnic. They thrive on stupid,worthless topics that focus around the "wonder of life" and "lets keep people who cant feel or think alive because were to stubborn to admit that its pretty damn foolish". But above all other abominations in this world is the wretched "Admin Mod", a man of horrible values and the judgement of a meth lab. It is he who makes free republic, well not free at all,...

[ snip ] Well, three things happened last week. (Don't things always happen in threes?) First, I heard Rush Limbaugh say, "Liberals hate America." That was my fault for listening, you might be thinking, and you're right. People often call to complain about Limbaugh. "He just said that liberals like it when Americans are killed in Iraq," a caller recently said, and I answered, as I always do, "Don't listen." If you were Jewish and the station promoted hatred of Jews, would you listen? Would you patronize their advertisers? But I do not always take my own advice [ snip...

New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has long been rumored as desperately seeking the democratic nomination for president in 2008. And while many political observers fully expect the power hungry former First Lady to hit the campaign trail within only a few months of being re-elected as a US Senator in 2006, US News & World report claims to have a confirmation of sorts. From USNews.Com's Washington Whispers: Hillary's in… You don't have to take it from us about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's desire to run for president. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham, say it's true. Friends...

Stop the presses! Chatterbox predicted May 11 that right-wing culture warriors would soon be blaming the Abu Ghraib prison scandal on the depravities of the 1960s. But various readers alerted Chatterbox that quite a few conservative commentators (most of them second-tier) have already come tantalizingly close to making just that point: Blame moral relativism. Richard Land, head of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, to Rachell Zoll of the Associated Press: "This is not a breakdown in the system. This reflects a breakdown in society. These people's moral compass didn't work for some reason. My guess is...

Coming soon: The Al Gore TV network! Posted: June 20, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 Tribune Media Services, Inc. Who said Al Gore must have fallen off the face of the earth? Wrong! He's back, bigger and better than ever, trying to become the Roger Ailes of the left. As first reported by Time magazine, the reason Gore hasn't been heard of lately is that he's been busy behind the scenes, trying to put together a new media empire. The former vice president is rounding up venture capitalists to help to launch a new cable TV and radio network featuring progressive talk-show...

Group imagines a world without hatred Wednesday, July 10, 2002 People gather at "Peace Together," a celebration of humanity, diversity and hope Tuesday at the Peace Plaza. (Elizabeth Nida/Post-Bulletin) By Nicole Garrison The Post-Bulletin Members of a local discussion group have taken a page from John Lennon's song book: They imagine people of all religions, colors and creeds living together in peace. You may say they are dreamers, but Monday they proved they are not the only ones. More than 30 people joined members of the "Hope from the World's Ashes" discussion group at the Peace Plaza in downtown Rochester...