(image) On Thursday, former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell released his report on the use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs in Major...

(image) I know, I know, guys. Writing articles about Bush is sooooo 2005. Forget outrage fatigue, I know most of us are bordering on outrage catatonia at...

(image) You have to hand it to George W.: he’s got the brainpower of a headless chicken, but the guy sticks to his guns. As he’s proven with Iraq he doesn't...

(image) The House of Representatives is the closest thing Americans have to a truly representative democracy. While states as small as Rhode Island receive...

(image) The White House and some members of Congress have reached an agreement on immigration reform that would grant legal status to millions of people...

(image) As I have said before, the only way for Republicans to survive the 2008 elections will be to crush the White House. The administration is behaving...

(image) During the American Revolutionary war, "Taxation without representation" was a rallying cry for those opposed to England's heavy...

George Bush is king. It happened yesterday, while we were all going about our business. Tony Snow broke the news to us on almost every news show and even...

(image) The US attorneys purge scandal has been heating up for a while and now things are finally starting to get exciting. Today, the House Judiciary...

Remember the nonbinding resolution Congress approved that lightly chastised Bush as command in chief of the armed forces for the continuing failure in Iraq?

Despite vocal opposition to the motion, Democrats passed the non-binding resolution condemning the president's troop escalation in Iraq by a vote of...

These past two weeks have seen one of the more ridiculous debates in recent memory occur in Congress. Patting themselves on the back for their inspiring...

Throwing his battered, unappealing hat into a very crowded ring, Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) announced his formation of an exploratory committee for...

One of the biggest complaints with the Republican-sponsored 2003 prescription drug bill is that it gave the government very little bargaining power with...

The Democrats are on a roll with some momentous new legislation (along with some ...not so momentous) and in doing so have just fulfilled an earlier promise,...

The first 100 hours of the new Democratically controlled Congress is here and it has started with a bang. The House passed anti-terror legislation that...

President Bush is continuing on his journey of destroying America. Today we learned that on December 20th George gave himself the right to open people’s...

With Democrats ready to try and get something accomplished in Congress, they're making their new agenda clear, and part of it is going to include sticking...

With the approval of his handling of Iraq tanking, President Bush revealed today his intent to work with the new congressional leaders on possibly developing...

Friday sees the end of the 109th Congress, infamous for rubber stamping and feet dragging. In fact, even after two years, members of the outgoing Congress...

Now that they're on their way out the door (with a Democratic boot up their asses) the GOP congress has a chance to really show its legislative priorities,...

As a boss, Nancy Pelosi is a huge fucking bummer. This week the new Speaker of the House announced she plans to start the new Congress on January 4th and...

With Virginia Senator George Allen conceding his race to Democratic challenger Jim Webb, American politics experienced a palatial shift. For the first...

After enduring years of excrutiating taunts and outrageous claims at the hands of a Republican federal government, Democrats are finally back in a position...

It's strange to think that in the US just a few decades ago (before Vietnam and Watergate) someone would be considered a cynic if they showed a lack...

America can now celebrate and start to feel good again because a federal judge has vacated the conviction of Kenneth Lay. It totally wipes clean the record...

This week, the editors of SG approached me with the task of interviewing former Republican Congressman Mark Foley in light of his recent resignation. The...

The Family Research Council, the same organization that brought you the "war on porn" and pushed hard for the Clinton impeachment debacle, is...

You've read about the fallout concerning Mark Foley's e-mail based improprieties flirting with young boys on the internet. Now he's out...

The watchdog group Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington (CREW) has released a list of the 20 most corrupt members of Congress. Strangely,...

For months now Democrats have been pushing for a House vote on a federal minimum wage increase, which has not gone up since 1997. It's not much of...

The debate over embryonic stem cell research has slowly and steadily become one of the more charged discussions in modern politics, crystallizing the different...

At a time of international turmoil, with daily reports of violence from Iraq, nuclear war threatened from North Korea, and reports of the Taliban gaining...

Another blow was struck today in the ongoing battle between those who would like to expand and those would prefer to limit the power of the executive branch.

John Jacob of Utah is running for Congress against five-term incumbent Chris Cannon and having a very difficult time, mostly because of Satan. As everyone...

Global warming, and its causes and subsequent effects, is a contentious issue. Well, contentious at least in Washington DC, where politicians seem to be...

Senate Republicans killed a proposed increase in the minimum wage Wednesday, keeping it at a healthy $5.15 a hour. There has not been a increase in the...

A landmark piece of civil rights legislations, the voting rights act, passed in 1965 to ensure a lack of discrimination in registration of voters and access...