The Hill reports on the good news: Charles Freeman, the Obama administration’s choice to head the National Intelligence Council, has withdrawn from consideration after facing strong opposition from Senate Republicans. Actually Senate Democrats like Chuck Schumer and “Independent Democrat...

Despite the heap of legal troubles he’s in, Governor Blago today announced his pick for Obama’s Senate seat (and no, it isn’t Senate Candidate #5 ): In defiance of U.S. senators who said they would not seat his pick, Gov. Rod Blagojevich today said he would go ahead and select form...

I can’t believe it.  I woke up this morning, turned on the TV and they were talking about his death.   I was hoping I was still asleep and having a dream/nightmare but I wasn’t.  Tony Snow is dead at the age of 53 : Tony Snow, the former White House press secretary and conservative p...

MSNBC’s Tim Russert passed away today from a sudden heart attack while working. He was 58. This is shocking, to say the least. My mouth dropped open when I got the news alert. Russert was one of the few journalists out there who, in my opinion, truly was fair and balanced 95% of the time. He w...

CNN reports : BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) – The hospital treating Sen. Edward Kennedy said Tuesday that the Democratic senator has a malignant brain tumor. The tumor was the cause of his seizure on Saturday, according to a statement from the doctors treating the 76-year-old at Massachusetts Genera...

CNN reports : (CNN) — Deborah Jeane Palfrey, known as the “D.C. Madam,” was found dead in Florida Thursday, according to Tarpon Springs police. Palfrey hanged herself in a storage shed on her mother’s property where she had been staying, according to a police statement. Palfr...

Via AP : ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A top state official says New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has decided to resign amid a prostitution scandal. The official tells The Associated Press the resignation would be effective Monday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement had not...

Via the NYT : ALBANY - Gov. Eliot Spitzer has informed his most senior administration officials that he had been involved in a prostitution ring, an administration official said this morning. Mr. Spitzer, who was huddled with his top aides inside his Fifth Avenue apartment early this afternoon, had ...

CNN reports : HAVANA, Cuba (CNN) — Fidel Castro announced his resignation as president of Cuba and commander-in-chief of Cuba’s military Tuesday, according to a letter published in the state-run newspaper, Granma. The resignation ends nearly a half-century of iron-fisted rule that inspir...