The FBI has arrested Rod Blagojevich, the Governor of Illinois, and say that he was recorded on a federal wiretap discussing how much he could get for picking a replacement to fill President-elect Barack Obama's senate seat. Some highlights from the indictment (the numbers are the paragraph numbers ...

It's always nice to see a jerk get what's coming, isn't it? In 2003 Diane Way worked in Toronto for the Canada Revenue Agency - she was a lawyer for the tax people, but I'll let that comic goldmine pass - when she applied for, and was offered, a job in Ottawa with the Canadian Forces Grievance Board...

As I listened to the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Gordon Brown, dodge Steve Inskeep's questions on NPR this morning, I was reminded for perhaps the millionth time in the last eight years that in comparison to other world leaders President Bush sounds - how to put this delicately? - like a boob. ...

From an article by Benjamin Wallace Wells about the efforts of Tom Cole, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, to raise money for the 2008 elections: "Many conservative activists have become so dissatisfied with the party’s heresies, particularly on immigration and governmen...

On Wednesday, Eliot Spitzer, the Governor of New York, announced his resignation after reports emerged that he had been recorded on a federal wiretap making arrangements to pay a prostitute over $4,000 for her services. The following is a transcript of a document believed by some to be Governor Spit...

Dan Froomkin's Friday column at the WashingtonPost.com website leads with the news that "Timothy S. Goeglein, a top White House aide who is President Bush's chief liaison to religious groups, has admitted to plagiarizing a column he wrote for his hometown paper." And it looks like the column, about ...

Also on this date: In 1661, Oliver Cromwell was executed; his severed head was stuck on a pole (for 24 years!!!) and his body was hanged in chains before being thrown in a pit. One can assume that the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland was not greatly inconvenienced ...

An article in today's Washington Post quotes one of former Utah Governor Mitt Romney's advisers in the current campaign to choose him as the Republican Party's candidate in the 2008 presidential election. The adviser spoke to the Post on the condition of anonymity, standard operating procedure for f...