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John McCain Wants to Lower Your Cable Bill
In an ideal world, television viewers would only pay for those shows and channels that they actually care about. The concept, known as TV a la carte, has been a...
Prince Harry Opens Weeklong U.S. Visit
(WASHINGTON) — A buttoned-down Prince Harry joined Michelle Obama in honoring military families Thursday and toured an exhibition in Congress about land-mines,...
McCain, Other U.S. Senators to Tour Mexico Border
(PHOENIX) — A group of U.S. senators who will be influential in shaping and negotiating details of an immigration reform package is traveling to the U.S.-Mexico...
Double Trouble
I'll hit him high ... ... I'll hit him low When republican senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham arrived for an Oval Office meeting with President Obama on...
Refighting the Last Wars
There was a time when John McCain was a reasonable man. It was a while back, but I remember it well. It was, specifically, about seven or eight years ago, when...
McCain v Hagel
John McCain's first round interrogation of Chuck Hagel was rude and uncouth, but Hagel's answer wasn't quite satisfactory, either. Hagel opposed the 2007 Iraq...
Chuck Hagel’s Third Purple Heart
Chuck Hagel, who earned a pair of Purple Hearts as a grunt in Vietnam, all but earned a third on Thursday during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed...
John McCain To Chuck Hagel: I Told You So
Senators John McCain and Chuck Hagel are old friends, both decorated Vietnam veterans, and they agree on many controversial things, from the overreach of...
Benghazi Baloney
Scott Shane has a fine piece of analysis today about the real issues involved in the Benghazi imbrogliowhich is to say the issues not being raised by the...
The First Presidential Debate: A Test of Character, Not Necessarily Substance
We tend to process debates with our reptile brains. We watch for moments of conflict, wit, fallibility. In theory debates are edifying exchanges and arguments...
The New John McCain, Just Like…Mitt Romney?
There’s no way to know what John McCain really thinks of Mitt Romney, who was enjoying draft deferments in France while McCain was an invited guest at the Hanoi...
Shame on You, John McCain
Listening to John McCain tonight, you’ve got to wonder if Sheldon Adelson has been giving him some kind of break at the craps tables. His speech was a noxious...
Sauer Grapes: Do the Lockheed and McCain Dots Connect?
Senator John McCain (R.-Ariz.) and the Lockheed Martin Corp. have been behaving in ways that parallel one another. That could be explained by their common...
Why God Invented C-SPAN: McCain on Huma Abedin
2008 GOP presidential nominee Senator John McCain took to the Senate floor Wednesday to lambast five of his House colleagues and defend Secretary of State...
“…more people have the ability to harm us or restrict our freedom to act today than at any point in our lives.”
– Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., in a letter Thursday to Army General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, noting McCain’s opposition to the $487 billion...
Tough-Talking McCain Has Soothing Words on Egypt's NGO Crackdown
Senator John McCain may have taken a hawkish line on Syria, during his visit to Egypt on Monday, but his tone was more conciliatory on Egypt's crackdown on U.S...
Rand Paul Calls John McCain a Troll
–Senator Rand Paul, rebuking John McCain for quoting a Wall Street Journal editorial that compared opponents of Boehner’s debt ceiling plan to characters from...
Why John McCain Is Optimistic About Libya
The war in Libya is not going well. Muammar Gaddafi shows no sign of giving up power. His forces' siege of the rebel-held city of Misratah has killed upwards of...
McCain Visits Rebels In Libya And Calls For Increased Support
Is Sen. John McCain's visit Friday morning to the Benghazi strong-hold of Libya's rebel forces a sign of creeping escalation in the conflict with strongman...
