A top strategist for the Texas Democrats who was disappointed by the Bill Clinton years, Mr. Dowd was impressed by the pledge of Mr. Bush, then governor of Texas, to bring a spirit of cooperation to Washington. He switched parties, joined Mr. Bush’s political brain trust and dedicated the next six years to getting him [...]

Spring break checklist for Congress: A plane ticket back home, chocolate (or matzo) for the family and a war spending bill for the president.The last item might need to wait.Senate Democrats beat back Republican efforts Tuesday to strip a key provision of the $122 billion wartime spending package that sets goals for withdrawing troops from [...]

Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama shakes hands with supporters following a speech at the Farmer’s Public Market Building in Oklahoma City, Monday, March 19, 2007. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, John Clanton)

Speaking early this month at a church in Selma, Ala., Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) said: “I’m in Washington. I see what’s going on. I [...]

More Than You Wanted to Know About Health Care

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, (D-N.Y.) speaks to an audience at The Cox Pavilion, Saturday, March 24, 2007 in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Eric Jamison)

LAS VEGAS — Because you did not want to spend your Saturday sitting in a room for three hours listening [...]

Gas tax increase weighed as option to improve Michigan roads
There is no question that here in Michigan, we have a problem with our roads and bridges. Many need repair and need to be replaced. Spring is called “pothole” season around here, and it only seems to get worse every year. I would [...]

FIFTEEN British sailors and marines arrested by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards off the coast of Iraq may be charged with spying.A website run by associates of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, reported last night that the Britons would be put before a court and indicted.Referring to them as “insurgents”, the site concluded: “If it is proven [...]

Take some time to view the Clinton Foundation.

Through the William J. Clinton Foundation, President Clinton promotes the values of fairness and opportunity for all. His vision is the Foundation’s mission: to strengthen the capacity of people in the United States and throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence. Together with the [...]

Students at St. Hugo of the Hills must delete pages on Web site today or risk suspension
A suburban Detroit Catholic school, St. Hugo of the Hills, has ordered their students that if they have a MySpace webpage, that it must be taken down immediately or they will risk suspension. In my opinion, that school, or [...]

The House barely passed a $124 billion spending bill Friday to fund military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, establish benchmarks for political progress by the Iraqi government and set a deadline next summer for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq.Approved largely along party lines, 218 to 212, the measure was the first by [...]

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