Stephen C. Webster

Far-right Christian fundamentalist group Family Research Council has a clever idea for raising money: convince supporters that President Barack Obama will take away their Bibles and turn their kids gay.
That’s essentially what the group’s newest fundraising alert amounts to, with its claim that the president has a “plan” to “impose homosexuality” and “silence Christianity.”
It’s hard [...]

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), one of the U.S. Senate’s key opponents to a so-called public option for health care, admitted during a Tuesday appearance on C-SPAN that he has indeed “lived off the public tit” since coming to Congress, and that he participates in a federal farm subsidies program.
The odd refrain came after a caller [...]

Do it now, son.
It’s an expression of disrespect, calling someone your “son” if they are not indeed your progeny. So when former lawmaker Sarah Palin closed a recent Facebook post with “Thank you, Mr. President,” surely she did not mean it, considering the contents of a letter she had just posted.
The missive was [...]

The Bush administration permitted the world’s most notorious terrorist mastermind to escape because it needed additional justification to invade Iraq, according to a Democratic lawmaker from New York.
Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) leveled the allegation during an interview with MSNBC host David Shuster on Monday afternoon.
“Look what happened with regard to our invasion into Afghanistan, [...]

Documents long classified but scheduled to be released at the end of 2009 will not see the light of day just yet thanks to the Obama administration, according to a published report.
Under pressure to grant an extension to intelligence agencies that have reviewed only a fraction of the “millions of pages,” the administration is allowing [...]