Recent polls show that Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and Baptist preacher, is rising in popularity in Iowa, where he is cutting into Mitt Romney’s lead. (Romney has 28 percent, Huckabee has 24 percent in the ABC news survey; Romney is at 27 percent and Huckabee’s at 18 percent in the local KCCI-TV [...]

Today’s Shocker from Borowitz:
In a stunning development that has confounded medical experts around the world, doctors examining Vice President Dick Cheney said today that they have detected signs of a heart…
“We had been operating under the assumption that he didn’t have one,” said chief of staff David Addington, who said that Mr. Cheney also [...]

As a registered Independent in Florida, I don’t get to vote in either the Democratic or Republican primaries — not that it would mean anything if I could. But if I could it would mean that I would at least have the opportunity of voting for Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich before his campaign gets ground [...]

Here’s an interesting development in the increasingly heated speculation about what led Sen. Trent Lott to announce his resignation from the Senate yesterday.
On Larry Flynt’s website, Flynt has posted an excerpt from PageOneQ, a Washington-based website that has a record of accurately identifying closeted Republican politicians:
“Once upon a time,” writes Big Head DC [another [...]

The American Red Cross announced it has fired its president and CEO, Mark Everson, because he conducted an improper “personal relationship” with a subordinate employee.
According to the Associated Press, “the Red Cross asked for and received Everson’s resignation, effective immediately, after learning of the relationship.”
Everson and his wife, Nanette, have two children. The employee was [...]

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
— George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish dramatist

Cable newsers are ga-ga over breaking news that Dick Cheney’s doctors discovered that he had an irregular heartbeat today:
“During examination he was incidentally found to have an irregular heartbeat, which on further testing was determined to be atrial fibrillation, an abnormal rhythm involving the upper chambers of the heart,” said spokeswoman Megan Mitchell.
She said Cheney [...]

“We must learn to live together as brothers or we are going to perish together as fools.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 – 1968) Civil rights leader, minister

In 1999, former Pres. George Bush famously said, “I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors.”
John Gibson, the Fox News anchor, takes an opposite view. He says he wants to “give a medal” [...]

Trent Lott, the man who is probably best remembered for saying that the United States would have been a better place if Strom Thurmond, the South Carolina racist, had been elected president in 1948, is retiring from the Senate:
Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi, the Senate’s No. 2 Republican, plans to resign his seat before the [...]