The Lippard Blog

Before Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, the town received no federal funds. As mayor, she hired the Anchorage law firm of Robertso...

Ed Brayton at Dispatches from the Culture Wars shows that McCain's VP nominee, Sarah Palin, didn't take long to utter her first fals...

Arianna Huffington has given a list of occasions on which Arizona Sen. John McCain has "issued heartfelt denials of things that were ac...

From Robert Novak (ick, but it doesn't change the facts here) via Distributed Republic : With the midnight hour approaching on Saturda...

How corrupt is our Congress? They're not even pretending to follow the Constitution. Talking Points Memo reports on how Rep. Don Young ...

The Open Government Act, a bill which would require the government to provide justifications for refusal to answer Freedom of Information Ac...

The Republicans dumped the job of straightening out the government's remaining spending bills for 2006 on the Democrats, who have respon...

It looks like the Democrats are all set to put some of the most corrupt Democrats in Congress into leadership positions in the House . Rep. ...

The Sunlight Foundation (along with Porkbusters, Citizens Against Government Waste, the Heritage Foundation, the Club for Growth, and the Ex...

Congressman Jeff Flake (R-AZ District 6) proposed 19 amendments in order to force yes-or-no votes on earmarks in a bloated appropriations bi...

Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT) says that Jack Abramoff never influenced him, but Abramoff says in Vanity Fair that he got everything he ever aske...

The largest known donor to Rick Santorum's charity, The Operation Good Neighbor Foundation, is Preferred Real Estate, Inc., which donate...