The Lippard Blog

"It's vile. It's more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexu...

Ryan Bird wrote "Kip Hawley is an idiot" on his clear plastic bag of toiletries that he was carrying through a TSA security checkp...

A bit of an update from my post in May where I asked “ Is there really a housing bubble? ” Although I wasn’t completely convinced then, I t...

Old, but still quite appropriate... narration by Stephen Colbert.

One of the pages who received inappropriate messages from Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) worked for Rep. Rodney Alexander (R-Louisiana). Alexander ...

That was quick. Rep. Mark Foley (R-Florida), whose emails to a former Congressional page asking him for a photograph and his birthday were ...

Both Arlen Specter and John McCain have publicly stated that they thought there were unconstitutional provisions in the Military Commissions...

Ken Mehlman arranged for a $16 million contract to be granted to the Mississippi Choctaw tribe (an Abramoff client) in exchange for their do...

The TRUSTe program is supposed to certify that a website has a reasonable privacy policy. But Ben Edelman has cross-referenced TRUSTe certi...

From TPM Muckraker : Hundreds of contacts between top White House officials and former lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his associates "raise...