A quick tour of the news channels shows CNN reporting on the supplemental, MSNBC on Cho’s escort service dealings and Fox looking at border regulation. No one is currently reporting on the hearing regarding Pat Tillman’s “friendly fire” death in Afghanistan (remember that war?). If journalism is the first draft of history, Congressional hearings are [...]

Tom Hamburger of the LA Times reports a new and potentially significant investigation by a normally obscure federal office, one that is looking at whether the nexus of the various scandals of the day might be at the White House. Hamburger writes: The new investigation, which will examine the firing of at least one U.S. [...]

This was a very good speech for several reasons: 1. It transcended the usual Bush-bashing–though there was plenty of that–and was a reminder that foreign policy is about more than Iraq and the region. 2. It was courageous, calling for more money for foreign aid, which is quite unpopular in the country and easily exploitable [...]

Who could this eyewitness to the David/Crow/Rove smackdown possibly be? In the eyewitness’ version, again, David and Crow are a bit more aggressive than their own story suggests. The eyewitness says David told Rove, You need to bring in new people to tell you the truth. Rove mentioned Dr. John Marburger, the White House science [...]

Thanks a ton for all the questions you posed here. It will take awhile to work through them; I decided to start with some housekeeping-related queries first. A nice batch was submitted by paul_lukasiak: 1) You have the title of “editor of Time.com” Do you actually perform any editorial functions — do you, for instance, [...]

Turns out Barack Obama had a long-term relationship with the real estate developer who helped the Senator expand his South Side property. Turns out the developer was a slumlord. Turns out John Edwards, populist crusader against offshore tax breaks, worked for a hedge fund that offered offshore tax breaks. My bet: Both these stories seem [...]

The Correspondents’ dinner is still wreaking a little havoc with my head. Will get to your questions ASAP. Speaking of the dinner: Yes, a good friend (best friend, really) and I had a lengthy, animated, and basically serious conversation with Justice Scalia at the Vanity Fair party after the dinner. We discussed the partial birth [...]

In my column this week I reported that Kos had bashed Barack Obama for his position on Iraq war funding. Obama said he was opposed to adding a withdrawal timetable, or deadline, to the next funding bill the Democrats send Bush after he vetoes the current legislation. Kos accused Obama of surrendering. In a subsequent [...]

TotT is a daily rundown of campaign events, compiled by Katie Rooney. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is keeping it local today, delivering his postponed foreign policy speech from last week to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs at the Fairmont Chicago Hotel at 11 a.m. This isn’t the first time Obama’s made this speech to [...]