The Washington Post today begins a four-part series on the extraordinary and unprecedented role that Dick Cheney has played as Vice President. There is plenty of new information in the first installment by Barton Gellman and Jo Becker. One big revelation is the way in which Cheney engineered the presidential order that denied terrorism suspects [...]

There are few people in Washington who better understand the inner machinations of government than Scott Lilly, the former staff director of the House Appropriations Committee (among many posts he has held on Capitol Hill) and now a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. Today, he writes about the back story behind the [...]

Jeff “Call Me Trooper” Garrity has taken a leave of absence, the campaign has confirmed, pending the resolution of the Massachusetts and New Hampshire complaints.

Obama’s stab at ethics reform in the Senate had its rough spots, but today he announced a whole suite of initiatives aimed at government reform in the executive branch (including, I’m told, the Office of the Vice President). More important: You can now get Obama ringtones! Pretty pretty shiny! Sleep now byebye.

Or at least the “cop” part… State Police are investigating one of Mitt Romney’s top campaign aides for allegedly impersonating a trooper by calling a Wilmington company and threatening to cite the driver of a company van for erratic driving, according to two law enforcement sources familiar with the probe. Jay Garrity, who is director [...]

Over at the New Republic, “Sick” author Jonathan Cohn takes a look at Michael Moore’s similarly titled new movie on the same subject, and finds it wrong on a lot of little things, but right on the big one. By the way, Cohn’s own book, which is a lively read that provides both a history [...]

This would be totally funny if it weren’t, you know, happening: Vice President Dick Cheney has asserted his office is not a part of the executive branch of the U.S. government, and therefore not bound by a presidential order governing the protection of classified information by government agencies. Also, he is not bound by the [...]

Hey, remember that exciting YouTube/Google/CNN debate? It’s happening soon! Participatory democracy! The internets! It’s gonna be HUGE!!! Or, uhm, not. 10 Zen Monkeys has the scoop on the five worst submissions… of 120: Interestingly, the question comes from England, and YouTube also received questions from Spain, Canada, Australia, and Malaysia. We’re guessing these questioners aren’t [...]

Elizabeth Edwards writes that the whole “Sisters Before Misters” controversy yesterday is the result of her pre-teen’s playfulness: “It was Emma Claire, who pointed to a Hillary pin slyly and then, smiling pointed to her father. A nine-year [old] sense of humor — you would have thought Matt Drudge would have been able to pick [...]