Sometimes you look at a truly successful person and think: I don’t know how she does it. Pretty much always, you look at comedian Sacha Baron Cohen and think: Seriously, how does he do it? An investigation by Politico on Wednesday revealed some of the means of Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest, greatest cross between art…
Former Illinois Congressman, current radio host, and relentless Tea Partier Joe Walsh posted his harrowing story of deception and false pretense on Twitter late Tuesday night. The victim: Walsh, the charming fellow behind controversies like calling Stevie Wonder “another ungrateful black multi-millionaire” for taking a knee during a national anthem. The nationally syndicated Walsh is…
Around the 1992 election, like the political junkie-in-training I was, I walked around my grade-school wearing campaign buttons featuring the dynamic duo of Jewish female California Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, plus new First Lady Hillary Clinton. It was the Year of the Woman, a historic moment for women in politics — and a…
Associated Press calls Tammy Baldwin (D) the winner over former Gov. Tommy Thompson (R) to become the first openly gay member of the Senate. The other Tammy, Iraq War vet Tammy Duckworth (D), beats incumbent GOP Rep. Joe “You Lie” Walsh in Illinois.
There are few Jews living in Illinois’s 8th Congressional District. But Israel and the proposed two-state solution to its conflict with the Palestinians are front and center in the heated congressional race there. To the surprise of many, the race between incumbent Republican Joe Walsh and Democrat Tammy Duckworth has become a battleground for supporters…
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