While the running mate with Dwight D. Eisenhower in the early 1950s, Richard Nixon was faced with public scrutiny regarding campaign funds used for personal expenses as well as controversy over gifts given to him by donors. The press and the public questioned whether he would do favors for those who donated said gifts. Nixon [...]

“I did not have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky..” With that now infamous quote from President Bill Clinton, so began one of the highest profile sex scandals in U.S. presidential history. The Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair started in 1995, after Lewinsky was hired to work as a White House intern during Clinton’s first term. [...]

By amarkow Dignity has been returned to politics, and it has arrived from the heart of cordiality – the South.  Jenny Sanford has walked out on her philandering husband, Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina.  Mrs. Sanford’s departure from the governor’s mansion in Columbia, SC, was a very public moment viewable in video clipss on [...]

The GOP would love nothing more than to see Nancy Pelosi disappear. Yet Nancy Pelosi’s 2010 reelection chances still live although she’s killing President Obama’s efforts to raise the ethical standards in Washington. She’s openly defied America’s former and current Presidents and brazenly demonstrates she’ll fight to keep earmarks alive regardless of President Obama’s desire to banish them. Too many overlook or dismiss her actions. Remember, Nancy Pelosi’s the first House Speaker to fly to the Middle East for her own version of Peace Talks while failing to mention it to then President G.W. Bush and yet she STILL has chances of reelection.

Fact: 18 percent of Americans believe the Sun revolves around the Earth. Fact: 10 percent of Americans believe that Obama was born in Kenya. Right-wing groups have been touting that President Barack Obama was born in Kenya rather than Hawaii. Despite the fact that the President released a copy of his Hawaiian birth certificate, right-wingers [...]

With the Jack Abramoff scandal finally behind the Beltway, Saxby Chambliss wants the people of Georgia to forget that he took the former lobbyist’s money or at least that he donated it to the Georgia National Guard Family Support Foundation. Chambliss donated the $1,000 in a rush dumping of the Abramoff money. While he was [...]

With the onslaught of every new politician into the political arena we see what seems like the same promise over and over, “I’m not like the other guys.” Unfortunately with the passage of time and intensified scrutiny there are few to none that seem to be able to play the game of politics without at [...]