Call to Censure Bush Is Answered by a Mostly Empty Echo  —  WASHINGTON, MARCH 31 — The Senate Judiciary Committee opened a bitter if lopsided debate on Friday over whether Congress should censure President Bush for his domestic eavesdropping program.  —  Although few Senate Democrats …

Jill Carroll forced to make propaganda video as price of freedom  —  CAIRO - The night before journalist Jill Carroll's release, her captors said they had one final demand as the price of her freedom: She would have to make a video praising her captors and attacking the United States, according to Jim Carroll.

NOW and NAACP make fools of themselves defending wackjob Rep. McKinney's ridiculous racial complaint  —  Good God.  If you ever needed proof of how irrelevant the big-monied liberal advocacy groups have become, we got a lovely demonstration today when the NAACP and the National Organization …

'I Am Not Running Away'  —  Meet Benon Sevan, the man at the center of the Oil for Food scandal.  —  NICOSIA, Cyprus—"Medium or sweet?" asks Benon Sevan.  He is inquiring how much sugar I would like in the Turkish coffee he's boiling up for us on his kitchen stove, and I am torn between thanking …

Behind Unraveling Of DeLay's Team, A Jilted Fiancée  —  Breakup of Ex-Aides Shook  —  Group Tied to Abramoff;  —  The Prosecutors Move In  —  Ms. Miller's Tearful Apology  —  WASHINGTON — The engagement of Emily Miller and Michael Scanlon was supposed to mark the coming out of a new Washington power couple.

Cranky Franken's 'Today' Appearance: Tells Conservative Guest To "Screw You"  —  A very tired and very cranky Al Franken appeared on the March 31 edition of the Today show.  The segment, which aired at 7:12AM EST, saw Franken respond to a barb from fellow radio talk show host Michael Smerconish with this witty barb: "Screw you."

'Tactical Errors' Made In Iraq, Rice Concedes  —  BLACKBURN, England, March 31 — Greeted by antiwar protesters at almost every stop in a tour of a working-class region of England, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that the Bush administration has probably made thousands of …

New Poll: Americans Favor a Guest Worker Plan  —  79% say illegal immigrants should have the chance to work here, but most want tougher enforcement too  —  Americans polled by TIME magazine show strong support for a guest-worker program and a process for undocumented workers to become citizens …

The GOP's Stake In Checking The President  —  Russ Feingold is a U.S. senator from Wisconsin.  —  During the Watergate hearings, then-Senator Howard Baker, a Republican, showed tremendous courage, and a deep sense of Congress's duty to hold President Nixon accountable …

03.31.06 - Democrat Ethics Breakdown: News For The Week Of March 27th  —  03.31.06 - RNC Releases New Web Ad Entitled, "Censure?  Impeachment?"  —  In November 2000 Mark Kennedy defeated a four term incumbent to earn the honor for representing the sixth district of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Mommy wars — a false battle  —  IN HER MUCH-DISCUSSED new book, "Mommy Wars," Leslie Morgan Steiner likens the tensions between working mothers and stay-at-home mothers to "a catfight."  Personally, I think it's more like dueling roosters: a cockfight.  —  In a classic ethnographic essay on Bali …