Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has taken an early lead in the race to succeed the recently-deceased Ted Kennedy in the US Senate, where Kennedy sat for more than four decades. Coakley is followed by two Democratic challengers Reps. Stephen Lynch and Ed Markey. more...

In a bizarre bit of political news, former Rep. Mark Foley, the disgraced Republican from Florida who incited furor across the nation when he admitted to sending sexually-charged emails to underage male Congressional pages, has been given his very own radio show to talk about issues facing conservative America. more...

In a mov eto quell accusaions of "indoctrination" from opponents, the full text of President Obama's much-discussed speech to schoolchildren nationwide has been released early. He'll deliver his remarks at 12 P.M. ET. Thousands of schools across the country are expected to tune in. more...

The slide that has brought us to where we are now took nearly 8 years to create. George W. Bush inherited a massive budget surplus and a booming economy. In 2004, 169 Ivy League economists (including three Nobel laureates and the majority of the faculty at Harvard, where Bush earned his MBA) sent an open letter to the president warning of the fiscal turmoil to come if he coninued to operate as he did. Bush ignored it. more...

Van Jones, the "green jobs czar" and West Wing advisor to President Barack Obama, has resigned his post following what he qualified as a "vicious smear campaign" against him by opponents on the right. Jones has come under fire for a series of statements, including some in which he called Republicans "a**holes," making comments about the racial issues surrounding the Columbine massacre, and signing a controversial 2004 petition. more...