Someone at the Justice Department had a busy Christmas Eve, and was probably having a big drink after the White House had to do an about face on a grant of clemency issued by President Bush this week.

The vote counting continues this week in Minnesota, where Democrat Al Franken now leads incumbent GOP Sen. Norm Coleman by 251 votes.

You have to hand it to both parties these days, they are coming up with a myriad of ways for you to express your political sentiments, even when there's no election in sight.

My email inbox is still smoldering from my blogs the last two days on the Conspiracy Theory that Barack Obama is not a US citizen. So, let's do it again.

It was so much fun to read all the comments on my blog from yesterday about the Obama Citizenship Conspiracy. So I thought I'd take another shot at it today to see what we can stir up.

Give it up for the ladies at Code Pink, the women's anti-Iraq war group. They have a good imagination, and today they'll put it to use again in Washington, D.C.

For the third time this month, the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit that sought to stay the results of the November elections because of concerns over Barack Obama's citizenship.

At first, I was going to write a blog entry about the usual deception that the White House goes through when President Bush secretly flies to visit Iraq. But then it morphed into something else.

Back in the 1990's, Sen. Bob Graham of Florida proposed that Disney be hired to revamp the way that tours of the U.S. Capitol were given to the public. That went nowhere, but we're still fighting over how best to do it.

Instead of approving a House passed plan to help General Motors and Chrysler avoid running out of money, Senators worked late into the night on a different plan to aid US automakers. But in the end, that effort failed.

For the second straight day, hearings in the Congress on the economy and the Wall Street bailout were overshadowed by other news events, but that didn't make them less interesting.

It sort of got lost in all the attention on the Governor of Illinois yesterday, but Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho has lost another appeal to withdraw his guilty plea in his Minneapolis airport sex sting arrest.

While Democrats lost the Louisiana House seat of Rep. William Jefferson, they offset that with a win in Ohio in a race that had been in limbo since Election Night.

Even though many people had been calling for Rep. William Jefferson of Louisiana to be booted from the Congress for several years, it didn't look like that was going to happen anytime soon.

Two weeks after their first try to convince Congress of the need for billions in emergency aid, the chief executives of the Big Three automakers are back to try again, this time asking for $34 billion from Uncle Sam.

The Obama camp is still sending out fundraising emails just about every day, and they are getting pretty darn creative in their appeals. The latest is for a Holiday Mug. That's right. The Obama Mug.

Barack Obama's transition team has set up a new web site that will tell you exactly who has contributed money to pay for the work needed to get an Obama Administration up and running, allowing to you to see if someone you know has sent in some cash.

While President Elect Barack Obama's choices for economic leadership posts in his administration are certainly important, one cannot assume that someone his time in office will be devoid of national security struggles.