Tag: Ensign

  • Those sex-lovin’ senators

    Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota has demonstrated this week why he is so irritating to the pundits on talk radio and other conservative fronts. The newbie senator introduced an amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill that would punish contractors if they “restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court.”

  • A short distance from sanity

    The death of Michael Jackson will obviously shift the media’s obsessive focus away from the extramarital exploits of Gov. Mark Sanford and his paramour from the pampas, but before we leave that topic entirely, let’s look at some analysis of what the Sanford and John Ensign scandals might mean for the Republican Party.