Earlier this week, the White House announced its support of a two-step compromise approach toward repealing the military's Don't Ask Don't Tell policy toward openly gay servicemen and women. The issue will likely come to vote before the House and Senate yet this week. more ›

Over the weekend South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, discussing the Christmas Eve health care reform deal, told CNN that President Obama's campaign slogan has become empty, replaced by the sleaze we locals call politics. “You know, change you can believe in,” Graham said on CNN's State of the Union, “after this health care bill debacle, [that] has now becoming an empty slogan. And it's really been replaced by seedy Chicago politics, when you think about it, backroom deals that amount to bribes.” It echoed accusations made by Sen. John McCain last week on the morning of the bill's passage, who called it "an exercise in sleazy Chicago-style sausage making." more ›

The now-former Senator from Illinois continues to dominate the news around here (though we'll pass on his gym updates, Trib). more ›