'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America

Determined not to lose another friendly district because of a sex scandal, Democrats and their allies have pumped more than $1 million into an Oregon special election race that has turned into a vicious exchange of attacks over the airwaves.

Oregon was first in the nation to have all residents vote by mail. Now it's pioneering another idea: vote by iPad.
Oregon was first in the nation to have all residents vote by mail. Now it's pioneering another idea: vote by iPad.
Oregon was first in the nation to have all residents vote by mail. Now it's pioneering another idea: vote by iPad.

It's time for the Oregon representative best known for sending around bizarre photos of himself in a tiger costume to go. Rep. David Wu promised to resign from Congress after accusations emerged that he sexually assaulted a teenager. He ought not to collect another dime from taxpayers.
In a cramped 8-by-10 federal prison cell in Butner, N.C., Bernie Madoff is laughing.

Democratic Rep. David Wu has said he is stepping down from the House in the wake of an accusation he had an unwanted sexual encounter with an 18-year-old woman.

Rep. David Wu, facing an accusation of an unwanted sexual encounter with an 18-year-old woman and a request for an investigation by the House Ethics Committee, will not seek re-election next year and was pondering whether he would complete his term, a spokesman for the Oregon Democrat said Monday.
GOP presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty says President Obama is showing no courage in the debt showdown.

The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling for the release of jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo and congratulating him on winning this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
Mr. Wu said the legislation was "abhorrent to me and the values that I hold. It makes deep cuts, cuts in programs that I care about: in science and technology, in help for the poorest among us."
He later claimed he was able to serve his term with mental health treatment.