McCain oil plan relies on Middle East
Sen. John McCain's environmental plan discourages use of Canadian oil and drastically increases American reliance on oil from the Middle East and other potentially unfriendly places. Published June 20, 2008
Stephen Dinan
Articles by Stephen Dinan
Outcry building for more drilling
With President Bush's announcement Wednesday that he now supports oil exploration in the outer continental shelf, Republicans from top to bottom have embraced more drilling as the answer to rising gas prices and put Democrats on the spot to come up with their own solutions to record-high fuel costs that are enraging voters. Published June 19, 2008
Obama, McCain abandon energy stances
John McCain and Barack Obama are fleeing from previous energy policy stances, with the Republican embracing expanded drilling and the Democrat seeking to punish energy companies he once voted to reward. Published June 18, 2008
McCain vows to appoint women
Sen. John McCain on Saturday said he would take a hard line on dangerous Chinese exports, promised to appoint more women to his administration and heaped praise on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in a town-hall meeting aimed at attracting the former Democratic presidential hopeful's primary supporters. Published June 15, 2008
McCain fires back on troop sound bite
John McCain blasted Democrats for using a fragment of an interview to try to portray him as not caring about U.S. troops in Iraq. Published June 12, 2008
GOP 'shrinking,' Davis warns party
Virginia Rep. Thomas M. Davis III, a valued statesman for congressional Republicans, says the GOP has failed to innovate and drive new ideas under President Bush, and they are now conceding much of the country to Democrats even as they tear up their own "big tent" governing coalition. Published June 11, 2008
A field of also-rans
Let the preening begin. Published June 10, 2008
DeLay: Long rebuilding process for GOP
Two years after he resigned from the House, former Republican leader Tom DeLay says conservatives haven't bottomed out from their 2006 election losses and it will take years before the Republican Party can compete. Published June 9, 2008
Tom DeLay's wife plans to vote against McCain
Tom DeLay will vote for John McCain but the former House Republican leader said his wife, Christine, is planning to vote for Libertarian presidential nominee Bob Barr. Published June 8, 2008
Barr chiseling into McCain voter base
Bob Barr's Libertarian presidential campaign is poised to play a serious role in this year's elections, with early polls showing him taking away enough votes from Sen. John McCain to give Democrats a chance to win states that should be safely Republican. Published June 4, 2008
McCain assails Obama's record on change
Sen. John McCain kicked off his general election campaign Tuesday night with a message seemingly ripped from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's political playbook and in a location - just outside New Orleans - that highlights the biggest domestic failure of President Bush's tenure. Published June 4, 2008
McCain urges world to divest in Tehran
Making a pitch for pro-Israel voters, Senator John McCain on Monday called for a worldwide campaign to force businesses and nations to divest from Iran and ridiculed his potential Democratic presidential opponent for being willing to negotiate personally with Iranian leaders. Published June 3, 2008
Lobbyists despised but not ridiculed
Lawyer jokes are legion, car salesmen are lampooned routinely, but the occupation the country despises most - it's been measured by Gallup and, yes, lobbyists rank dead last - doesn't even merit ridicule. Published June 3, 2008
Most Americans see $5 a gallon gasoline
More than 70 percent of Americans say they expect gasoline prices to top $5 a gallon by the end of the summer, and a majority say they are driving less because of higher fuel costs, according to a Fox 5/The Washington Times/Rasmussen Reports survey. Published May 27, 2008
McCain to join Bush in raising campaign funds
President Bush will campaign next week with Sen. John McCain, lending his considerable fundraising prowess but also potentially extending his cloud of low approval ratings to the man who is succeeding him as leader of the Republican Party. Published May 24, 2008
McCain rejects pastors' endorsements
Senator John McCain yesterday renounced the endorsements of two influential televangelists - John Hagee and Rod Parsley - who both had made inflammatory statements that liberals have been using to tar McCain. Published May 23, 2008
House forced to revote farm bill
Hours after voting to approve just the second veto override of President Bush's tenure on the massive farm bill, a colossal blunder means the House will have to have a do-over and repass the entire bill anew. Published May 22, 2008
Thunder rolls as bikers rally for war dead; estimated 250,000 participate
It's become as much a part of Memorial Day in Washington, D.C., as backyard barbecues and Frisbees on the Mall: Thousands of motorcycles descend on the city to commemorate fallen soldiers and to call for the return of missing Vietnam-era prisoners of war. Published May 26, 1997
