John Ashcroft

Likely FBI nominee James Comey seen as levelheaded

2013-05-30 18:57:00

WASHINGTON — Twenty years ago, James B. Comey was a young federal prosecutor in New York trying to put two Gambino brothers away for life. They were charged with murder, selling drugs, money laundering, racketeering — "the whole kitchen sink,"...

Obama to nominate Bush-era Justice Dept. official to head FBI

2013-05-29 21:26:00

WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to nominate James B. Comey, a former senior Justice Department official who famously challenged warrantless eavesdropping under President George W. Bush, to replace Robert S. Mueller III as director of the FBI,...

Obama to nominate James Comey to lead the FBI

2013-05-29 17:15:00

WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to nominate James B. Comey, a former senior Justice Department official who famously challenged a secret eavesdropping program during the George W. Bush administration, to replace Robert S. Mueller III as...

Sheila Krumholz -- she follows the money

2012-11-06 15:53:00

It was a California politico, Jesse Unruh, who nailed the relationship between dough and democracy: "Money is the mother's milk of politics." Where does it come from, and where does it go? Sheila Krumholz makes it her business to tell us. As executive...

Racial profiling provision of immigration bill scrutinized

2013-06-12 18:17:29

A coalition of civil liberties and immigrant-rights advocates led by Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland wants to strengthen a provision in the Senate's sweeping immigration bill that would prohibit law enforcement agencies from racial profiling. The 867-page,...

NSA surveillance defeats democracy

2013-06-13 00:00:00

"And so the charges of the hysterics are revealed for what they are: castles in the air. Built on misrepresentation. Supported by unfounded fear. Held aloft by hysteria. On this and every other tool provided in the Patriot Act, charges of abuse of power...

Tim Weiner: James Comey understands power of FBI and saying 'no'

2013-05-30 11:41:00

James Comey is the grandson of an Irish cop. But it's not the policeman in his DNA that makes him the right choice to run the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It's his deep understanding of the power of secret intelligence. Comey arrived as the No. 2...

How Obama can rescue his candidacy

2013-05-20 08:15:00

Here's the White House view of the current trilogy of so-called scandals: Republicans are trying to destroy President Barack Obama's second term by magnifying bureaucratic miscues and distorting policy realities. This isn't without some merit. On none...

NM abortion complaint highlights privacy concerns

2013-02-07 05:44:00

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A woman from New York came to New Mexico to terminate her pregnancy at one of the nation's four late-term abortion clinics after she found out the fetus she had been carrying for more than eight months had severe brain...

The scandal of loyalty

2013-01-14 09:07:00

WASHINGTON -- President Obama hasn't even begun his second term, yet already he has been ensnared by scandal. Republicans have uncovered a shocking level of wrongdoing in the Oval Office, and I'm afraid what they say is true: The president is brazenly...

Gov. Nixon's second term starts with icy ceremony (read his short speech here)

2013-01-14 15:49:00

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon's second term began with a chill.� The air was 24 degrees on Monday as the governor took his oath of office.� Earlier, he and the first lady rode in an inaugural parade to the Capitol, then watched as a...

Nothing unique in Akin's nonsense

2012-08-26 04:00:00

Rep. Todd Akin's fame — more accurately, his infamy — now reaches all the way to the Congo. There, Eve Ensler, the award-winning American author of “The Vagina Monologues” and herself a survivor of rape, wrote an open letter...

John Ashcroft, Bill & Gloria Gaither appear at Evangel University

2013-02-15 07:50:00