Larry Craig

Liability, guns and the law

2013-02-05 00:00:00

Last summer, David Garcia was sentenced to life in prison for the 2003 murder of rookie Burbank Police Officer Matthew Pavelka. Pavelka and another officer, Gregory Campbell, had approached two men sitting in a car without a license plate in an area...

Republicans refuse to confirm leader for ATF despite its troubles

2011-09-06 20:27:00

Congressional Republicans have been upset at the management at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which authorized a botched sting operation near the Mexican border that put guns in the hands of drug criminals. But Republican...

Sen. John Ensign had said resigning 'would be admitting guilt'

2011-04-22 16:36:31

Someone's dumping a Charlie Crist portrait on eBay, but Florida Republican Party says, Not us

2010-05-01 21:35:20

Brand X Files: 'Harry Potter' pedophile case. Obama jabs GOP. Naomi Campbell's 'blood diamond' link.

2010-06-03 16:36:38

Thanks for the memories, Arlen

2010-05-19 16:34:39

Bring on the bling: Making politicians wear their true colors

2010-01-27 16:34:00

Patt Morrison: Border Fence Is Borderline Insanity

2006-09-21 00:00:00

WHAT, no land mines? If the United States really means business with that fence along the Mexican border, why flinch at installing things that go blooey? If we're going to stop illegal immigrants by taking borderland hundreds of miles long and nearly...

Obama's gospel mistake

2007-10-31 00:00:00

Politics have provided gay Americans like myself with no end of schadenfreude in recent years, what with the antics of Mark Foley, Larry Craig and other I'm-not-gay Republicans. But last weekend, a competing Democratic farce debuted: Barack Obama's...

In a warming world, Ed Begley's cool

2007-10-05 00:00:00

Of all the horrific changes that global warming is causing, none is quite as bad as the fact that we have to stop making fun of Ed Begley Jr. It's like finding out that Larry Craig has been diagnosed with restless leg syndrome. So, knowing I had to do...

Sex, lies and editorials

2008-03-12 00:00:00

Everybody loves a good political sex scandal � the ritual apologies, the jokes, the schadenfreude, the self-righteousness (from everyone else, of course). But The Times editorial boards of old tended to stay out of the graphic, cheeky media hype, refusing...

Our (not so) private Idahos

2007-08-30 00:00:00

Gentle reader, by now you've probably read more than you ever nightmared you'd want to know about the latest Republican gay-sex scandal. The revelation that Idaho Sen. Larry Craig was caught allegedly trolling for sex in a Minnesota airport men's room...

Former U.S. Senator Larry Craig (R-Idaho) pleaded guilty to "lewd conduct" in a men's airport bathroom in 2007. "Good old Mr. Wide Stance," Maddow says. "I wish we had a special axis for pitiful." Creepiness factor? "Medium."

2011-06-07 17:25:08

Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in an airport restroom and was admonished by the Senate Ethics Committee. He resisted calls to resign, but did not seek reelection in 2008.

2011-06-07 17:07:14

, was arrested in 2007 in a Minneapolis airport men's room on a charge of homosexual lewd conduct. He insisted he was not gay and had never been gay, and then stated he would resign from the Senate, but eventually decided to finish the remainder of his term. In this photo from Sept.

2011-06-06 14:25:05