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And though Specter promised not to be a rubber stamp for his new party, he has since shifted leftward into its mainstream. He went from opposing a government-run public option on health care to supporting one and from voting for the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996 to urging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pennsylvania Senate Race: Specter Under Fire | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

It doesn't help Specter's case that he had been vowing not to switch parties practically right up until the moment that he did. Only weeks before, he had argued that it was vital that he stand as a 41st Republican vote in the Senate: "If there's a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pennsylvania Senate Race: Specter Under Fire | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

There is not much news in Karl Rove's memoir, Courage and Consequence, which is something of a moral triumph for the author. Rove is nothing if not loyal, and these sorts of books tend to create a stir only when they betray the boss. A significant amount of dirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Karl Rove's Memoir: Act of Vengeance | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

The nugget that did make some news was Rove's admission that Bush could never have gotten congressional support for invading Iraq without the threat of weapons of mass destruction. Of course, Rove defends the decision to go to war. But his reason for doing so is laughably thin: everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Karl Rove's Memoir: Act of Vengeance | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

O'Rahilly hopes the museum will stir up pride in Irish folklore rather than provoke anger at the price tag. What he's created, after all, is not a conventional museum but an evocative sculptural installation based on themes from leprechaun mythology. In addition to the Fort Knox crock, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland's New Museum for Leprechauns | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

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