Maureen Dowd | New York Times

Maureen Dowd, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, was accused of plagiarism yesterday in her Sunday column.

Dowd, who wrote the book “Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide” (Putnam, 2005),  is accused of lifting, almost verbatim,…

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Pat Quinn walked into our offices 10 days ago with a stack of business cards reading “Pat Quinn, Lieutenant Governor, State of Illinois.” Before he handed each card over, he used a pen to scratch out “Lieutenant.”

He then launched into…

Celebrity news website TMZ released this picture of a very pregnant Nadya Suleman, who gave birth to octuplets last month in California.

Last month, 33-year-old Nadya Suleman gave birth to octuplets in a California hospital. The eight babies — and their…

Time to downsize campaign cash.

Wafting over the impeachment and removal from office last week of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was the faint odor of hypocrisy. With his brazen and profane greed, the now-former governor may have exposed Illinois’ culture of…

“As I’ve spent time basking in the sun on the beach at Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic, where I have a little house facing a big ocean, I’ve thought of telling God not to worry about me if it…

Obama seeks support from Hillary Clinton’s donors, gets the cold shoulder (via TPM media).

And  he takes heat from the netroots about his support of telecom immunity (via Huffington Post).

It doesn’t get much funnier: Karl Rove is spearheading an effort to label Obama…

Medical students occupy the lowest level in the health care hierarchy. They have to be supervised when they treat patients, they can’t write prescriptions and sometimes they don’t even know their way around the hospital where they’re learning to become…