Sept. 1, 1983 : Two members of Congress die on the same day. Rep. Larry McDonald (D-GA) is killed when the Soviets shoot down a Korean airliner; hours later, Sen. Henry Scoop Jackson (D-WA) dies of a heart attack. A Soviet fighter plane shoots down a Korean civilian airliner that kills 269 passengers. Among the Americans on the plane is Rep. Larry McDonald (D-GA), a fierce anti-Communist. Moscow insists that the plane veered over Sovi

After years of weaving around Kentucky’s political byways—you know, the ones named back-to-back after former governors—I finally made a right turn and ended up at the Fancy Farm picnic. Please excuse me for having missed 128 of them, but sometimes civic life can benefit from fresh eyes. Media coverage summarized the event as, “Democratic Senate candidates trade fire at Fancy Farm,” in keeping with journalists’ role to hype conflict, follow the money and sniff out (some would say help create) t

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Take this with a big grain of salt, if for no other reason than Rod Blagojevich has to remain circumspect about the very machinations he describes in his new memoir. The impeached and expelled former governor of Illinois uses the revelation that Rahm Emanuel wanted help in keeping his old House seat safe in order to argue that Patrick Fitzgerald got it all wrong in his indictment:Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says in a new book that White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel wanted his help