The easy impulse today would be to shake our heads in wonderment, yet again, at the antics of the tea-party Senate candidates – in Alaska, Joe Miller’s goons putting a working journalist in handcuffs; ...

Jim Antle addresses an important point regarding responses to Jack Conway’s bizarre “Aqua Buddha” ad: Zengerle’s TNR colleague Jonathan Chait opined that “Rand Paul harbors a private contempt for ...

The 5th Century BCE: Siddhartha, the Gautama Buddha, walks the earth. The 1980s: Rand Paul goes to college and joins a prank-happy organization called the NoZe. August 9, 2010: Jason Zengerle breaks ...

Politico reportsthat 'at least one of Jack Conway's advisers is having second thoughts about the now infamous 'Aqua Buddha' advertisement, which some predict sealed the Democrat's defeat in the ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Usually, if a politician is accused of something “crazy” and unfounded say, tying someone up, ...

Down in the polls and running out of time in the Kentucky Senate race, Democrats are broadening their attack over the alleged “Aqua Buddha” prank from Republican Rand Paul’s college days, saying it ...

Democratic candidate Jack Conway looked like he was gaining ground on Republican Rand Paul in the Kentucky senate race, but then he launched a controversial ad attacking Paul for being disrespectful ...

It was, to be sure, a risky strategy for a Democratic Senate candidate in the South: run a sorta-psychedelic television ad depicting your Tea-Party anointed opponent as a groovy turtleneck and ...

The Republican challenger to Attorney General Jack Conway tried to deflect criticism of his record as a county attorney by reminding Kentuckians on Thursday of an infamous attack ad aired by the ...

Rand Paul, son of our own Ron Paul and — hard as it may be to believe — a serious contender to become the U.S. Senator from Kentucky — (well, maybe the “Kentucky” part is not that hard to believe) is ...