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The Greatest Filibusters
As Sen. Joe Lieberman threatens to filibuster the Senate health-care bill, The Daily Beast looks back on obstructionism's greatest hits. From presumed poisonings and Roquefort salad dressing recipes to public urination and the 15 hours devoted to saving a typewriter company, the strange and twisted history of the Senate filibuster.
The Republican, a leading Progressive of the era, spoke for 18 hours, setting a Senate record. He stood against a banking bill, which he found too ...
Meet the 'You Lie' Guy
South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst embarrassed the GOP on the president's big night. But, Samuel P. Jacobs reports, it wasn't out of character-and it could make him a star.
South Carolina's Original Sinners
Mark Sanford's affair looks relatively tame compared to earlier Palmetto State sex scandals, including Strom Thurmond's secret family and his death-row lover. Thurmond's biographer shares the juicy details.
Get to Know Obama's Czars
The bailout czar? The God czar? As President Obama appoints enough czars to impress a Russian nobleman, THE DAILY BEAST has the goods on who they are and how they'll steer policy.
















