Dan Burton

  • The real quid pro quo in Washington

    While Congress holds hearings on the Marc Rich pardon case, it should also take a look at its own payoff to credit card giants in passing the bankruptcy bill.
  • Dan Burton's glass house

    The man who made himself President Clinton's chief inquisitor shouldn't throw stones.
  • Isn't it rich?

    Finally, Dan Burton gets a Clinton scandal that Democrats can't quite explain away, in the last-minute pardon of Marc Rich.
  • A recipe for disaster

    While nobody knows the origin of autism, many researchers worry that linking it to childhood vaccines could be a very dangerous theory.
  • Secrets and lies

    Is the astonishing rise in autism a medical mystery or a pharmaceutical shame?
  • Swallowing ephedra

    The wildly popular herbal diet aid can be dangerous for some people. But don't expect the FDA to crack down.
  • Inoculated into oblivion

    When families hit the Capitol last week, they demanded answers about the source of their children's autism.
  • Political child abuse

    Miami's Cuban-American community is playing out the trauma of its exile by exploiting 6-year-old Elián González.
  • Indiana Dan vs. Dr. Evil

    The congressman trying to prevent Elian Gonzalez's return to Cuba, Rep. Dan Burton, gets more campaign funding from Florida's Cuban exile community than from his own folks back home in Hoosierland.
  • Letters to the Editor

    Are vaccines killing our kids? Plus: "Hannibal" is just too gory; new economy, same old ethics.
  • Declaring war on undeclared war

    A lawsuit could force President Clinton to get Congress' OK on Kosovo.
  • Witness for the prosecution?

    Dick Morris, conspiracy theorist, could find a way to hurt the president again.
  • Portrait of a political "pit bull"

    Rep. Dan Burton, the man who called the president a "scumbag," has a few questions to answer about his own history of womanizing and alleged campaign finance irregularities.
  • Portrait of a political "pit bull"

    Rep. Dan Burton, the man who called the president a "scumbag," has a few questions to answer about his own history of womanizing and alleged campaign finance irregularities.
  • What goes around, comes around

    The self-righteous bullies on Capitol Hill like to conduct sexual inquisitions as long as no one fights back.
  • Lives of the Republicans, Part Two

  • Secret lives of the Republicans, Part One

    How Dan Burton outed himself in a preemptive strike against an upcoming Vanity Fair expose.
  • "A Starr cannot be extinguished"

    In the year 2041, the grandson of Kenneth Starr writes a letter to his father giving a progress report of his investigation into 93-year-old Hillary Rodham Clinton-Hubbell.
  • A GOP attack dog bites the dust

    It took the Hubbell tapes disaster to make Dan "Scumbag" Burton part with Clinton-hating ideologue David Bossie.
  • "It's time to speak out"

    Re: the Clinton scandals, confidential GOP memo urges Republicans to go on the attack.
  • Newsreal: Bring back J. Edgar Hoover

    The White House hates FBI Director Louis Freeh and wants him to resign. The Republicans love Freeh because he wants an independent counsel to investigate fund-raising practices by President Clinton and Vice President Gore.

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