Joe Wilson

by Mark Silva "You lie,'' Republican Rep. Joe Wilson called out in the middle of President Barack Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress. "That's not true,'' Obama replied from the dais. Wilson later apologized for a "lack of......

by Mark Silva and updated Joe the congressman had a big night. But Rep. Joe Wilson may be having a bad day. The official House Web-site of the South Carolina Republican who shouted out to the president during last night's......

by Mark Silva There were more Democrats than Republicans watching the president's televised speech to Congress on health care last night, and they generally liked what they heard and saw - that's the first take from a fast, independent survey......

by Richard Simon The Democratic-controlled House today voted to admonish Republican Rep. Joe Wilson for heckling President Barack Obama during his health-care address to Congress last week, heightening partisan tensions in the Capitol. Although the...

by Peter Nicholas As the nation's first black president strives to keep the public focused on healthcare, he is facing an unwanted detour into race. That's probably the last thing Barack Obama wants to discuss as he presses for a......

by Mark Silva and updated Rep. Joe Wilson, the Republican congressman from South Carolina who called President Barack Obama a liar in public - and later apologized to the White Houseprivately - is turning to his supporters for backing as......

by Mark Silva Rep. Joe Wilson may have stood up to the president, when he called President Barack Obama a liar during the president's address to Congress last week, but he didn't have much public support for doing so. More......

by Mark Silva The House this afternoon is likely to take up that vote of censure in the case of Rep. Joe Wilson, who yelled at President Obama during a presidential address to Congress. The congressman didn't just yell. He......

by Mark Siva We couldn't help but notice tens of thousands of protesters filling the streets of Washington today for a "TEA Party,'' a nationally coordinated protest against taxes. "Joe Wilson was right,'' read the placard of one protester, invoking......

by Peter Nicholas and Josh Drobnyk President Obama wades into an intramural fight among Democrats today by attending a high-dollar fundraising dinner for Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), demonstrating an unusual measure of personal commitment in a primary...

by Mark Silva Garrison Keillor, who has suffered a brush with mortality, has a prescription for a nation in need of the sort of care that he got: Reform, with "common humanity.'' The comic writer, amateur singer and impresario of......

by Mark Silva Joe Wilson is "a great guy.'' His wife says so. And apparently all the campaign money that the South Carolina Republican has raised since shouting out, "You lie,'' at the president last week has put some video......