For several hours on Wednesday, the re-election campaign web site of D.C. Shadow Sen. Paul Strauss, paulstrauss.org, displayed the message, pictured at right, that it had been "taken down due to a lack of payment." We asked Strauss about it, and by the time he got back to us, the message had been removed. Several hours later, a new splash page, this time with the message "Site under construction," appeared. Then late last night, the web site was restored to its original state. more ›