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The bankruptcy experts over at creditslips.org, while careful to shy away from actually going down that road, nonetheless picked apart the comments on

It’s one of the year’s slower news days, a perfect time for this rap from Hi Caliber. The best line, in my opinion: The population of the march was over a

The Associated Press reports that two additional nonprofits that support conservative causes -- Americans for Job Security and The 60 Plus Association -- have

Sen. George LeMieux (R-Fla.) decried as wrong a New Yorker story that says the senator would have supported a cap-and-trade bill, but didn’t want to

Here’s an interesting tidbit from The Washington Post’s story today on whether BP can rebrand itself following the massive oil spill in the Gulf: apparently

The Obama administration unveiled today a report that says the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s $100 billion investment in innovation will lead to a

The Senate Armed Services Committee right now is in a brief recess, but the likelihood of getting information out of two invited witnesses formerly employed by

In a reversal vote Thursday, the U.S. Senate voted to nix ethanol subsidies, much to the dismay of federal lawmakers who advocate for farmers and ethanol producers.

With Republicans slated to vote next Tuesday on Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-S.C.) proposal to end the practice of members requesting earmarks in the Senate, Mark

People with recently-acquired disabilities have been swimming through an endless sea of red tape to get the U.S. Department of Education to forgive their

This weekend’s news that inmates at the part of the prison at the U.S. Air Base in Bagram, Afghanistan, run by Special Operations forces had suffered abuse

What do the Gulf oil spill and MTV’s Jersey Shore have in common? Well, nothing. Except this: A recent survey found that BP Spillcam, the underwater camera

The commission Defense Secretary Robert Gates appointed to investigate how the Army failed to notice the radicalization of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged

As Allison noted earlier, Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson finally feels it’s time for more transparency on Wall Street, especially if unregulated mortgage

Does a House bill about legal civil procedures provide a way to restore the protection of civil rights in America, or is it an unwarranted gift to trial lawyers

Slate’s David Weigel points to an explanation of why measures that would prioritize spending to keep America from missing payments on its debt (such as one proposed by Central Florida Rep.

Pat Robertson’s American Center for Law and Justice recently provided legal defense for a public bus driver who was fired for refusing to take a woman to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas back in January 2010. According to the lawsuit, he was “ concerned that he might be transporting a client to undergo an abortion.” # Edwin Graning, a bus driver and ordained Christian minister in Austin, has been awarded $21,000 from the Capital Area Rural Transportation System after being fired for refusing to do his job. The Center for Law and Justice has called the settlement “ a win for religious accommodation .” # The woman Graning was hired to transport did not mention she was having an abortion

The group that brought America Undercover at Planned Parenthood, a shaky, 11-minute video shot clandestinely by undercover anti-abortion-rights activists, is

When I was at the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot I met Carl Swensson, an activist from Georgia who was hustling to get people from all 50 states to form citizen

In 2007, Gen. David Petraeus, then the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, testified to Congress about how he envisioned the war ending. It turned out that he had

Guess that historic first vote on single-payer health coverage won’t happen this year after all. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today withdrew his

U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle this morning denied the government’s attempt to further delay the hearing of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammed Jawad and, as