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The mortgage crisis might have been at the root of the global economic meltdown, but housing legislation seems destined to be among the last things Congress

The American Petroleum Institute is taking issue with a crowd estimate included in a story I linked to yesterday that was published in our sister-publication,

Detainees U.S. Government 32 9 Below is a list of the Guantanamo habeas corpus cases in which the detainee won. Information compiled by Pro

Paul Volcker, former Fed chair and current Economic Recovery Advisory Board chair, says that it’s time for Goldman Sachs to make a choice: Either it’s a bank or

The Community Reinvestment Act has been a lightning rod for conservative criticism for years, but the scorn really took off when the housing market collapsed last year.

Speaking on Fox Business’ America’s Nightly Scorecard yesterday, Associated Industries of Florida CEO Barney Bishop lashed out at the Obama administration — arguing that overregulation, specifically on the part of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, is “killing” the economy. # As head of Associated Industries, Bishop has been highly critical of the EPA, specifically for proposing a set of numeric nutrient criteria to stave off nutrient pollution in Florida waterways. The criteria would likely help rid Florida of its fish kills and algal blooms (the result of phosphorus and nitrogen, often present in industry waste), but would also cost agriculture and utility groups millions.

More Gates-love. This is a post written by Dave Dilegge, editor of the invaluable counterinsurgency blog Small Wars Journal, the day after Obama’s election: We

Immigrant rights advocates can breathe a sign of relief: Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) announced this afternoon he will not leave Congress to run for Chicago

Wall Street sure does like the thought of Tim Geithner running the Treasury Dept. next year. (The Dow surged 494 points Friday as the news leaked, and 397

Alabama Congressman Parker Griffith’s Dec. 22 switch from the Democratic Party to the GOP hasn’t played out terribly well so far. And here’s another piece of

New York real estate mogul Donald Trump noted he was happy to be doing a telephone event with U.S.

Energy-saving measures are a win-win for the environment and for superintendents’ budgets.

On Tuesday, a speech by Hillary Clinton at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., took a turn for the ironic when, just as the Secretary of State

Man, Dan Benjamin, the State Department’s counterterrorism chief, sure picked an unlucky day to deliver a speech defending the Obama administration’s

The police union and the city of Flint have not been able to agree on a package of concessions and Mayor Dayne Walling is expected to ask city council to approve a request for state financial review which could result in installation of an Emergency Manager or a consent agreement that would allow the city to modify contracts. The city council is expected to consider the matter this week, AP reports

This QDR focuses on the wars we are actually fighting, not the wars we sometimes wished we were fighting, a Defense Department official said.

In an article in the new issue of Time, Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) is quoted saying that Marginal tax rates are the lowest they’ve been in generations, and

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