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Seven major civil rights and open government organizations today sent a letter to leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees urging them to pass

Via Ezra Klein, Third Way has a great proposal (PDF) for an itemized receipt to go along with each taxpayers’ return: Third Way writes, An electorate

The Project on Government Oversight today sent a stark warning to Congress: Don’t let the commercials paid for by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority

It’s eerie and uncomfortable and inappropriate that there isn’t much notice that six years ago today, the United States invaded Iraq. Maybe that’s natural now

Yesterday evening, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) withdrew his request for a cloture vote to end debate on the pending jobs bill, which continues

While the coal industry lobby in Washington seeks to rebrand its product as “clean,” and the fate of climate change legislation in Congress remains

The old Florida capitol (Pic by Diligent Terrier, via Wikimedia Commons) Among the long list of federal health grants the state has shunned in past year was a small award that would have “reduced the burden of cancer.” A spokesperson for the Florida Department of Health tells The Florida Independent that budget authority was denied for a competitive grant “awarded to Florida beginning October 2010 for $175,000 yearly.” The DP10-1017 “Demonstrating the Capacity of Comprehensive Cancer Control Programs to Implement Policy and Environmental Cancer Control Interventions” grant was a “five-year grant built on strengths of existing statewide Cancer Control and Research Advisory Council (C-CRAB) working with four regional cancer collaboratives to reduce the burden of cancer,” according to the Department of Health. The grant did not require any contributions from the state. The grant was just one of many that has been rejected by the state.

Read this sentence and tell me some dirty hippie didn’t write it: Where possible, what the military calls kinetic operations should be subordinated to measures

The Bell Curve and In Our Hands author and AEI scholar writes at length in National Review about the departure of David Frum from AEI. The argument: Frum

Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.), the chairman of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, just released this statement blasting recent Republican accusations

File this in the things-you-knew-were-true-but-wanted-confirmed file: House Republicans want former Vice President Dick Cheney to stop snarling his way into the

If the banks have to be regulated, they’re going to charge you more fees. And, if history is any guide, they’ll charge you those fees even if they aren’t.

<p>Here’s an interesting detail from The New Republic that helps explain why the Times went with the McCain story when it did. As

Today I wrote about the possible Stevens effect -- voters tell pollsters they’d never vote for a convicted felon and then turn around and do so in the voting

This weekend, we’ve seen busloads of protesters pulling up to the posh homes of AIG executives in Fairfield, Conn. -- even as the realization creeps in that

Only 22 percent of state legislative candidates had a monetarily competitive race in the 2007-2008 cycle, according to a study released today by the National

Via Newswire, a study released today shows that immigration laws are not targeting the most dangerous illegal immigrants. The study, conducted by the law

Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), questioning Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor about her role in the case of Ricci v. deStefano, this morning repeated the

Today is the 20th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill which left 11 million gallons of black petroleum deposited on a pristine Alaska coastline. The Daily

Today, April 30, is the last day for the Obama administration’s tax-credit programs for homebuyers. Purchasers need to have signed a binding agreement by the

All credit is due to The Wall Street Journal’s Siobhan Gorman, who provides the most thorough account so far of what the significant actions were that CIA

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