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<p>Hello, my name is Allison Silver. I’m the editor of <em>The Washington Independent</em>. I’ve been involved in analysis and commentary in

It goes to Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), who was asked on a conference call about reports that Smartronix.com will get an $18 million contract to rebuild

On Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission made a bombshell announcement: It is charging Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs with civil fraud for failing to

Sen. Charles Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) suggestion that the climate bill being drafted by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) might be introduced as

For all his talk about how he doesn’t care about opinion polls, former Vice President Dick Cheney is narcissistically incapable of criticizing President Obama

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Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty has spent the past few weeks trying to curry favor with a slew of conservative religious figures, some so extreme they’ve been labeled “hate groups” by the Southern Poverty Law Center. He’s gone public about his plan to reinstate of the military’s ban on openly gay and lesbian servicemembers if elected president and claimed that America was founded “under God.” While Pawlenty has always been a social conservative, he hasn’t worn it on his sleeve this prominently.

From The Hill: According to the Federal Election Commission, Lieberman’s 2006 reelection campaign and its treasurer, Lynn Fusco, made payments to

I’m hearing -- though the players have not yet responded to my questions -- that there’s some serious friction between one of the main organizations of the Tea

And we’re off. Here’s President Obama at the National Archives, talking in broad themes about what comes after Guantanamo Bay. Chris Matthews points out that

The appointment of Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.) is being heralded by progressives as a return to negotiated disarmament accords.

Remember the Center for a New American Security, the counterinsurgent-heavy defense think tank that used to be run by Michele Flournoy and Kurt Campbell before

Kevin Hassett, writing for Bloomberg, comes up with what he probably thinks is a clever column theme. Imagine that some hypothetical enemy state spent years

Sure, it’s probably too little, too late. But blownmortgage.com reports that insurers are finally saying no to Liar Loans, which are mortgages that allowed

Patience worn thin, gay activists are organizing a boycott of the DNC. National Review puts Krauthammer on a pedestal. Pro-choice Dems promise a

The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is in Kabul today and will travel on to Pakistan to discuss his hugely-and-needlessly-controversial $7.5

Obama: Limbaugh, Beck don’t represent most Americans. The U.S. should break up mega-banks and impose strict laws on financial institutions, says a top

In response to a question from Human Events about how then-Sen. Barack Obama campaigned against him and called him an amiable fellow without much of a resume,

One of the long-held beliefs about subprime mortgages is that they had a positive side, extending credit to non-traditional buyers and increasing minority

A new documentary on Gov. Sarah Palin looks to rally a GOP ready for a conservative’s-conservative to stick it to the mainstream media in 2012.

State Sen. Gary Siplin, D-Orlando (Pic by Minority Office, via flsenate.gov) In a letter to state legislators, the co-presidents of the Freedom From Religion Foundation warn policy-makers that a new school prayer bill is “patently unconstitutional.” The Foundation is a national nonprofit educational organization whose mission is to “protect the constitutional principle of separation between state and church,” the group explains in its letter. Last week, a state education committee amended Senate Bill 98

The Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform bill is now law. And a few unintended consequences of the enormously complex, very long bill are coming to light. The