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Since my piece on the intensifying battle over preventive detention was published, Ken Gude from the Center for American Progress wrote to point out an

<p>Our amazing reporter Holly Yeager told me that I had better check out Dick Cheney’s CPAC speech today, and she didn’t disappoint. Armed with Holly’s

I don’t know if former Vice President Dick Cheney just misses being in the spotlight, or if he actually believes the stuff he spews on television these days,

To the dismay of many liberal lawmakers, the Senate Finance Committee famously excluded a public option from its health reform bill, instead proposing the

Treasury and the FDIC put together a plan to offer as many as 3 million homeowners lower loan payments for at least five years. Homeowners, at the center of the economic crisis, may get their turn at a helping hand from government. But can they get the help they really need?

Jason Pye reports that Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) will schedule an October committee vote on HR 1207, the audit the Federal Reserve bill introduced by Rep.

Salon notes today that President Bush could decide to pardon himself, his cabinet and anyone else in his administration who may have committed war crimes by

In the unemployed netroots this week, rumors abounded that Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) might be planning legislation for the exhaustees or the 99ers -- those

News Corp., the parent company of Fox News, gave a cool $1 million to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce this summer, according to Politico’s Ben Smith. When earlier

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’Birther’ lawsuits have been immediately dismissed on standing, rather than facts, stirring a conspiracy that can never be disproved by its faithful believers.

The national anti-abortion rights group Personhood USA, whose main efforts are to help states pass so-called “personhood” constitutional amendments, has

The Associated Press is reporting that Samantha Power will get a job on the National Security Council staff. (That’s via Laura Rozen and Matthew Yglesias.) It’s

The New York Times and CoreLogic examined the data, and found that the rich are more likely to purposefully default on their mortgages -- to strategically

Though Sonia Sotomayor has strong support from Democrats, there’s been some concern that the National Rifle Association, which has opposed Sotomayor and

An image from Obozo’s America (Pic via obozosamerica.com) A board game that was banned in the 1980s will be re-released as “Obozo’s America: Why Bother Working for a Living?” The game features insulting stereotypes about welfare recipients as well as a depiction of a “Marxist Clown… juggling Hope and Change balls.” The board game’s creator, Bob Johnson, says in a statement that the game “was forced off the retail market in the 1980s by government officials working with the NAACP, NOW, and other welfare ‘rights’ groups.” According to a press release announcing the rerelease of the game: “Obozo’s America” is essentially the same as “Public Assistance” with these new features: the “Welfare Promenade” is now “Obozo’s Welfare Promenade;” each of the 50 Welfare Benefit cards and each of the 50 Working Person’s Burden cards begins with “Obozo Says;” and, an image of Obozo the Marxist Clown, juggling Hope and Change balls, appears in each of the corners.

As Spencer noted, in one of his first acts as president, Barack Obama yesterday asked military prosecutors at Guantanamo Bay to suspend all military commission