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The congressional Democrats leading the effort to protect consumers from overdraft fees said today that, despite Tuesday’s news that Bank of America and JP

After prodding from President Obama, House Democrats have reversed their earlier position that condoms should be part of a stimulating economic package. This

The conference committee to reconcile the House and Senate versions of financial regulatory reform is up and running, with conferees currently hashing proposals

Secretary Clinton’s distortions are typical of a politician, said Marc Sageman, a former CIA official and terrorism researcher, who distorts reality to muster support for a policy.

Is this it? some asked. The few dozen Tea Party activists who made it to upper Senate Park in Washington this morning were confused at the size of the

An uneasy mix of town hall meeting and self empowerment lecture, Michael Steele puzzled some members of the crowd at Howard University.

In the latest bit of brazen slander from the right, Republican Senators are trying to invent a scandal about Justice Department lawyers who -- horror --

Montana is a hotbed of contradiction, especially when it comes to medical marijuana. Voters overwhelmingly approved medical marijuana in 2004, but in 2011 the state legislature voted to dramatically restrict access to medical marijuana.

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Remember when Condoleezza Rice, perhaps the most disastrously inept national security adviser in history, snapped at a Stanford student that the United States

The Obama administration may have just failed the first big test of its promises to end unwarranted government secrecy. According to a decision issued

Looking for a one-stop shop for everything President George W. Bush did wrong in the security arena? The progressive National Security Network has you

The Weekly Standard’s intrepid John McCormack tried, with some success, to ask Dede Scozzafava some uncomfortable questions. He got the N.Y. special election

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made a push for Hispanic voters Tuesday by arguing Republicans are to blame for the Senate’s inability to move forward with

The stock-market crashes around the world are not symptoms of the disease but the cure. The disease is the excessive debt and leverage in the global financial system -- especially in the United States, Britain, Spain and Australia. The cure is the reduction of the level of debt.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida has begun beefing up its legal staff to possibly take on some of the more questionable bills passed during Florida’s recent legislative session. Among the pieces of legislation under scrutiny are three of the five anti-abortion rights measures passed this year . # Maria Kayanan, Associate Legal Director for the ACLU of Florida, tells The Florida Independent that the ACLU of Florida is still looking closely at all the legislation that could prove problematic

At her weekly press briefing this morning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal.) illustrated well how a political mind works in an election year. First, she

Last year, the Obama campaign promised to deliver a major speech on U.S.-Muslim relations in a Muslim capital during the president’s first year in office.

As the U.S. media scrutinize the Wall Street-Main Street implications of the financial crisis and the political effects of the bailout, some foreign journalists