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Lloyd Blankfein -- head of Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs, against which the SEC filed civil charges last week for defrauding clients in some mortgage-backed

When President Obama declared early in his presidency that he plans to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, that was hardly the end of the matter. Obama and

President Obama just announced that the General Services Administration will purchase 17,600 new fuel-efficient government vehicles by June 1, using funds from

President Barack Obama (Pic by The White House, via Flickr) A Twitter campaign launched by the ADAP Advocacy Association is calling on President Obama to end the AIDS Drug Assistance Program waiting lists. Brandon Macsata, CEO of the ADAP Advocacy Association, tells The Florida Independent that his organization “asked people to start at 7 a.m. today and continue through 7 p.m. tonight and to target the campaign toward President Obama and ask him to step up and begin to lead on this crisis.” “We feel that to this point he’s been pretty quiet,” Macsata says, “and when we’re approaching 10,000 people on the waiting list for the medication we know will keep them healthy productive members of their communities, it’s just unacceptable.” The AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (known as ADAP) provide medications for the treatment of HIV and AIDS for people who cannot afford to pay because they are unemployed, uninsured or underinsured.

The good news: Initial jobless benefit claims declined last week, to 453,000. Economists had expected jobless claims to come in at 455,000. The bad news: The

Andy Martin, the Chicago Internet powerhouse (his own words!) who started the unfounded rumor that Barack Obama was a secret Muslim and later pushed the

The New York Times reports that President Obama met with a group of Senate Democrats at the White House today to discuss energy legislation. No word from the

It’s been one year since then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey proposed that Congress pass legislation declaring a new, expanded war with al-Qaeda and the Taliban -- thereby granting the president the authority to detain indefinitely members of those groups anywhere in the world.

Van Jones’ rapid downfall is an educational moment for the wing of the conservative movement that has tried, without much success, to paint environmental activists as anti-capitalist radicals.

The National Iranian American Council publishes. this email, describing it as authored by an ordinary Tehrani. Dear friend, if you have any contacts within

The entire pleading of Connie Rhodes v. Barack Hussein Obama et al, the latest attempt by Orly Taitz to use a soldier as a dupe for an Obama citizenship

President Barack Obama promised that his inauguration would be different from those of previous presidents, but change doesn’t come easily when it requires shaking influence in Washington.

Charlie Crist gets almost as much Democratic support as the party’s likely nominee in a new Florida Senate poll. Convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff transfers

U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice gave a speech in Israel yesterday urging that peace demands more than lip service, an unsubtle dig at Prime Minister Benjamin

On the heels of U.S. Rep. Ron Paul’s second consecutive victory in the Conservative Political Action Conference’s presidential straw poll, Paul supporters are

I just called the American Enterprise Institute for a forthcoming TWI story about the importance of Nouri al-Maliki’s de facto endorsement of Barack Obama’s

It’s no news that many liberal critics of the Democrats’ stimulus plan are wondering why so much would go toward tax rebates and so little, relatively speaking,

Charles Homans delves into the history of Culture11, the witty, wide-ranging libertarian/conservative web magazine (full disclosure: I wrote for it) that

The national buzz on Iowa’s upcoming special election in Senate District 18 may be focused on the future of civil marriage, but you’d never know it from the candidate outreach to local residents. “Better jobs

Details about tomorrow’s Code Red rally against health care reform have already been leaking out -- Jon Voight promoted it as a way to fight back against the