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RealtyTrac reports that foreclosures reached their highest-ever level in March: ilings were reported on 367,056 properties in March, an increase of nearly 19

Brian Beutler continues to bird-dog the Obama is cutting spending meme that’s both untrue and useful for rolling back Defense Secretary Bob Gates’ reforms.

Most of the discussion of President-elect Barack Obama’s appointments announced Monday focused on whether Leon Panetta does or doesn’t have the experience

Consumer prices in the Western states, including New Mexico, rose 0.4 percent in September, and 3.5 percent in the past year.

Something I didn’t know but Brandon Friedman at VoteVets did: a staff sergeant leading an infantry squad in Afghanistan makes, with combat pay, about $44,500

Former George W. Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson is about the furthest thing from a bleeding-heart apologist for criminal behavior. But in his column in

It’s got to be this one from OurCountryDeservesBetter PAC. It cites Obama’s own doctor as an opponent of President Obama’s health care plan, even though Dr.

Jane Mayer has written a thorough and engaging piece about the Koch brothers for the latest issue of the New Yorker. While some have quipped that it falls

Adam Serwer has a must-read piece on the case against the New Black Panther Party, the thuggish fringe group whose members were detained on Election Day 2008

Florida resident, one-time presidential hopeful and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee will act as keynote speaker at an anti-abortion “Personhood” banquet in Jackson, Miss., on Sept.

Another Senate candidate is resisting the changing political calculus surrounding earmarks, in which candidates have begun shying away from touting the spending

Dennis Whitfield of the American Conservative Union has sent out a press release on today’s embarrassing Mike Allen story that alleges a pay-for-play proposal

Barry Ritholtz points to this chart of the Mortgage Bankers’ Association purchase index. It shows mortgage applications crashing after the expiry of the Obama

As we wrote earlier this week, the most recent inspector general’s report on the politicization of the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department

Following up on Spencer’s post, while President Obama’s critics are silent on the detention of alleged would-be Northwest Airlines Flight 253 bomber Umar Farouk

This weekend, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) told Think Progress that Republicans are purposefully slowing down the legislative pace and purposefully blocking

This is interesting. A group of thousands of scientists, engineers and science buffs called Science Debate 2008 got Sen. Obama and Sen. McCain to answer 14

Yesterday, the International Monetary Fund released a report on the world economy, revising upward its predictions for U.S. economic growth while lowering its

As the battle over legalizing same-sex marriage wages on in New York, new details have surfaced about the defeat of a simliar measure in Maryland: A coalition of African-American conservative groups formed to sway religious Marylanders to appeal to lawmakers to vote against same-sex marriage. The coalition developed an effective narrative, appealing to the black community’s perceived ownership of civil rights. Calls were made. E-mails were sent. Conservative lawmakers joined in, some going so far as to enlist parishes to pressure gay-marriage-supporting delegates in their churches to change their votes. And it worked.

The movie fan site Spout.com just published its top 10 list of movie cameos by politicians, with Sen. John McCain nabbing the top spot with his appearance in

Some more details following yesterday’s story about the National Security Agency looking for a new top lawyer. As it turns out, the super-secret surveillance

In a week that has raised the specter of ballots that may have been wrongfully rejected, lost and, on Tuesday, found, challenged ballots -- those on which

Citizens United’s David Bossie reacted to his massive win in the Supreme Court: Today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing Citizens United to air its