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Dodd’s financial reform bill centers on a powerful Federal Reserve. For-profits play a major role in earmarks despite restrictions. Ensign’s scandal has

Brazen: Deputy Mayor Azizullah Yarmal walked into a mosque in central Kandahar, turned toward Mecca and began to pray to Allah. As he reached the point where

Cue the OH NOES. From Defense Secretary Bob Gates’ testimony on the defense budget today: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates suggested on Thursday that as many

I just chatted with Raymond Denny, the 64-year-old La Center, Wash., man who received the RNC’s 2009 Future of American Health Survey, which alleged that

At 6:52 a.m. EST this morning, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin posted a 1,141-word Facebook post with an accompanying eight-minute video responding to the

Peter Bergen, the only western reporter to have interviewed Osama bin Laden, reads my post about Obama’s rendition hints and emails: I think the situation

Advocates of comprehensive immigration reform argue it could reduce the flow of illegal immigration. How? One suggestion is to reform the legal immigration

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The Obama administration has proposed cutting funding for programs that go directly to senior services in the 2012 proposed budget, meaning many older Americans

Latino students in Texas still lag behind their Anglo peers in several important measures involving college completion, according to a new report from a

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded Florida about $1.8 million to help the state sign up more children for health insurance.

An omnibus bill drafted by Legislative Republicans was greatly denounced Tuesday at a public hearing on the eve of the Iowa House’s debate on it. In a two-hour public hearing in the Iowa House chamber, representatives heard mostly pleas from individuals and groups who do not want to see cuts or reduced spending on education, tobacco use prevention and the Health and Human Services budget. The omnibus bill wraps several pieces of legislation into a two-year budget proposal

There’s some head-spinning intellectual dishonesty at work in the first two major-media columns that argue, counterintuitively, that Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen

The $600 million border security bill signed into law by Obama last week is fully funded through a hike to visa fees for companies that send large numbers of

With home prices spiraling down, the foreclosure crisis spreading and Wall Street paralyzed by a credit crunch, the once-unthinkable notion of a big

Circuit Judge Jackie Fulford ruled today that the process by which the Florida Legislature pushed through a plan to privatize prisons in 18 counties was unconstitutional, writing that the Department of Corrections “proceeded without statutory authority and contrary to statutory authority” by implementing the plan. The lawsuit was filed by the Police Benevolent Association, a union that represents corrections officers and prison guards. The Florida Independent’s Travis Pillow outlined the argument behind the union’s lawsuit last month: The union has long questioned the financial benefits of privatization and the calculus behind the 7 percent savings mandated by Florida statutes.

So the Pentagon alerts me to an upcoming conference call with Colonel Wayne Grigsby, a brigade commander operating south and east of Baghdad.

In April, I wrote about J Street, the first-ever Jewish-led political organization dedicated to a building an American constituency for an immediate and just

Michael Bromwich -- who was appointed by the Obama administration to reform the former Minerals Management Service (MMS), the agency that was responsible for

Charles Smith at Seeking Alpha has an interesting post estimating that the number of people living in their homes but not paying their mortgages -- people