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When Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) Friday called Wall Street executives idiots for using taxpayer money to pay out $18 billion in bonuses, then proposed that

Congress has until Friday at midnight to pass 12 appropriations bills for fiscal year 2012, as well as stopgap spending legislation to keep the government

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) -- who apparently woke up this morning and said to himself, Today, I’m going to make some news -- told reporters

If you saw me on al-Jazeera fifteen minutes ago making this point, sorry for repeating myself. But if not: Robert Gibbs said in his White House press conference

As co-chair of the House Medical Technology Caucus, U.S. Rep.

It’s become rare lately to hear any anti-abortion argument without also hearing the words eugenics, Margaret Sanger and genocide. In the past few years,

As President and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute, Gerard is one of the biggest mouthpieces for the oil and gas industries in the climate change debate.

With the announcement that General Motors will add 4,000 new jobs around the country, the total number of workers for the Big Three automakers is now approaching the levels from before the industry crash and resulting bankruptcies for GM and Chrysler. The Detroit Free Press reports : Ford, which restructured without federal aid, now has 76,000 workers — more than it had in 2008.

To much fanfare, the Obama administration a year ago launched a $75 billion program designed to prevent foreclosures by providing financial incentives to

Here’s one interesting tidbit from today’s conference call on the deepwater drilling moratorium. Even though the administration has decided to lift the

Controversial political stalwart Karl Rove said that he doesn’t think Iowa and New Hampshire Republican voters need worry about Democratic infiltrators in upcoming primaries or caucuses — at least not as long as the Obama 2012 campaign is being led by a nobody. Rove, who served as a senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to President George W.

Quality preschool, including easy accessibility to it, is key for any state’s quest to reform education and be a frontrunner in the classroom, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in a Monday morning keynote on the first day of the Iowa Education Summit , and Iowa is no exception. “A commitment to free public preschool will pay off for Iowa,” Duncan said, amid applause.

Results from a Pew Research Center poll released Wednesday show that so far, President Obama has the edge over his GOP counterparts in the next presidential

Cardinal Daniel DiNardo (Pic by Nieve44/La Luz, via Flickr) The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is urging Catholics to write letters of opposition to the federal government over its recent decision to require insurance providers to cover birth control without co-payments.

I think it’s a bit above my pay grade to speculate on the broader sociological meaning of this. But for what it is worth, the arrested subject of this past

A May 2009 video of California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman praising Van Jones, which was posted by TWI yesterday, has inspired a parody video from the

The controversial Radiance Foundation is still dissatisfied with a recent NPR interview with its founder, Ryan Bomberger. Since the July 18 airing of the interview on Tell Me More , Bomberger has maintained that NPR heavily edited his portion of the interview, while preserving the words of pro-choice Rev.

GOP Senate candidate Adam Hasner (right), in a 2009 photo (Pic by Meredith Geddings, via myfloridahouse.gov) GOP Senate hopeful Adam Hasner called Occupy Wall Street supporters all over the country “anarchists,” “extremists” and “thugs” in an email to supporters today.

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), the self-described (sort of) freedom fighter against the Democratic majority, is rolling out the latest of his hard-right economic

When Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) switched parties, Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform told me that it could have been worse; Specter was still blocking

As The American Independent recently reported, Maryland groups against same-sex marriage legalization in the state are informing churches how to influence

According to a podcast recorded by the Birthers who are walking around Washington handing out Citizen’s Grand Jury presentments, they’re delivering a package