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Well, you might have a bit more if Reps. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Ron Paul (R-Texas) get their way. The two lawmakers have plans to reintroduce legislation to

The Obama administration’s budget blueprint for fiscal year 2011, unveiled yesterday, includes $49 billion to expand federal unemployment benefits, which

Marc Theissen, get set to attack your next target -- Michael Sulick, head of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service. Via Jeff Stein, Sulick, a longtime CIA

Jameel Jaffer, head of the American Civl Liberties Union’s national security project, has a few problems with Defense Department General Jeh Johnson’s

I’ve written in the past about the evolution of the anti-jihadist blogosphere and intelligentsia. A few years ago, arguments arose between activists and

The inmate population in the United States has grown steadily over the past fifteen years, increasing by 49.6 percent, while the proportion of those prisoners

The Canadian government, which has been pushing hard for approval of the Keystone XL pipeline that would bring more tar sands crude oil to the United States, left out data on higher greenhouse gas emissions from that type of oil from a UN report. The Vancouver Sun reports : The federal government has acknowledged that it deliberately excluded data indicating a 20 per cent increase in pollution from Canada’s oilsands industry in 2009 from a recent 567-page report on climate change that it was required to submit to the United Nations

PITTSBURGH - From a flier making its way around RightOnline:

The Human Rights Campaign and the Courage Campaign, a California-based progressive alliance, announced today that they’ve launched a new website devoted solely

Suddenly, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s abrupt resignation announcement might make a bit more sense. An independent investigator has found evidence that Gov. Sarah

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is reeling after a rough debate in Orlando, Fla., and is still taking heat for defending the law he signed 10 years ago, granting in-state

Via Rick Klein, here’s a combative address by Federal Communications Commission diversity officer Mark Lloyd, a frequent target of Glenn Beck and the Tea Party

Jennifer Yachnin reports this detail in a story on the relative personal wealth of senators. Wealth in the chamber ranges from Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) —

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ANCHORAGE -- I’m here at Humpy’s bar on 6th Street in downtown Anchorage, Alaska getting ready to watch hometown governor Sarah Palin introduce herself to the

This story, which was reported in The Guardian and confirmed by publicly filed court documents, is one of the stranger means the Obama administration has used

During the month of August, 110 people have joined Florida’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program waiting list, the longest waiting list in the U.S. # The federally funded AIDS Drug Assistance Program provides medications for the treatment of HIV and AIDS for people who cannot afford to pay because they are unemployed, uninsured or underinsured. # Florida Bureau of HIV/AIDS data (.pdf) and the National Association of State and Territorial AIDS Directors’ latest ADAP Watch (.pdf) update show that by Aug.

There’s been a great deal of confusion surrounding the Democrats’ proposals to extend the filing deadline for unemployment benefits, which came and went

Watch the former Bush speechwriter and torture enthusiast on Morning Joe today. His first point is that President Obama is endangering the country because the

Politico has a good story this morning breaking down criticism over Sen. Robert Menendez’s comprehensive immigration bill, which could be unveiled as early as