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This is an American proposal that honors the traditions of our country, says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

September’s job numbers indicate the unemployment rate remained steady at 9.1 percent, and that nearly half (44 percent) of the 14 million looking for work

Once a central element to the administration’s plan to help underwater homeowners, cramdown is no longer part of the debate.

Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist tells me that Sen. Arlen Specter’s party switch is not a total disaster because the most important issue

Four and a half years ago I was working for a certain national newspaper when my bosses had a brainstorm: hire two controversial pundits of the right and left

The Radiance Foundation, the group that recently unveiled a series of anti-abortion billboard in Oakland, Calif., has unveiled another set of ads directed at the African-American community. According to a press release , the group will put up no fewer than 50 billboards throughout metro and downtown Atlanta, in an effort to expose what they call “the epidemic of abortion.” # The billboards liken abortion to slavery, proclaiming, “The 13th Amendment freed us.

With the news that Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) will be leaving his post to take the helm of the Senate Health, Education, Labor

While judges must recuse themselves from cases where financial interests are at stake, members of Congress regularly invest in the very companies they regulate.

The banks won’t give you a mortgage modification, but they will sell your house for you at a loss and keep the proceeds.

Kate has a great piece today about some of the nation’s polluters embracing once-dreaded regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency in order to fend

The sprawling greater-Denver metro region is in news-media crisis. In the information age, when there seems to be more and more to know, there is less and less being reported by the diminishing number of local mainstream news outlets here

Salon’s Rebecca Traister says cry me a freaking river to the commentators expressing pity for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, in the wake of her painful

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals affirms, as expected, the decision of a lower court to fine birther lawyer Orly Taitz $20,000 for her conduct in a lawsuit on

It’s hard to see how this helps Rick Perry in a brutal Republican primary contest, but former President Bill Clinton on Monday defended Perry’s position on immigration and his support of the Texas Dream Act. From CNN:

After months of dismal news coming out of Wall Street, a few rays of light have shown through in recent days. Last week, Wells Fargo announced a $3 billion

Here’s a really smart Manu Raju piece on how Republicans, who were completely on message mere weeks ago with anti-Nancy Pelosi and anti-Gitmo closing campaigns,

Yesterday, the full Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals handed a surprising victory to state Republicans by requiring Ohio election officials to check all new

Florida governor Charlie Crist, who’s running for Senate as an independent, said Social Security could remain solvent longer if more immigrants were able to