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Since last week’s Supreme Court decision freeing corporations to spend unlimited sums to influence elections, there’s been a great deal of debate about what

Pun of the day so far by Rep. Tom Davis (R-Virg.), regarding Rep. Stephen Lynch’s (D-Mass.) questioning of Clemens. Davis said Lynch asked Clemons a bunch of

Speaking on MSNBC yesterday night, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) pushed for the Obama administration to choose Elizabeth Warren -- a Harvard Law professor and the

The “Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011” sponsored by Rep. John Mica , R-Winter Park, passed the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee today in a 35-20 vote. Environmental law firm Earthjustice argues that the bill is misleading in name, and would do little more than “turn back the clock on existing clean water safeguards.” # Other environmental groups have dubbed Mica’s measure a “dirty water bill,” and argue that it would essentially rewrite the Clean Water Act — removing the EPA’s authority to object to state-approved permits and revise state water quality standards. # “This is not about the state versus the EPA

Last night I posted a link to investigative actions taken by the U.S. military command in Iraq in 2007 after U.S. forces in Baghdad fired upon individuals who

GUANTANAMO BAY -- David Iglesias, who in a previous professional incarnation was a U.S. attorney fired by the Bush administration for insufficient loyalty to

At least that’s the warning coming from the White House, which today released its annual economic outlook report predicting that an average of 95,000 jobs will

The Charleston Gazette’s tireless Ken Ward Jr. notes today that, in southern West Virginia, mountaintop removal mining is threatening more than wildlife and

Laura Bush calls out her husband’s political and press opponents in a new memoir. But former National Security Adviser Frances Townsend refutes Laura Bush’s

With the Christmas recess and the seating of a new Congress looming, the Senate will kick off what should be a make-or-break week for the prospect of extending unemployment benefits and tax cuts by holding a cloture vote at 3 pm on Monday. It is expected that the cloture vote — that’s the vote to end debate and take the real vote — will succeed and so will the bill, which now includes the full compromise reached by President Obama and Republican leaders to extend all of the Bush tax cuts for two years and federal unemployment benefits for one year

The flood of political spending, coupled with the likely defeat of campaign finance hero Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), is making the elections a pretty grim

Via Ezra Klein, Bruce Bartlett argues that state budget shortfalls and ensuing cuts to staff and services clearly cancel out the federal stimulus and that

The New York Times took a stab at getting people who work on Wall Street to defend taking in more than $18 billion in bonuses -- roughly the amount that was

The GEO Group’s North Lake Correctional Facility pink-slipped its workers this week after the state of California decided not to renew a contract to house inmates there. The Baldwin facility, Michigan’s only private prison, originally operated as a maximum security youth prison but sat dormant for six years before reopening in May with a plan to house more than 2,500 California inmates.

According to new numbers from Gallup, more than four in ten Americans describe themselves as conservative, significantly more than the 35 percent who describe

Blogging at Naked Capitalism, Edward Harrison provides a persuasive argument for why retail sales and consumption are increasing, despite persistent joblessness

The #TCOT Report homepage is currently given over to a huge picture of me and this charge, which I’ll just reprint below: Meme Wars: Transparency Dodger

The federal agency charged with ensuring the safety of the nation’s pipeline system released for public comment earlier this week a proposal to overhaul

Jacob Laksin has a lengthy take-out on the muckraking right, the conservative bloggers and videographers who’ve been able to, occasionally, blow past the