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It was a tough day to be Herbert Allison. The Treasury official charged with monitoring the $700 billion Wall Street bailout appeared Thursday before the

Conservative fire-starter John Ziegler, the radio host and producer of the pro-Sarah Palin movie Media Malpractice, got booted from a panel at this weekend’s

The American Principles Project has just launched ExpelJennings.org, a blog dedicated to ousting Kevin Jennings from the Department of Education via online

Summer recalls targeting six Republicans and three Democrats attracted $43.9 million in spending from special interest groups and candidates, with Democrats outspending Republicans by almost $3 million, according to an analysis from the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.

Just how tough are the Obama administration’s new executive compensation limits for bailed out firms? Well, as a hint, Wall Street sees them as no threat at

The American Center for Law and Justice is the first conservative legal group (that I’ve seen, at least) to pivot to a full-out repeal campaign. From their

Brad Setser at Follow the Money gets it exactly right today: It looks like the U.S. government’s no-bailout policy lasted all of two days. Adding to that

It’s Friday, so it’s time for another amusingly tone-deaf Harold Ford, Jr. interview. This one, in the New York Post, got me wondering whether Ford had New York

Beginning next month, many Michigan residents now receiving food stamps will likely lose their benefits as the state begins to look at assets as well as income in determining eligibility. AP reports : Michigan has determined food assistance eligibility based only on income for roughly a decade. A new policy will include a review of certain financial assets starting Oct 1.

Joan Lowy talks to a spokeswoman for Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) about his comment that President Obama’s support for legal abortion made him an enemy of

That’s what The Associated Press is reporting, citing an unnamed source with knowledge of the investigation. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and former

U.S. Rep

John Hickenlooper is an officeholder and a politician and yet he is well liked among the public. According to a survey conducted by Public Policy Polling last

This is a fantastic story in both senses of the term: elegantly written and reported by The Washington Post’s Anthony Shadid; and substantively a Good Thing.

Related to our story yesterday about Wall Street firms acting only in the interests of shareholders, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) last week asked eight bank

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Paul Bedard talks with conservatives who are positively twitterpated with Liz Cheney and want her to launch a political career. She could start with a major

Part 1: Foreign investors grow ever more nervous as the dollar drops relative to other currencies.

I’m in an overstuffed ballroom at the Willard hotel for the third annual conference of the Center for a New American Security, where the commander of U.S.

Audio smuggled out of the right-wing billionaire benefactor Koch Brothers’ secret meeting in Beaver Creek last month has made headlines for the red-meat rhetoric it captured and for identifying the high-profile attendees who sneaked in and out of the event. The fact that Charles Koch welcomed the crowd by referring to the coming presidential election as a Saddam Hussein-style “mother of all battles” is unsurprising but also unsettling– and not just because it’s an aggressive overstatement

The founder of the influential Fastweb.com and FinAid.org websites wrote a short research paper two weeks ago arguing college minorities receive a