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Lloyd Blankfein -- head of Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs, against which the SEC filed civil charges last week for defrauding clients in some mortgage-backed

The New York Times reports that President Obama met with a group of Senate Democrats at the White House today to discuss energy legislation. No word from the

The entire pleading of Connie Rhodes v. Barack Hussein Obama et al, the latest attempt by Orly Taitz to use a soldier as a dupe for an Obama citizenship

Van Jones’ rapid downfall is an educational moment for the wing of the conservative movement that has tried, without much success, to paint environmental activists as anti-capitalist radicals.

The national buzz on Iowa’s upcoming special election in Senate District 18 may be focused on the future of civil marriage, but you’d never know it from the candidate outreach to local residents. “Better jobs

TWI has acquired the text of a congressional resolution that may be introduced in the next few days condemning the findings of U.N. investigator Richard

Something I didn’t know but Brandon Friedman at VoteVets did: a staff sergeant leading an infantry squad in Afghanistan makes, with combat pay, about $44,500

Former George W. Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson is about the furthest thing from a bleeding-heart apologist for criminal behavior. But in his column in

Dennis Whitfield of the American Conservative Union has sent out a press release on today’s embarrassing Mike Allen story that alleges a pay-for-play proposal

Another Senate candidate is resisting the changing political calculus surrounding earmarks, in which candidates have begun shying away from touting the spending

Adam Serwer has a must-read piece on the case against the New Black Panther Party, the thuggish fringe group whose members were detained on Election Day 2008

As we wrote earlier this week, the most recent inspector general’s report on the politicization of the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department

Barry Ritholtz points to this chart of the Mortgage Bankers’ Association purchase index. It shows mortgage applications crashing after the expiry of the Obama

Some more details following yesterday’s story about the National Security Agency looking for a new top lawyer. As it turns out, the super-secret surveillance

In a week that has raised the specter of ballots that may have been wrongfully rejected, lost and, on Tuesday, found, challenged ballots -- those on which

This morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a major report on April’s jobs numbers. The unemployment rate rose from 9.7 percent in March to 9.9

Cesar, a construction worker who asked that we not use his last name, tells The Florida Independent he has not been paid after working eight weeks at a construction project in the Broward County city of Sunrise. He says at least 50 workers who work 10 hours or more a day on this project have not received their wages for anywhere from three weeks to two months.

A cash-for-clunkers scheme, which would provide financial incentives for drivers to trade in their old gas-guzzlers for new fuel-efficient cars, has gained

Ryan Grim reports from the House Republicans’ press conference to launch their alternative budget plan, which was previewed on page A-1 of Politico today as a

Once again, argue conservatives, attacks on Democrats are taken more seriously than attacks on Republicans.

After years of slamming anyone who proposed any sort of amnesty for illegal aliens, former CNN host Lou Dobbs has apparently changed his tune. On Friday, he

Much as Gen. Raymond Odierno recently said, here’s Col. Gary Volesky, commander of the U.S. brigade combat team in Mosul: Q Hi, sir. This is Daphne Benoit

More from Defense Secretary Bob Gates’ press conference call about withdrawing from Iraq. Gates was asked if he supported keeping troops in Iraq beyond 2011,