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With unemployment still hovering in double digits and no real relief in sight, a group of 30 Senate Democrats today is urging party leaders to extend emergency

Daniel Tencer reports that ACORN is encouraging supporters to write letters to attorneys general demanding investigations of James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles -- a

At the outset of the lame-duck session in Congress, The Washington Independent writers previewed what would happen. They predicted that a temporary extension of

The Associated Press had a good story Sunday on non-citizens who served in the military and now face deportation for committing crimes. If non-citizens die

Promoters of Canadian tar sands oil have launched a media campaign around the idea that by replacing Saudi oil with Canadian crude the U.S. can reduce payments to a government that oppresses women.

Just to be clear, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) wants the world to know that a health reform proposal lacking a public option won’t become law because

As a White House press briefing on the New START nuclear-reductions treaty with Russia gets underway, here’s a factsheet the White House sent out about what

Just released by the Department of Justice. He’s calling it a Preliminary Review into the interrogation of certain detainees. Notice that Holder did not

This afternoon, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the majority leader, released the text of a letter he sent to mortgage servicers in Nevada, asking them to stop

According to a new report, Florida ranks 44th in the U.S. for long-term care.

Ever since the Bear Stearns bailout, the Fed’s opening of its discount window to investment banks, and the rethinking of Alan Greenspan’s legacy, there’s

The liberal group -- which recently campaigned for liberal Democratic senators to kill a health care bill that didn’t include a public option -- is asking its

This morning, Sen. Robert Casey (D-Pa.) introduced an amendment to reinstate subsidies that help newly unemployed workers purchase health insurance to the

Sometimes sorry seems to be the hardest word, but Treasury Secretary-nominee Timothy Geithner apologized profusely at his confirmation hearing today for

I emailed Curt Levey, director of the Committee for Justice, after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) announced that he would support Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to

The radio host, on vacation, throws up his hands: I don’t know what this means. In a free-form statement, he mostly just takes shots at the elites who doubt

In the month since the Deepwater Horizon disaster caused a Gulf of Mexico gusher, many experts have both doubted the official estimate that just 5,000 barrels

I’m really fascinated by the rapid rise and apparent fall of Debra Medina, the small-time Republican activist who surged into the mid-20s in her race for the

Twice a year, thousands of machine gun and artillery enthusiasts attend the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot.