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Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), a longtime supporter of a single-payer health care system, has been doing much of the liberal grumbling today in the face of

This morning, Fannie Mae -- a government-sponsored enterprise that buys mortgages on the secondary market and that made $72 billion in losses last year --

Everybody has a spoof of Christine O’Donnell’s I’m not a witch ad. Sharron Angle and Harry Reid accuse each other of helping child molesters. Joe

New York state dairy farmer John Bunting doesn’t use an artificial bovine growth hormone on his cows for one key reason. He doesn’t want them getting sick.

John McCain has promised to appoint conservative Supreme Court justices who could radically alter the ideological makeup of the court.

Despite the stall-out in the recovery and the decline in median wages, Wall Street executives look set for record pay-outs this year. The Wall Street Journal

First appeared March 4, 2008 Usually I limit my blogging to environment-related topics, but this was just too good to be true (though I assure you, it is).

The other day I wondered what the reported ascendence of Jim Steinberg to deputy secretary of state meant for Richard Holbrooke’s job prospects. Reading about

In the spring of 2007, as the first wave of new combat brigades arrived in Baghdad to execute President George W. Bush’s troop surge, an Army lieutenant

In the last month, there’s been a rediscovery of Ronald Reagan’s 1965 recording Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine. Sarah Palin deserves a

From The Washington Post: The economy lost more jobs than expected in December while the unemployment rate held steady at 10 percent, as a sluggish economic

As I wrote on Wednesday, there are already several lawsuits from torture victims pending against the United States, and some legal scholars predict many more to

The White House has announced that it will issue an executive order reiterating the 34-year old prohibition on the federal funding of abortion. The move was

Former President George W. Bush’s chief of staff and senior adviser Karl Rove was greeted by right-wing protesters Wednesday evening at the annual Lincoln Dinner in Colorado Springs , a fundraiser for the El Paso County Republican Party.

TPM Muckraker talked to some experts to get their take on the significance of President Obama’s new government transparency orders, and they’re concluding that