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Easily the most curious aspect of the AIG bonus scandal that captivated the country last March was that Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), who’d proposed to stop

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has put a provision into the next year’s defense authorization -- which

During the Colorado legislative session just passed and during the midterm elections last year, state Republicans embraced Arizona-style anti-illegal immigration policy proposals and harsh rhetoric that alienated Coloradans , including non-white Republican politicians and supporters and, perhaps most dramatically , Latino Republicans. Analysts called that kind of politics a sort of longterm suicide mission given the shifting demographics of the state

The U.S. military is using economy of force and intimate knowledge of the local population to combat the insurgency in Afghanistan.

Multiple GOP-affiliated groups are calling for presidential candidate and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson to be invited to an upcoming televised debate in New Hampshire. The debate’s hosts, CNN as well as the New Hampshire Union Leader and WMUR-TV, say they will not include Johnson because he has not received more than 2 percent support in any major national polls.

Since the Wall Street bailout was signed into law last October, critics of the strategy have often been met with a central reassurance from leaders of the

Abu Aardvark frets that the attention paid to shoe-thrower Muntader al-Zaidi will distract from Human Rights Watch’s brand new report about the kangaroo state

Jonathan Martin has the first look at an email going out to Family Research Council supporters in which Tony Perkins tells conservatives to close their wallets

Well, it didn’t take long for House Republicans to recognize that having Henry Waxman atop the House Energy and Commerce Committee is a greater threat to the

Lambda Legal , a New York-based organization committed to winning gay civil rights through the courts, announced in a press release Tuesday that it would challenge New Jersey’s 2006 same sex civil unions law for failing to bring full equality to gay residents of the state. Lambda, which is teaming with New Jersey LGBT group Garden State Equality , will refer to government studies and press investigations that document the way employers have failed to recognize couples entered into a civil union and how civil unions have been ignored or misunderstood by authorities, often in instances involving critical medical decisions. Colorado nearly passed a civil unions bill this spring that its main sponsors, Sen Pat Steadman and Rep Mark Ferrandino, acknowledged fell short of full equality

For the past four years, every time Moqtada Sadr has made this-or-that tactical retrenchment -- standing down from the August 2004 Najaf battle; going to

About 180 jobs are coming to the Fort Dodge area thanks to a $324 million investment from South Korean company CJ Cheiljedang, but a state senator says Gov. Terry Branstad is still way behind on his campaign promise to create 200,000 new jobs over five years. Branstad today announced the facility, which will produce amino acids through fermentation technologies.

Glenn Beck-like, I put my head in my hands over the sheer lunacy expressed by the much-disgraced former New York Democratic congressman: • Earlier in the

No shocker here: People are mad at Washington. From The Washington Post: Two-thirds of Americans are dissatisfied or downright angry about the way the

Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was on Tuesday named chief of the Democratic National Committee . # Wasserman Schultz represents Florida’s 20th congressional district, which covers parts of Broward and Miami-Dade counties and is member of the House Judiciary and Budget committees. # The Miami Herald reports : # An email from Vice President Joe Biden on Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s ascension to DNC chief: # “Debbie has served the people of Florida – first in the Florida State Legislature, and more recently in Congress – for nearly two decades.

A community protest against the planned Corrections Corporation of America immigrant detention center (Pic courtesy Gail Tyree) With more than 100 residents demanding a stop to the construction of an immigration detention center next to the city of Pembroke Pines, commissioners on Wednesday night approved a motion to renegotiate its contract with the town of Southwest Ranches to supply water and sewage to the detention center. Pembroke Pines signed an agreement in June to supply fire and rescue services to the federally funded but privately run immigration detention center, set to be built on land owned by the Corrections Corporation of America but surrounded by Pembroke Pines and unincorporated Broward County.

A new report by the Economic Cycle Research Institute, which correctly called the last three recessions, says that a double dip recession is now inevitable. ECRI says that the economy “is indeed tipping into a new recession” and that there’s “nothing that policy makers can do to head it off.” ECRI’s recession call isn’t based on just one or two leading indexes, but on dozens of specialized leading indexes, including the U.S.

Global warming skeptics hope SuperFreakonomics will continue to shift attitudes toward their cause.

TWI visits a Reston, Va. town hall event to talk with protesters.

We’ve added some new information to TWI’s ever-evolving Senate Public Option Scoreboard. In addition to every senator’s stance on the public option, the

For most anti-abortion rights groups, there should only be one legal alternative to an unwanted pregnancy: putting the baby up for adoption. In the latest

The white supremacist Website Stormfront.org has been getting unwanted attention since the Holocaust Museum shooting, and it’s prompted something you don’t