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From the counter-intuitive file: Yesterday, the Democratic National Committee launched a new campaign called Exxon-McCain ’08, seeking to paint Sen. John McCain

The upcoming re-argument of the case of Citizens United v. FEC, challenging corporate contributions to the financing of Hillary: The Movie, is raising some

Pic via dbmathews.com The waiting list to enroll in Florida’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program grew to more than 1,070 people by last Thursday, according to the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors. AIDS Drug Assistance Programs, known as ADAP, are a nationwide payer of last resort for people who cannot afford their HIV/AIDS medications

The national oil spill commission released today four reports written by commission staff assessing the government’s response to the Gulf oil spill. The reports

A few hundred New Yorkers gathered in a cold and rainy Foley Square in downtown Manhattan on Saturday to protest the Obama administration’s decision to try the

The fourth time may be a charm for an ethics bill sponsored by Florida Sen. Paula Dockery, R-Lakeland. # On Wednesday, the Senate government oversight panel approved the measure, which Dockery has sponsored three times in the past.

Source: Sen. Lee Bright’s Facebook page

Lawmakers have a choice: let the foreclosure grind on for perhaps years, at the expense of millions of homeowners, or take the crisis head on.

The saga of the Pat Buchanan and Tom Tancredo employee who pleaded guilty to a hate crime is over, for now. At about 10 am on July 8th, in the District of

Minnesota Congressman told college activists at a gathering last week that conservatives like Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann want to keep women barefoot and pregnant. “We live in an era of extremism,” Ellison said in his July 6 address to the 2011 Campus Progress National Conference in Washington, D.C.

Many experts say slow job recovery is a simple economic reality going back at least 20 years.

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The New York Times reported today that BP has indicated it may not be able to pay all of the $20 billion in compensation it has promised victims of the Gulf oil

At midnight Sept. 20, the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ law prohibiting openly gay lesbian and bisexual Americans from serving in the U.S. military will end

Texas’ arrangement with the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston to cover health care for its prison population has been a troubled one for years,

State Sen. Arthenia Joyner, D-Tampa (Pic by Minority Office, via flsenate.gov) State Sen.

Jonathan Martin and Manu Raju’s fun story about the surprisingly oppositional role Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has played this year includes what has to be a

Counterinsurgency made-man Dave Kilcullen -- you remember him: counterinsurgency adviser to David Petraeus and Condoleezza Rice -- has expressed skepticism

Maybe it’s a cultural thing, but Canadians seem so much more willing to apologize for their mistakes than Americans do. According to the Canadian

In about three weeks, upstate New Yorkers will decide who should replace former U.S. Rep. Chris Lee, who in early February resigned after Gawker exposed

When is this ever going to end? Conservative lawmakers are seizing on ACORN’s troubles to once again go after the Community Reinvestment Act, an anti-redlining