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The company tasked with guarding the U.S. embassy in Kabul stands accused of defrauding the State Department, hiring non-English speaking guards and involvement in prostitution.

The very unamused people at the Project on Government Oversight, which broke the story of ArmorGroup’s out-of-control security guards at the U.S. embassy in

Republican presidential hopeful and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann was named by the environmental activist group Greenpeace as one of 15 politicians “who are among those in the House of Representatives working for America’s dirty and decrepit coal-fired power industry.” The report , released Monday, details each representative’s contributions to coal pollution. According to the report’s introduction: These 15 members have tried to stop EPA from modernizing standards for pollutants that come predominantly from coal-fired power plants, including mercury, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, greenhouse gases, and coal ash.

In a letter today to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the American Medical Association, the nation’s largest doctors lobby, announced its support for

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the secretary-general of the NATO alliance, told an audience at Georgetown University today that this year the alliance’s military

TWI’s David Weigel went head-to-head with The American Prospect’s Tim Fernholz on bloggingheads.tv yesterday, discussing a wide range of topics, from the

For a random person with no role in the presidential election, William Ayers has drawn plenty of political attention lately. We try to focus on real issues

As a dramatic feature, yesterday’s high-profile health care summit in Washington was a flop. That is, for all the breathtaking headlines inspired by the

Following up on my earlier post on the FBI’s longstanding problems with putting terror suspects on its terror watchlist, I just got off the phone with FBI

It’s not the five years of additional funding many advocates were hoping for, but the Senate’s compromise on health reform does include money to extend the

For most of the Republican presidential contenders, Occupy Wall Street and its assorted spin-offs such as Occupy Denver are bad news. Occupiers have been characterized essentially as lazy bums and their message as a cry for class warfare

Michael Zak, the historian who wrote the biographies of famous black Republicans on the GOP’s Heroes page, has an op-ed at Big Government comparing ACORN’s

While Planned Parenthood of Indiana lost its injunction Wednesday against a brand-new Indiana law -- signed by Gov. Mitch Daniels on Tuesday -- that strips

The Teapot Party has retracted its endorsement of of Gary Johnson for president in 2012. The political party, founded by country legend and marijuana legalization advocate Willie Nelson, explained the confusion surrounding the endorsement on the party’s blog

At his oil spill hearing today, Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) questioned Obama administration officials about their testing of Gulf seafood. Markey, the House

Do you know a guy named... K-I-R-I-A-K-O-U, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) asks Ali Soufan, referring to a former CIA official who alleged that -- at an

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), in a floor speech today, called for expanding electric and natural gas vehicles legislation slated to come up for a procedural vote

OK, never mind what I said about Lawrence O’Donnell. Fox News has an item about a possible Colin Powell endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama that relies on

A Pew Research poll released today shows Sen. Barack Obama with his largest lead of the campaign -- a whopping 16 points. In the 1,325-voter sample, Obama

Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic reports that the GOP convention HQ in St. Paul, Minn., is getting a flood of calls from "people who identify themselves as

In my piece on Friday about Bob Gates’ agenda in the Obama administration, Larry Korb raised the question of what outmoded programs he’s going to ax. After all,

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is softening his criticism of Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform proposal, which Democrats