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I’m way late to this party -- stupid Panetta hearing! -- but judging from this interview with Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), the GOP has apparently decided to

Orly Taitz, the birther attorney who gained a sort of official movement leadership status with this week’s appearence on The Colbert Report, is bragging

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on July 8, 2009. Remember how CIA Director Leon

With a new CBS/New York Times poll finding that 59 percent of registered voters don’t think Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is ready to be vice president, one of Sen.

As Republican leaders are urging President Obama to scrap the Democrats’ health care reform legislation and start the process from scratch, they’ve found an

Florida had 69 mass layoff actions during the month of September, the fourth highest number in the nation, according to a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics summary released today

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Former CEOs insist at congressional hearings that larger market forces, rather than decisions made by executives, caused Wall Street to unravel.

Yesterday, Noah Shachtman asked if the United States was really at war in Pakistan. Today President Obama made it clear: yes, the war is in Pakistan, with an

Leading up to the 2012 election, women are watching -- more specifically, Planned Parenthood is watching. On Election Day 2011, when Mississippians voted down

California Republicans are publicly wringing their hands this primary day over the possibility that a birther movement leader may actually be their nominee for

Today, the S&P/Case Shiller Housing Index shows some worrying, if unsurprising, statistics about the housing market. The good news is that the

That Top Kill maneuver that appeared so successful at blocking the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico earlier today? Not so successful anymore: BP had to

A plan designed to help 400,000 homeowners modify their mortgage terms has only helped 25 borrowers.

Despite Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) imprudent confirmation last week that the unmanned aerial vehicles that the United States uses to fire missiles at

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Just two days after receiving a letter from the White House urging that a public plan be part of the Democrats’ health reform strategy, Senate Finance Committee