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“We bailed out the banks and the insurance companies. Now it’s time to bail out the American people,” urged the Rev. Al Sharpton.

On Wednesday, I wrote a post reacting to Max Blumenthal’s story James O’Keefe’s Race Problem and was too quick with a description of the August 30, 2006

It’s worth noting that in his speech this morning, while President Obama said he doesn’t think Congress ought to convene a truth commission along the lines of

Today, the Senate voted to move forward to a final, majority-rules vote on the Small Business Jobs Act. Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio), who is retiring this

Ben Smith and Jonathan Martin confirm that Sarah Palin’s honorarium for speeches is $100,000, two first class plane tickets and one economy class ticket. On the

Most Democrats aren’t calling for Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) to resign, but they’re continuing to donate the campaign contributions they received from him to

Earlier this month, the Department of Justice threatened to sue controversial Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio if he did not agree to turn over documents for a civil

CQ Politics notes that a fight is brewing in Congress (finally) over the charge that the Defense Department allowed Chinese government agents to abusively

UPDATE: Bradley Smith posted a comprehensive explanation of his views here, and criticized this post for not making it clear that contributions by foreign

The CIA is none too happy about the recent disclosure of apparently inchoate significant actions canceled by Director Leon Panetta. After the activities’

When former Sen. Chuck Hagel reached across the aisle last month to endorse Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) for the Senate last month, Sestak gladly accepted the honor

Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) is making a lot of waves with some highly controversial statements about unemployment insurance and tax cuts. Here’s Talking Points

They friend each other! Mr. Neely, an Army veteran who spent six months at the prison in 2002, sent messages to one of the freed men, Shafiq Rasul, and was

Here’s a follow up to my post yesterday on NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman’s outside-of-the-district fundraising, which came in at a remarkable

WATERTOWN, N.Y. - Dozens of activists from Generation Joshua have made the trip to New York’s 23rd Congressional District, and on Monday they organized into

The local media in West Virginia are having a hard time stomaching the campaign ads (and national news coverage) of the suddenly competitive Senate race in

Adam Serwer at The American Prospect gets ahold of a letter from Attorney General Eric Holder responding to some of GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.)

The Senate shot down legislation Wednesday that would have effectively scrapped local and state conceal and carry laws.

A new report by the Clean Air Task Force, a nonprofit environmental group, finds that pollution from coal-fired power plants will result in the premature death

You probably haven’t heard of the TANF Emergency Fund, a program tucked into the massive $787 billion Feb. 2009 stimulus, but the administration considered it

Sens. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) on Thursday responded to a growing number of reports about the poor

Via Felix Salmon, Reuters writer James B. Kelleher has a great, long-form story on unemployed industrial workers and the fate of manufacturing in Michigan. He

This is one weird comment on President Obama’s proposed repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell from House GOP leader John Boehner (R-Ohio): Boehner predicted that