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Senate Dems actually appear to be addressing Joe Wilson’s concerns. And really, his outburst was mild by international standards. Obama gets a health care

Doctors that worked in Rick Scott’s health care company say records show Medicare was being charged 100 percent, rather than the mandated 85 percent, for some visits.

The New York Times editorial board slammed the Koch brothers yesterday, arguing they are disastrously wrong about the science and economics behind climate

From 2006 to 2010, the state spent $11.7 million on its Texas Alternatives to Abortion Services Program, with nearly $7 million of that finding its way to 33

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Members of the Republican leadership in the Minnesota Senate have introduced legislation to ban state funding for abortions, just weeks after saying that creating jobs and fixing the budget deficit would be the party’s top priorities.

Mike Konczal, a writer for the Atlantic, makes a very prescient statement on his blog about the difficult time the unemployed have had in getting their interests taken as seriously as the interests of the wealthy and powerful: We just had to bribe the top 3% with massive tax cuts for the next two years in order to keep unemployment insurance extensions in place for another year. Unemployment benefit extension are a net job creator and should have been a no-brainer, but it couldn’t pass without a massive bribe

In making its decision to expand offshore drilling earlier this year (before the massive oil spill in the Gulf), the Obama administration did not work closely

The number-one factor fueling high school dropouts across the country is pregnancy and parenthood, a problem Colorado Congressman Jared Polis hopes to address by reintroducing his Pregnant and Parenting Students Access to Education Act . He pitched for the bill Thursday at Denver’s Florence Crittenton High School , a one-of-a-kind facility that provides the kind of “wraparound services” like daycare and counseling that make it possible for young parents to stay in school. Polis says that if the country is going to address the serious social and economic problems that come of dropouts, than providing support for parenting students is the best way to begin.

Rep. Mark Kirk’s (R-Ill.) successful Illinois Senate primary campaign against a truly weak field of GOP candidates is being interpreted as a blow to the Tea

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Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) proposed this week $400 billion in real and necessary budget cuts in federal spending to avoid raising the budget ceiling

Today, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Treasury Department unveiled a new monthly scorecard on the administration’s efforts to stabilize

Contrary to nearly a year of stern insistence from the Obama administration that Israel refrain from all growth in occupied Palestinian territory -- an

Staff at a meeting of the national oil spill commission today seemed perplexed as to why rig workers did not recognize that a key pressure test failed shortly

The U.S. Senate passed the Budget Control Act of 2011 on Tuesday, after the bill was approved Monday by the Republican-controlled House of

Barry Ritholtz posts a clear summary of the foreclosure process, to help understand the massive unfolding foreclosure fraud scandal. Here is, document by

No sooner did this story go out about the Obama administration’s strained ties with U.S. Muslim organizations than comes this announcement from the

Yesterday, in fact. Sponsored by Reps. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) and Barney Frank (D-Mass.), the bill would allow U.S. farmers to grow industrial, non-psychoactive