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Last month, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) made a rather remarkable statement about the trillion-dollar Bush tax cuts, arguing, here’s no evidence whatsoever

Defense reporters these days have a number of anecdotes that they believe reveals Pentagon chief Bob Gates’ true colors. Some like his April 2007 press

You know it’s August when The Washington Post recycles news almost a decade old on its front page. This morning’s story on the Coast Guard leads with the

On their last day in Washington before leaving on a five-week vacation, House lawmakers on Friday passed a $2 billion extension of the enormously popular cash

It’s not everyday that lawmakers with top ratings from the National Rifle Association go around criticizing the powerful gun lobby. But regarding the NRA’s bid

Last night, TWI’s Annie Lowrey talked to Chris Hayes, guest host of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, about the burgeoning political consciousness of unemployed

Immigrant and Latino advocacy groups, as well as some media watchdogs, are cheering the news today that longtime CNN anchor Lou Dobbs has resigned. The Drop

Blink and you’ll miss Secretary of Defense Bob Gates giving the back of his hand to Vice President Dick Cheney during a Q&A session yesterday at the

It’s one of the year’s slower news days, a perfect time for this rap from Hi Caliber. The best line, in my opinion: The population of the march was over a

The 180 website header (Pic via 180movie.com) A group that fights anti-Semitism has denounced a film popular among anti-abortion activists linking abortion to the Holocaust.

The bankruptcy experts over at creditslips.org, while careful to shy away from actually going down that road, nonetheless picked apart the comments on

With Republicans slated to vote next Tuesday on Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-S.C.) proposal to end the practice of members requesting earmarks in the Senate, Mark

As Allison noted earlier, Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson finally feels it’s time for more transparency on Wall Street, especially if unregulated mortgage

The commission Defense Secretary Robert Gates appointed to investigate how the Army failed to notice the radicalization of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged

Does a House bill about legal civil procedures provide a way to restore the protection of civil rights in America, or is it an unwarranted gift to trial lawyers

Slate’s David Weigel points to an explanation of why measures that would prioritize spending to keep America from missing payments on its debt (such as one proposed by Central Florida Rep.

Banking on an injunction filed Wednesday against the city, Occupy Dallas protesters are hunkering down as lawyers argue for their right to demonstrate in a city

A scratched back is scratching back. One of the first candidates endorsed by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Clute) in 2008 has been named the chair of Paul’s

Depending on who you ask, the sentencing yesterday of Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri to eight years in prison is either evidence that the civilian federal judicial

The old Florida capitol (Pic by Diligent Terrier, via Wikimedia Commons) On Thursday, legislators learned that Florida could face a $2.25 billion shortfall in 2012, leading Gov. Rick Scott and other legislative leaders to direct state agencies to identify ways to shave 10 percent off their budgets for fiscal year 2012-13. For the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, those cuts could mean eliminating law enforcement positions and reducing the amount of invasive species control

President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that he plans to use an executive order to ease student loan debt for millions of Americans.

How did prison guards at Guantanamo overlook three men hanging from nooses in their cells for more than two hours, in what was supposed to be a super-high