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In a civil suit filed in DC Superior Court this month, Greenpeace is charging Dow Chemical with trespassing, tapping their phones, hacking into their computer systems and infiltrating their organization. The International Business Times reports that Greenpeace says Dow worked with others to thwart their environmental campaigns around dioxin and genetically modified organisms. The group claims that from 1998-2000, investigative security teams hired by Dow’s PR company stole information

At the risk of sounding like one of those Obama apologists that Glenn Greenwald effectively pilloried in his post yesterday, I have to say that I’m not as

I missed this at the end of last week: Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.), whose multi-week effort against Eric Holder ended with a sort of whimper, is asking the

At a luncheon at the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s headquarters near Capitol Hill (organized by the Heritage Foundation), I asked Sen. John Cornyn

While the Four Corners area is one of the most remote regions of the lower 48 states, it’s also home to some of the dirtiest coal-fired power plants in the nation. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) earlier this month set out to remedy that situation

Roger Stockham, the California man arrested in Dearborn this weekend for an alleged plot to blow up the Islamic Center of America mosque, has a long history of extremism, violence and mental problems.

According to an early-morning press release from ISAF, the NATO force in Afghanistan, Afghan troops supported by NATO forces have concluded a five-day

NPR’s Ina Jaffe reports on Carly Fiorina’s race against California’s Barbara Boxer for her Senate seat: When you have people like Barbara Boxer in Washington,

And we’re off! What a start. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) opened up with a question on waterboarding and whether or not Holder considers it to be torture, to

As congressional Republicans continue to warn that the Democrats’ health reform plans would put government bureaucrats between you and your doctor, Rep.

My TWI colleague, Ari Melber, raises an interesting point in response to a comment Sen. John McCain made in that interview with the editorial board of The Des

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We reported yesterday that the Senate intelligence committee is planning an investigation of the CIA’s interrogation tactics, including a probe of the use of

Researchers at the progressive group One Wisconsin Now found that, on August 17, the day after the last of the recall elections in the state forced by Democrats aghast at Walker’s politics, Koch Industries bought up at least three anti-Koch domains: StopKoch.com, StopKochIndustries.com, and AntiKoch.com.

Last year, the Democratic Congress enthusiastically acquiesced to President George W. Bush’s insistence on carving out individualized suspicion and other

Kenneth Tomlinson at Human Events, which ran the Evans-Novak Report until it was ended last year, confirms that the conservative reporter Robert Novak has died

Medicare Advantage is at the forefront of congressional bickering. Again. Indeed, a large chunk of yesterday’s health reform debate in the Senate Finance

In Denver last week to plug his memoir and rally occupiers, filmmaker Michael Moore made one thing perfectly clear: He has not let becoming a one-percenter change his worldview. Not even a little. In a nearly 90-minute speech at CU Denver , Moore by turns excoriated the country for turning its back on its young and let those same young people know that their turn to run the country is at hand.

One week after Marin Cogan wrote a spot-on profile of Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), the punchy freshman Democrat fulfilled her prediction that he would be the

New Mexico has added 100 government jobs since 2007, making it one of 22 states to have added rather than lost government jobs since the start of the economic crisis in 2007. The New Mexico Business Weekly reports on an On Numbers study of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data showing that while “New Mexico is one of the states that has added jobs… it is tied for the least amount of government job growth with Kentucky” since the start of the recession

Sen. Ted Kaufman (D-Del.) never liked the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform bill. Though it was strengthened through the legislative process, he still felt

NPR published a detailed investigative story yesterday on mining safety that finds safety and health violations by operators of underground coal mines have

Maryland House Del. Emmett C. Burns (D-Baltimore County) is moving forward with a strategy to defeat same-sex-marriage legislation that involves partnering with