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Barry Ritholtz at The Big Picture has an astounding followup to Matthew Blake’s coverage of Congress tearing into the rating agencies on Wednesday. As Matthew

The House voted Friday to block federal funding to Planned Parenthood, passing 240 to 185. The amendment, sponsored by Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), has been added

Here’s the latest research on just where all of the oil that gushed into the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the BP oil spill went. According to

The Minnesota Faith and Freedom Coalition (MFFC) is lending its voice to the battle over a constitutional amendment limiting marriage between a man and a woman in Minnesota.

This revelation from former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge’s new book, nabbed by Paul Bedard, might shed some light on why Ridge passed on a 2010 U.S.

A statement by Dick Armey, the former U.S. House Majority leader from Texas, that only 49 out of 3,000 faculty members at Texas A&M brought in enough money to

The key question about how Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab retained his visa to enter the U.S. centers on the connection between the terror watchlist he was on and

Cultural populism has helped Republicans win many an election. Why haven’t liberals found a way to counter it?

Unexpectedly, Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) have a problem with prospective U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Chris Hill. From a joint statement

In an interesting chain of events last week, “uterus” became a four-letter word on the Florida House floor. A group of pro-uterus insurrectionists have now leaped to the defense of the now-defenseless “uterus” via the Internet

You thought Phil Mudd was done? Months ago, Mudd, the chief of the FBI’s national security branch and a respected longtime CIA official, was forced to withdraw

Merle Wertman, now 62, was diagnosed with Polycythemia Vera five years ago. He had no idea what Polycythemia Vera was. That isn’t surprising, considering

The good news: Officially the nation’s unemployment rate fell to 9.7 percent in January, down from 10 percent in December. The bad news: That figure ignores

Amanda Terkel of ThinkProgress has a blow-by-blow timeline of an ambush by Jesse Watters, a producer for Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor who asks accusatory,

Although he’s not calling it torture anymore, according to Greg Sargent at The Plum Line, President Obama on Tuesday said that he is not opposed to a

Let the games begin. Following yesterday’s high-profile health reform summit at the White House, the Senate Finance Committee announced today that Peter

It has been 22 days since some unemployment insurance recipients stopped receiving benefits, as the extenders bill -- also known as the jobs bill or H.R. 4213

An International Labor Organization’s report released today shows that young workers are among the worst-hit by the global recession. All in all, there are 620

CNN host Lou Dobbs interviewed birther attorney Orly Taitz and perennial presidential candidate Alan Keyes on the July 15 episode of his radio show, asking his