In a stunning reversal, Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives on Tuesday shelved a bill that would have given the District of Columbia full voting rights...
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Reeling from a criminal probe into the Florida GOP's finances, Republican leaders finally got a peek Wednesday at the spending habits of the man at the center of...
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Legislation being introduced Thursday in Congress would try to rein in payday lenders who offer short-term loans that often average to more than 400 percent annual...
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The Republican rhetoric sounded tough on financial regulatory reform early this week. “Shame on the president,” said Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.), who...
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How we can be experiencing the largest economic meltdown in decades with no real mass mobilization or ongoing response from the progressive world? In politics,...
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My fellow Kentuckians...Why is this man still in office? Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has been blasting the Senate’s financial regulatory...
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Senate Republicans today debuted their new strategy for financial reform: Refuse to cooperate with Democrats on grounds that the Dems are too willing to give Wall...
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At the Southern Republican Leadership Conference last week, former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich outlined a two-tiered strategy for the GOP if they win...
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It is often said that the new health care law will affect almost every American in some way. And, perhaps fittingly, if unintentionally, no one may be more affected...
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Mike Huckabee, a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2012, says the effort to allow gays and lesbians to marry is comparable to legalizing incest, polygamy...
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The White House and leading Democrats in Congress are close to proposing legislation that would force private companies and groups to disclose their behind-the-scenes...
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Much has been made about Senate Republicans’ abuse of the filibuster, which has skyrocketed in recent years. But less attention has been devoted to how...
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It has been three months since President Barack Obama and the United States took an important step toward leading the world in developing the Copenhagen Accord, a...
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By Adam Bitely On March 31, 2010, the SEIU filed their LM-2 forms required by Federal law. In the quest to provide transparency of what the SEIU is doing, some...
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FolkSense.com was begun in 2007 to make the DARAJA Case public, because no one else would. -- We discovered that US news media (NY Times, Washington Post, LA...
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There is really only one way to stop the collateral murder by our military: stop the wars and bring our troops home. April 7, 2010 | “Let us not become...
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"top Republican officials don't condemn --they line up to appear beside them. Mitt Romney released a statement calling passage of the healthcare legislation...
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After the worst coal mining disaster in at least 25 years, Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship is facing long-overdue scrutiny for his record of putting coal profits...
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"the panel established by Congress to investigate the causes of the financial crisis has been hobbled by delays and internal disagreements and lack of...
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