By Dan Nguyen, ProPublica
In the next few weeks, among the most talked-about legislation will be the Stop Online Piracy Act — commonly referred to as SOPA...
Colbert (Briefly) Breaks Character in Testimony...
Stephen Colbert mostly yucked it up during his congressional testimony today, but towards the end, Democrat Judy Chu actually got him to break his faux-pundit...
Bush beats Obama's deficit spending by 5 to 1, but...
Because front-running GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney keeps harping on President Obama's deficit spending, Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein teamed...
What Is SOPA - Stop Online Piracy Act (VIDEOS)
Beginning earlier this morning at midnight, Wednesday, January 18, 2012 some major Internet companies did something historical - by going dark for 24 hours as...
Who is (and isn't) covering SOPA, PIPA and the Jan....
By Josh Sternberg current.com contributor UPDATE, 11:15 p.m. ET: There’s a little less than an hour to go until the sites protesting SOPA...
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5 There seems to be a lot of confusion out there on the NDAA "Indefinite Detention" law. I found this great source and wanted to share. I can't post it...
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6 An edited video of Carl Levin claiming that Obama wanted the language in the NDAA caused outrage among many Americans, but the full Levin video reveals the opposite....
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7 Los Angeles Times... . PHOTO: Congress removed wolves in Montana and Idaho from the protection of the Endangered Species Act in April. (Associated Press) ....
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8 A coal-industry astroturf group is running a public campaign to harass Pennsylvania State University climate scientist Michael Mann for his “radical...
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9 WASHINGTON -- A liberal super PAC is set Monday to launch what it is billing as a multimillion dollar campaign to "Take Down the Tea Party Ten." The...
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10 Bill Moyer is the executive director of the Backbone Campaign. http://blip.tv/the-punk-patriot/meet-a-professional-activist-bill-moyer-5912086
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11 ConocoPhillips earned $12.4 billion profit in 2011, making big gains from rising oil prices. Its fourth-quarter earnings jumped 66 percent — $3.4 billion...
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12 Last night during an appearance on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Massachusetts senatorial candidate Elizabeth Warren explained why the federal government no longer...
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13 In the final State of the Union message President Barack Obama will deliver this term, he came out swinging against the obstructionism of Republicans in Congress, and...
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14 Congressional Republicans are now openly acting as advocates for foreign oil interests, colluding with TransCanada lobbyists to push their tar sands agenda. House and...
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15 I spent Friday morning sitting on a wooden bench in a fourth-floor courtroom in the New York Criminal Court in Manhattan. I was waiting to be sentenced for...
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16 On Wednesday, President Barack Obama announced his administration was denying an application by the TransCanada Corporation to build a tar sands pipeline between...
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17 In a Congressionally mandated report on the reasons for rejecting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the Department of State concludes that the Keystone XL tar sands...
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18 President Obama's overall approval rating now stands at 47 percent, according to a new CBS News/New York Times Poll, showing little change in the country's...
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19 The widespread Internet blackout Wednesday, in which sites such as Wikipedia and Reddit went dark to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect...
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20 PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability...
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