EXCLUSIVEBachmann To Launch Campaign From Iowa On Monday
In a primary race which should be about electability more than anything else, no candidate appears very electable.
How many dangerous individuals could we have locked up permanently and taken off our streets over the last 33 years if we hadn't executed 13 people?
Despite the oil industry's attempts to steer the public's frustration to a few predictable scapegoats, the facts simply don't support our continued coddling of the world's most profitable industry.
This week, the nation's mayors, desperate for dollars to keep their cities afloat, demanded: we want our money back!
If you're following the story of whether President Obama will nominate Elizabeth Warren to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, you've probably heard that Republicans found a way to block even a recess appointment. It turns out that's mistaken.
If you thought that insurers just threw a dart at a board to deny a claim, you would be wrong. According to a recent report, fighting back when you have a health insurance claim denied is well worth your time.
The current restrictions on gun sales have proved ineffective. How many more avoidable tragedies must we witness before we, as a nation, take substantive action to solve this problem?
It is quite difficult to identify America today with any of the early commonwealths which our Founders sought so diligently to emulate. Regrettably, there may be more in common with the Roman empire, whose decline and fall Edward Gibbon so brilliantly documented.
In a culture where many people still believe that "enforcing the law" and "removing people" are exactly the same, John Morton's new memo is likely to shake some things up.
As is the case with any legislation, there is room for improvement in the Affordable Care Act. Specifically, we should eliminate the IPAB, a board of unelected officials responsible for making cuts to Medicare.
War is only war, it seems, when Americans are dying, when we die. When only they, the Libyans, die, it is something else for which there is as yet apparently no name.
Over the course of four days in the nexus of Netroots Nation and RightOnline, one Huffington Post employee spent more time with the conservatives -- and nothing bad happened.
Only a tiny fraction of the many billions spent on public education is invested at the early end of the spectrum. We are missing a prime opportunity, one that we cannot afford to waste.
I've never been a believer in reincarnation, but today I've got my fingers crossed that, if it exists, Justice Scalia and the others in the Wal-mart majority come back in their next lives as Wal-mart women.
Our hope is not based in logical analyses or in political timelines; ours is a hope rooted in a loving God who promises to rescue His people and to give them a beautiful future.
If you believe Justice Scalia, who wrote for the Supreme Court's majority opinion in yesterday's Wal-Mart ruling, there is "no convincing proof of a companywide discriminatory pay and promotion policy." Tell that to all the women who have worked for Wal-Mart.
In this exclusive interview Jarrett gives the White House view on what it's doing to blunt the GOP on the issue of jobs and the economy.
If Paul Ryan has any positive quality at all, it is his ability fully to disclose the aspirations under the surface of GOP rhetoric. He shows us the authoritarian streak of this party that clamors so loudly about freedom.
There is some "appearance-based superficiality" in our presidential election process. Here are nine American presidents who would not be electable today.
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Rep. Charles Rangel, 2011.06.21
