Between 2008 and 2012, the federal government paid $22 million in crop-insurance payments to some 3,400 farmers who had been dead for at least two years, according to an investigation by the federal government’s watchdog, the Government Accountability Office. Under another program, the Agriculture Department paid out $10.6 million in …
Did you ever have a recurring nightmare, the kind that picks right up the next night exactly where it had left off? If not, you will. With Congress back on Capitol Hill, a rally is expected to draw thousands of people today to commemorate Sept. 11, which we all recognize …
To Republicans, every economic problem facing the country can be traced back to a common cause: government. If we suffer the greatest financial crisis in 80 years, it’s because government over-regulated. If jobs are coming back too slowly, it’s because government taxes too much. If more and more jobs in …
From Politico: “Harry Reid is ready to go nuclear. After months of quiet lobbying, Democratic sources say the powerful Senate majority leader is ready to invoke the “nuclear option” to limit the use of the filibuster on executive branch nominations as early as next week. The move could have dramatic …
Many of you may be aware of the growing legend of Wendy Davis, the 50-year-old state senator from Texas who for almost 11 hours on Tuesday single-handedly filibustered an anti-abortion bill in the Texas Legislature. Like legislation in Georgia, Washington, D.C. and other jurisdictions, the bill would have barred abortions …
House Republican leaders held a news conference on the Capitol grounds Wednesday to publicize their political outreach to the Latino community. As it happened, the Tea Party was holding an anti-immigration rally not far away, featuring speakers such as Ted Cruz, Glenn Beck, Michele Bachmann and Georgia’s own Jack Kingston. …
So now we know about PRISM, as the Washington Post describes it: The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track foreign targets, …
Al Gore calls it “obscenely outrageous.” That may be an understatement. According to secret documents published by Britain’s Guardian newspaper, the U.S. government has demanded and is receiving information about every cell phone call placed and received by millions of its citizens. There is no pretense whatsoever of “reasonable cause” …
In a major foreign-policy speech at the National Defense University Thursday, President Obama warned that trying to fight a perpetual war on terror “will prove self-defeating, and alter our country in troubling ways.” Given our progress in dismantling al Qaeda and its allies, he asked Congress to strip him of …
I have a feeling that this is only the tip of a rather large iceberg: “A Florida Republican charged with reaching out to his fellow Hispanics during the 2012 election announced Monday he was switching parties. Pablo Pantoja, a Puerto Rico native who was hired by the RNC as its …
Begining in 2010 and continuing for more than two years, the IRS targeted non-profit applications from Tea Party and other groups deemed to be anti-government for additional scrutiny, including demands for contributor and membership lists. There’s a lot that we don’t know yet. Did the effort begin due to legitimate …
In Bangladesh, almost 400 people have been officially declared dead in the collapse of an eight-story factory building housing five clothing operations. With many, many bodies still unrecovered, the stench of rotting flesh rising and roughly 1,000 workers still missing, it is all too easy to imagine the final death …