Friday Talking Points [133] -- The Silly Season Begins
August in Washington means the beginning of the official "silly season" of politics. This is because Congress takes the whole month off, and politica...
August in Washington means the beginning of the official "silly season" of politics. This is because Congress takes the whole month off, and politica...
L.A. Times | David G. Savage | Posted 05.25.2011
Reporting from Washington - The Patriot Act -- a favorite tool in the George W. Bush administration's fight against terrorism -- may be renamed later...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
Rep. Jerry Nadler, a senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, called Monday for the impeachment of federal judge Jay Bybee, one of the princi...
Lou Dubose | Posted 05.25.2011
The Bush Administration shielded itself from anti-torture laws, but prohibitions on torture aren't so easily circumvented-- they live on the books here and overseas and without statutes of limitation.
LA Times | Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar | Posted 05.25.2011
When Rudolph W. Giuliani was diagnosed with prostate cancer in the spring of 2000, one thing he did not have to worry about was a lack of medical insu...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011