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Where Are the Watchdogs?
Faced with record deficits and expanding federal responsibilities, politicians from President Barack Obama on down routinely talk about the need for transparency and accountability in government. At the same …
National Day of Prayer Violates Establishment Clause
Today, as mandated by federal law, is the National Day of Prayer. It may be the last. In 1952, evangelist Billy Graham led a six week religious campaign in …
Tapping Into the Power of Your Own Stem Cells (2)
Stem cells have been at the center of some of the bitterest controversies as well as some of the most promising medical discoveries, and yet little has been done …
Will We Keep Hating Government?
Washington - Ever heard the one about the guy who hated government until a deregulated Wall Street crashed, an oil spill devastated the Gulf of Mexico, a coal mine …
Rachel Maddow: FAIR’s Relationship With Arizona’s Immigration Law (VIDEO)
Rachel Maddow: FAIR’s Relationship With Arizona’s Immigration Law
Oil Spill Gives Urgency to UN Oceans Meet
Paris - The disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has given increased urgency to the fifth Global Oceans Conference taking place here at the United Nations Educational, …
Regulatory Failures Aided Financial Crisis, Paulson, Geithner to Tell FCIC Panel
Watch the hearing live on C-SPAN here. Washington - The inability of regulators and Congress to keep up with new products in financial markets helped trigger the nation's …
When Reform Is a Slippery Slope
Phoenix - “What's the matter with Arizona?” is the obvious question about the state's new immigration law. There are a few obvious answers — and a not-so-obvious one that …
What Do We Owe the Wrongfully Convicted?
On April 28th, 46-year-old Frank Sterling became a free man after spending 18 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Sterling was cleared of a 1988 murder …
David Ignatius: CIA’s Senior Apologist Strikes Again
David Ignatius, The Washington Post's self-appointed apologist for the Central Intelligence Agency, has struck again.