At the Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual gathering of conservatives, few speakers left the stage without a fair amount of hand-wringing.
Kyle D. Foggo, the executive director at the C.I.A. from 2004 to 2006, was sentenced to 37 months in prison for steering a clandestine contract to a close friend.
Supporters of stem-cell research said they had reintroduced a Senate bill that would allow federal financing for human embryonic stem-cell research, in anticipation of President Obama’s support for the work.
If anyone still has doubts that the natural tendency of governments is to always inflate the currency, they should consider that we now talk freely of annual federal deficits in the trillions of dollars. Thirty or forty years ago, annual federal deficits of twenty or thirty billion were considered shocking. The cumulative federal debt is now over sixty trillion dollars. This debt is greater than the entire world GDP!
The charges would move the case of the only enemy combatant to be held on U.S. soil, Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, into a civilian criminal court.
A pair of liberal groups are launching an ad campaign portraying Republicans as an obstructionist party.
Americans United for Chance and AFSCME press their attempt to cast Republicans as rooting for failure.
The Senate Intelligence Committee plans to review the C.I.A.’s detention and interrogation program, another sign that lawmakers want an accounting of controversial Bush administration programs.
The 134-page budget snapshot gives a clear indication of who gets the elevator, and who gets the shaft.
Obama turns to a predictable revenue enhancer.