June 15, 2007 -
The Department of Justice's dubious crusade against "voter fraud" -- which despite looking at millions of votes since 2002 has only netted 24 fraud convictions -- isn't just a federal issue.
June 15, 2007 -
For those like us and TPM Muckraker that have been following the DOJ attorney scandal for some time, we've established what the Justice Department has largely failed to do in recent years -- namely, enforce voting rights, especially for African-Amer
June 14, 2007 -
The nuclear industry likes to promote itself as a clean energy source -- a message that's a key theme in its current public-relations offensive promoting its product as the environmentally benign alternative to dirty coal-fir
June 14, 2007 -
We reported recently about the controversy over President Bush's nomination of Mississippi judge Leslie Southwick to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
June 14, 2007 -
Oh, wait. Wrong generation. This generation is more likely to be wearing ear buds for their iPods and toting a Blackberry or a text messaging cellphone to Bonnaroo, the South's premier music and arts festival that kicks off tonight in Manchester, Tennessee.
June 13, 2007 -
We reported last week on the unsealing of a federal whistle-blower lawsuit filed in Louisiana by former insurance adjusters alleging that eight insurance companies defrauded the National Flood Insurance Program out of potentially billions of dollars by misattributing property damage cause
June 13, 2007 -
In a recent debate on North Carolina Public Radio, N.C. Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue (D) insisted that there are "no downsides" to her plan of expanding military bases and defense industries in the state. I disagreed, citing the Institute's recent report North Carolina at War, which documents the social, economic and other costs of being "the most military-friendly state in the nation."