Losing money is embarrassing. And an embarrassed Jamie Dimon publicly admitted that J.P. Morgan Chase goofed. Three senior executives lost their jobs as a result. But politicians and regulators in Washington are rushing to leverage the bank's misfortune for their own gain.

Tom Miller's contributions to the ROA's DEF on the Affordable Care Act Supreme Court hearings.

Tom Miller's contributions to the ROA's DEF on the Affordable Care Act Supreme Court hearings.

The institution of science has no place for hiding data, shaping data to conform to pre-existing beliefs,undermining the peer-review process, or any other of the shady activities that the Hadley Center Climate Research Unit scientists allegedly engaged in.

With the threat of a veto hanging over its head, the National Defense Authorization bill heads to the House floor today for debate. Among the provisions are several dealing with the question of a nuclear weapons armed Iran, and what the United States should do to avert a crisis, prepare to handle the threat, or eliminate the threat altogether.

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General David H. Petraeus, commander of Multi-National Force-Iraq, and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan C. Crocker will testify tomorrow, Tuesday, April 8, 2008, and Wednesday, April 9, 2008, on the situation in Iraq. In

The investigative oversight we have seen so far, which has dominated the early stages of the 110th Congress, still has to be matched by more garden variety oversight of programs.

A lack ofindependent legislative authority, and the sense of Congress as a subsidiary body to the presidency, is much stronger in this Republican Congress than in three and a half decades.