A New Biography Traces the Pathology of Allen Dulles and His Appalling Cabal
"Unless you believe we’re governed by shape-shifting space lizards — your darkest suspicions about how the world operates are likely an underestimate."
A Glimpse Into the Nightmare Called the C-I-A
(Daily Beast)- Interrogations that lasted for days on end. Detainees forced to stand on broken legs, or go 180 hours in a row without sleep....
Eric Garner’s Death Shows How Stupid Laws Help Get People Killed
(Reason)- After news of the baffling decision by the New York grand jury not to indict a police officer in the killing of Eric Garner,...
Ted Cruz: Regulating the Internet threatens entrepreneurial freedom
(Washington Post)- Never before has it been so easy to turn an idea into a business. With a simple Internet connection, some ingenuity and a...
U.S. Government Extorted Customer Data out of Yahoo! With Back Breaking Fines
(Washington Post)- The U.S. government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day in 2008 if it failed to comply with a broad demand to hand...
It’s Time To Start Preparing Yourself for President Rand Paul
(Vice)- For the past two years, from the moment Ron Paul called off the Revolution and headed back to Texas, the political establishment has been...
Poll: Hillary crushes Democratic rivals. Republicans, not so much
(Christian Science Monitor)- There’s a new poll out Thursday that helps clarify Hillary Rodham Clinton’s actual standing among 2016 presidential hopefuls. The NBC/Marist survey covers only...
Obama may actually have a decent idea to fix America’s Interstates….Now if only Conservative’s would get on board
(Reason)- Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx says the Highway Trust Fund is going to run out of money in August, and President Barack Obama is spending...
Mayor Bill de Blasio Sends a Video Love Letter to the Teachers Union, while screwing Kids and Taxpayers
(Reason)- New York City’s Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) expressed his adoration for the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) in a video tribute that played...
War Hawks hate Rand Paul because he loves Peace too much
(Politico)- If you had any doubts about how seriously some Republicans are taking the notion of a Rand Paul presidency, look at how far they’re...
Whistleblower: The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control
(The Guardian)- William Binney is one of the highest-level whistleblowers to ever emerge from the NSA. He was a leading code-breaker against the Soviet Union...
Meet Sean Haugh, the Libertarian pizza guy who may decide the fate of the U.S. Senate
(Washington Post)- Most evenings, Sean Haugh is a pizza deliveryman. But every other week or so, the Libertarian Party’s Senate nominee in North Carolina opens...
Snowden Latest: NSA collects data on regular people far more than formal targets
(Washington Post)- Ordinary Internet users, American and non-American alike, far outnumber legally targeted foreigners in the communications intercepted by the National Security Agency from U.S....
Bill And Hillary Clinton Earned Over $160 Million After Leaving The White House
(Business Insider)- Hillary Clinton’s family fortune has come under increasing scrutiny in recent weeks following a series of comments she made about her finances while...
Hillary’s Leads Over Jeb Bush and Rand Paul Narrow
(Forbes)- Some pundits suggest that it is good that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is airing her dirty linen and making her campaign mistakes...
U.S. Post Office has lost $2.5 billion over last three decades, deliverying mail to nowhere Alaska
Another example of doing it "The Government Way"
Navy has its first female four-star admiral
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy has its first female four-star admiral. She is Michelle Janine Howard, promoted on Tuesday to the service’s highest rank. The...
McDaniel not giving up GOP runoff against Cochran
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Chris McDaniel has presented no evidence to support his claim that voter fraud pushed Senate incumbent Thad Cochran to victory in...
House alters reporting of lawmakers’ free trips
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is no longer requiring lawmakers to report some free trips they take on the annual forms they file about their...
Ex-Sen. Baker remembered for crossing the aisle
HUNTSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Former Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr. was remembered Tuesday for his ability to bridge political divides in Washington while...
House reduces reporting of lawmakers’ free trips
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is no longer requiring lawmakers to report some free trips they take on the annual forms they file about their...
Baker funeral being held in Tennessee hometown
HUNTSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The funeral for former Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr. is getting underway in his rural Tennessee hometown near the...
House devises no-tell-all policy for member travel
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is no longer requiring lawmakers to report some free trips they take on the annual forms they file about their...
Court to hear church’s appeal of sign restrictions
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will decide whether an Arizona town violates the First Amendment by restricting where and when a church can place...
Jill Biden on weeklong tour of 3 African countries
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden, the wife of Vice President Joe Biden, is on a tour of three African countries, where she will highlight female...
Kerry asks Central America for help on immigration
PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is calling for Central American nations to work with the Obama administration to curb...
Envoy says Iraq can’t wait for US military aid
WASHINGTON (AP) — Iraq’s ambassador to the United States says his country turned to other nations for military support to fight a growing insurgency because...
Crossroads books $20M in TV ads for 6 Senate races
WASHINGTON (AP) — Political groups backed by Karl Rove want another $20 million in television air time. American Crossroads super PAC and its affiliated nonprofit...
Justices to take up pregnancy discrimination case
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will take up the pregnancy discrimination claims of a package delivery driver for UPS who was refused a light...
Justices act in other health law mandate cases
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has left in place lower court rulings in favor of businesses that object to covering all methods of government-approved...
Obama to promote fixing bridges, highways
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is mixing a little Fourth of July patriotism with a pitch to fix the nation’s bridges and highways. For...
More US troops to Iraq, raising total to about 750
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is sending another 300 troops to Iraq to increase security at the U.S. Embassy and elsewhere in the Baghdad area...
Birth control ruling sparks political clash
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans say they’ve won an election-year victory from a Supreme Court ruling that allows some companies to opt out of providing contraception...
Candidates fill inboxes with fundraising appeals
WASHINGTON (AP) — Campaign fundraising emails have clogged inboxes across America over the last few weeks as Monday’s Federal Election Commission deadline for candidates to...
Kerry: Time running short for Iran nuke agreement
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry says time is running out for Iran to negotiate a comprehensive agreement on its nuclear program. In...
Obama to expand safeguards for transgender workers
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he plans to sign an executive order formally protecting transgender federal workers from discrimination at work. While mostly...
Obama hosts annual LGBT Pride Month celebration
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is thanking friends and colleagues who he says have supported and guided his administration on same-sex issues and equality...
US sending 300 more US troops to Iraq
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is sending another 300 troops to Iraq to beef up security at the U.S. Embassy and elsewhere in the Baghdad...
Obama sending 200 more US troops to Iraq
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he’s sending about 200 more U.S. troops to Iraq to protect Americans and the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad....
Drone access to US skies faces significant hurdles
WASHINGTON (AP) — A government watchdog says the federal effort to provide drones regular access to U.S. skies faces significant hurdles and won’t meet a...
Obama condemns terror against teens in Mideast
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is condemning what he calls a “senseless act of terror against innocent youth” in the Mideast and offering U.S....
Pension agency says plans for 1.5 million at risk
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal agency says that that despite an improving economy, retirement plans covering roughly 1.5 million U.S. workers are severely underfunded, threatening...
Student loan interest rates to increase
WASHINGTON (AP) — Interest rates go up Tuesday for students taking out new federal loans. This hike is relatively minimal but could foreshadow more increases...
Mourners pay respects to Sen. Howard Baker Jr.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Mourners are paying their respects to former Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr. at the University of Tennessee center in Knoxville that...
GOP target Pryor surviving TV attacks in Arkansas
WARREN, Arkansas (AP) — Television ads have relentlessly attacked Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor for more than a year, and not even his famous name is...
Documents: Blackwater guards were out of control
WASHINGTON (AP) — A newly disclosed memo reveals a warning by a State Department investigator that contractors for Blackwater Worldwide saw themselves as above the...
Obama says US supporting Chilean solar power plant
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Monday that the United States wants to help Chile build Latin America’s largest solar power plant. Obama touted...
McAllister changes course, will seek re-election
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Vance McAllister announced Monday that he’s changed his mind and intends to run for re-election despite the...
Obama says US supporting Chilean solar power plan
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says the United States will support the construction of a solar power plant in Chile. Obama was meeting in...
Obama seeks power to return immigrant children
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is asking Congress for increased powers to send unaccompanied children from Central American back from the U.S. border to...