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The Washington Independent is a fleet-footed webpaper of politics and policy. We are the ink-stained wretches of the digital era. We aim for snap-crackle-pop reporting in our articles and blog posts all working together to tell a bigger story. We provide thought-provoking commentary from insightful experts. We write to record scenes from the passing show, to stir things up and to keep the bastards honest. We seek to explore and define our nation and the context for our times. The Washington Independent belongs to a network of state-based online news sites founded by the ... More » (Source: Washington Independent)
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Anatomy of an Ethics Leak
(Blog Post) The news that “dozens” of House lawmakers are under scrutiny by ethics investigators — reported last night by The Washington Post — will likely stir a small storm in ... -
Senators Slog While Unemployed Suffer
A protracted and very partisan Senate skirmish has left hundreds of thousands of jobless Americans without unemployment benefits — an impasse that Democrats leaders are ... -
Tea Party Patrons Point New Recruits Toward 2010
For months, liberal researchers from the Center for American Progress to Firedoglake to the Rachel Maddow Show have pored over the financial records of libertarian tycoon ... -
Experts Weigh in on Obama’s Explanation of Iran’s Nuclear Facility
Flanked by the French president and the British premier, President Obama on Friday dramatically stated that the “size and configuration” of a previously undisclosed ... -
Supreme Court Eyes Decades of Campaign Finance Laws
The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear arguments in a case that could reverse major gains made in recent decades to reduce the influence of corporate money on federal ... -
Feingold Set to Oppose Further Troop Boost for Afghanistan
“I don’t think the case has been effectively made for continuing to send more and more troops into Afghanistan,” Feingold said in a Wednesday interview. “I am very ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Gun Rights Advocates Hope to Flip Red-State Dems on Sotomayor
For Republicans and many movement conservatives, the key moment of the first day of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings was not the blistering ... -
Republicans Test 2010 Message: Cancel the Stimulus
The day after President Obama signed the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) took to the airwaves to offer voters a different kind of new ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Obama’s Sideline Strategy May Signal Shift in U.S. Democracy Policy
It turned out money couldn’t buy a revolution. After the 2005 election of hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Bush administration sought about $75 million ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Supreme Court Detainee Decision May Not Block Suits Against Top Officials
In denying the right of a Muslim Pakistani immigrant to sue former Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI director Robert Mueller for his prolonged imprisonment and harsh ...Posted by Derek Hawkins
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Conservatives Rework Rhetoric After Loss in NY Special
Jim Kelly walked into the lounge of the Hotel Saranac, his red tie undone and flapping against his shirt. He sighed. He plopped into a chair. “Four thousand votes,” he ... -
No Afghanistan ‘Checkposts’ Abandoned While Pak Military Offensive Proceeds ?
"A piece in the Pakistan paper the News accused the U.S. military of taking the inexplicable step of abandoning “checkposts” on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border while the ...Posted by Emma Asomba -
Finance Committee Dems Are No Rubber Stamp for Health Reform
With so much speculation on whether Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) will support the health reform bill finalized by the Senate Finance Committee last week, the world might be ...Posted by margaret draper -
Clinton: Not ‘Either/Or’ Between Negotiating With Iran and Supporting Dissidents «
Asked at the George Washington University forum about whether the Obama administration was effectively undermining the Iranian opposition by negotiating with the Iranian ...Posted by Cynthia Gilbert -
» Latino Leaders Riled by Role of Immigration in Health Care Debate
Current proposals could even prevent legal immigrants from obtaining health care. -
Grayson, POGO Use ACORN Defunding Push to Go After Military Contractors
Ryan Grim has the story, I have stifled guffaws. Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) picked up on the legislative overreach and asked the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) to sift ...Posted by Ben Ross -
Memos Suggest Legal Cherry-Picking in Justifying Torture
On the same day that the government produced the 2004 CIA Inspector General’s report on interrogations, it also turned over seven more memos and letters from the Justice ... -
Obtained: The RNC’s Health Care Survey
I just chatted with Raymond Denny, the La Center, Washington man who received the RNC’s “2009 Future of American Health Survey,” which alleged that President Obama’s ...Posted by Lee Callister -
Conservatives Find Town Hall Strategy in Leftist Text
Protesters outside a health care town hall meeting held by Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) in Tampa last Thursday (YouTube) Michael Patrick Leahy’s self-published conservative ... -
Blackwater Heir Wants to Keep State Dept. Security Contract
Even as a wrongful-death lawsuit moves forward against the controversial private security company formerly known as Blackwater, the firm seeks to renew its contract with the ...
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