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The NSA surveillance (issue? - can this be called a scandal?) along with the aggressive investigations of leakers, whistleblowers and the jo...

This could a fun read .

I just stumbled across this .

Something to chew on today. Congressional Quarterly provides daily updates on major activity in Congress. This gives us some context for cla...

it seems to be getting easier .

Details from the New York Times .

The company is accused of packaging mortgage bonds they thought were likely to fail into a single portfolio, selling it to investors, and t...

But an appellate court, so the SC has yet to rule. This limits the jurisdiction of the FCC , so file it under checks and balances.

From the Texas Tribune . Texas Speaker Joe Straus has named members of the Texas Sunset Committee for 2010. Texas Sunset Commission .

While putting notes together for this week's 2302 review of contemporary executive branch issues (I want to look at health care) I stumb...

Not all policy is set by Congress. Once an executive agency is established, it has discretion -- within limits ultimately defined by the Sup...

For 2302, some info about presidential advising as we wade into the executive branch: - Measures may have staved off collapse - 'Mr. Pre...

Charles Kuffner updates us on a conflict between the Obama White House and our Texas Senators regarding two federal judicial vacancies in ...

Charlie Cook says, not as much as you think , and its best to think small. The problem is that there's lots that needs doing: A breathta...

Stuart Taylor, writing for Newsweek says so : President George W. Bush ought to pardon any official from cabinet secretary on down who mig...

It may well be that l ending isn't just tight, it's non existent : The desperate worry over the health of huge financial institution...

Technology may be unkind to history, or our ability to hold onto it. From an NYT editorial: After watching wholesale lots of the Bush admin...

Here is a link to the Esquire story that led to the resignation of the U.S. Central Command, Admiral William Fox. While discussing the exec...

Before too much time elapses, here are links to comments on the President's Final State of the Union Speech. Q & A's from the Wa...

After watching stocks tank around the world yesterday, while the markets took a day off due to MLK Day, the Federal Reserve attempted to to ...