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Issa: Holder protecting staff over ‘Fast and Furious’ Conceived by the Phoenix Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives — a Justice Department agency — Fast and Furious began in November 2009 after calls by Justice officials to focus resources on Mexican drug cartel leaders rather than low-level straw buyers. At [...]

Why Do Liberals Keep Sanitizing the Obama Story? Tellingly, as Chait writes for affluent urban liberals who railed against the Bush Administration’s excesses in the War on Terrorism, he neither desires nor feels compelled to grapple with President Obama’s approach to foreign policy, national security, or homeland security. Well no. Of course liberals keep sanitizing [...]

Pelosi fires back at ’60 Minutes’ report on ‘soft corruption’ House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband bought shares in VISA shortly before Nancy Pelosi voted on the Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights. That legislation limited credit card companies’ ability to manage their own risk in lending.  Meaning that instead of assessing each debtor’s risk profile and [...]

Amazon Just Became A Little More Like Wal-Mart, And A Little More Evil Amazon now supports an internet sales tax. Just your garden-variety corporatism. Nothing to use the word evil about. Let’s see what we have here. Totally bogus, opposite-of-what-it-is name for the legislation? Check. It’s called the Marketplace Fairness Act. Hilarious. Bipartisan support? Check. So basically, [...]