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The ethics of House members are frequently used as a punchline. Or a headline. This week, it was Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-NY, on trial. In coming weeks, it will be Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif. Their alleged wrongdoings were among many investigated and uncovered by the Office of Congressional...

Lawyers for the federal government said that Canada is on the brink of launching an "unprecedented" social experiment if three key prostitution laws are lifted this Saturday. The government is appearing in the Ontario Court of Justice on Monday to seek a delay in the end of those laws. If...

Who says Congress never gets anything done? On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a bill that would give the Attorney General the right to shut down websites with a court order if copyright infringement is deemed “central to the activity” of the site — regardless if...

YouTube - German 'Fleshmob' strips off to protest airport body scans German ‘Fleshmob’ Protests Airport Scanners The underwear bomber’s Christmas Day attack has prompted calls for the increased use of full-body scanners at airports that would strip-search...

Freshman GOPer: Hey, Where's My Health Care? Maryland physician Andy Harris (R) just soundly defeated Frank Kratovil, one of the most endangered Democrats on Capitol Hill going into the November election. And he did it in large part by railing against 'Obamacare' and pledging to repeal Health...

As the United States and China battle over the finer points of currency manipulation at the G-20 summit, American negotiators may want to take note of this startling testimonial to the productivity of Chinese workers: A construction crew in the south-central Chinese city of Changsha has...

Moving to plug the defection of staff to competitors, Google Inc. is giving a 10% raise to all of its 23,000 employees, according to people familiar with the matter. The raise, which will be given to executives and staff across the globe, is effective in January. Mr. Schmidt wrote that...

(Reuters) - Nearly 59 million Americans went without health insurance coverage for at least part of 2010, many of them with conditions or diseases that needed treatment, federal health officials said on Tuesday. They said 4 million more Americans went without insurance in the first part of...

U.S. Representative John Shimkus, possible future chairman of the Congressional committee that deals with energy and its attendant environmental concerns, believes that climate change should not concern us since God has already promised not to destroy the Earth...

You no longer need to travel to distant and dangerous countries to observe such rapacious inequality. We now have it right here at home — and in the aftermath of Tuesday’s election, it may get worse. The richest 1 percent of Americans now take home almost 24 percent of income, up from almost...

Really good back and forth that puts into perspective both sides on a wide spectrum of issues. I've been checking out all of these electoral debates, but this one seemed to have the most appropriate representation of each party's reason d'etre. C-SPAN Video Player - Tonight's Campaign...

Guess who's ba-aaack. Bin Laden uses Pakistani floods to drum up support - Yahoo! News

Rick Sanchez: Jon Stewart Is A Bigot And CNN Is Run By Jews

Right now, I know very little about this.. and that is precisely why I created this thread. I can say that in all fairness this will be a race between Ford and Smitherman. That said, there is no official break-down of each of their campaign promises. All the media outlets are giving us news...

"Canada’s oil resources will be second only to Saudi Arabia’s and economically invaluable, since wind, solar and hydrogen technologies still won’t be able to meet the world’s energy needs." “(T)he stresses that will be very apparent in other parts of the world by 2050 — like coastal inundation...

I think the research on climate change (especially in the Arctic) is already pretty substantial - we may not need to put any tax dollars toward this hub. I wonder if this is just a way to cover up the fact that we're not reducing emissions, while giving us a reason to have a stake in the...

I did a search and didn't find anything. Anyway, I thought this would be the perfect forum for this, as we have so many people proclaiming themselves to be right, left, inside and out. This is by no means, definitive, but try it anyway. The Political Compass - Test Here's my result...