Washington Liberals

Charter School Moguls Scam State Out of Millions In the latest incident of charter school fraud, the state of Oregon is going after a pair of charter school con men who reportedly scammed the...

From Rolling Stone’s Secret and Lies of the Bailout: Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat from Ohio, remembers a call with Paulson and Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. “We need $700 billion,” they told Brown,...

Winds sweeping through the Great Plains once robbed the Farm Belt of its future, stripping away overworked topsoil and creating the dreaded Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Today, those winds are bringing new hope...

Whereas Senator Rodney Tom ran as a Democrat in 2010 in the 48th Legislative District; and Whereas Senator Tom received over $25,000 from the State Democratic Party and $44,000 in in-kind donations from the...

Rep. Adam Smith voted against the budget deal, saying, it make “getting to a reasonable ten-year plan far more difficult by making permanent 90 percent of the Bush Tax Cuts. By not allowing those...

So that fiscal cliff wasn’t much of a ride, was it? We went over that cliff for a day and a half, and nothing much happened. Then Obama signed the “American Taxpayer Relief Act...

The Wall Street Journal points out that by retaining tax cuts for incomes up to $400,000, “Democrats aren’t just accepting, but embracing and extending, at least 98% of the 2001 Bush tax cuts.” Throughout...

Hurray for the Republicans! They saved us from defeat by defeating themselves. Now President Obama holds all the cards. He should just hold onto them. What about the fiscal cliff? Indeed, what about it?...