David Edwards and Daniel Tencer

In the wake of the White House dinner gate-crashing controversy, some Republican members of Congress are showing an unexpected amount of concern for the president’s safety. But if the words of Rep. Peter King (R-NY) are anything to go by, it may all just be a ploy for a political attack on a White House [...]

If passed as it is, the financial reform bill winding its way through Congress will create a “permanent bailout mechanism,” and will give complete control over future bailouts to the White House, says columnist Matt Taibbi.
In a video preview of an upcoming Rolling Stone article, Taibbi explained how the Obama administration started selling out to [...]

The hosts of Fox News’ Fox & Friends seem to believe that President Obama’s frequent use of the word “unprecedented” could be big political trouble for the White House.
Echoing a Politico article that one media watchdog described as a “dreamed up” attack on the president, Fox reported that President Barack Obama has reportedly used the [...]

Thirty Thai men who were “tricked into a life of forced labor” after being promised lucrative jobs in the United States are just one symptom of the problem of modern-day slavery, CNN reported Monday.
According to the State Department, there are as many as 200,000 forced laborers in the US, with some 17,500 arriving every year.
“This [...]

Mark Sanford, the South Carolina governor whose affair with an Argentinian woman made headlines earlier this year, is facing ethics charges because he “weirded out” South Carolina lawmakers with his story of extra-marital love, says MSNBC guest host Lawrence O’Donnell.
Filling in for Rachel Maddow on Monday night’s Rachel Maddow Show, O’Donnell opined: “Seems to me [...]