Author: Dean Pajevic

Via Arms and Influence: … Congress shoved the budget for the Department of State under the massive Department of Defense section of the budget. That’s more than a slap in the face for State, which should stand as a...

Ken Tomlinson, head of the Corp. for Public Broadcasting, “came under fire” at a Senate panel Monday for secretly monitoring public TV and radio programs, reports Democracy Now!, which aired excerpts: [Tomlinson paid...

MSNBC CSPAN2 is carrying it live. Pesky David is asking Scottie more questions about Karl. In an online chat today, WaPo’s Dana Milbank was asked, “What odds would you give at this point that this will lead to...

We often mention Niger’s uranium, but rarely discuss the 1.2 million people without food in the country. Valerie, a blogger in France, hopes we’ll publicize Niger’s food crisis. Today, U.N. News announced that...

“[T]he federal government has carved out this division of labor that says that when it comes to federal resources, it really is being put in the war on terror overseas, and states and locals need to fend for...