The Department of Homeland Security has had a large number of security breaches over the last recorded period. Chief Information Officer Scott Charbo comes from a background in ... . agriculture. Why is someone with a degree in biology running the DHS IT department?

The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently released their reports on inflation and real wages for May, along with the usual recap of recent trends for those figures.

We're addicted to partisanship, and afraid to break the cycle. Why?

On Tuesday, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) reported its analysis of the drinking water system in some of the military housing areas on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina: people living in those areas have been exposed to high levels of tetrachloroethylene from 1957 through 1987.

The results of a recent Gallup Poll reinforce the idea that the Republican Party is rapidly becoming the anti-science party by virtue of becoming the God Party.

Conservatives in the government and media are still up in arms about Scooter Libby's sentence for deceiving the Special Prosecutor.

The DOJ stonewalling on the US Attorney firings and/or the use of the DOJ to affect election results (it's unclear whether those are separate issues or two strands of the same issue) seems to be starting to unravel as more and more DOJ officials testify and contradict each other and claim approval by other DOJ officials. Yesterday, Bradley Schlozman, former interim US Attorney in Missouri, as well as the former head of the Justice Department's civil rights division, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The debate over sex education in the schools is, like most issues in 21st century America, more like a battle than a debate. The April, 2007 publication of a congressionally-funded study of abstinence programs has set off another flurry of skirmishes, leading one newspaper editorial writer to call Henry Waxman, the Democratic congressman from California who is the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, "abstinence-phobic."

Arkansas GOP party chair Dennis Milligan says we need more attacks on US soil to "wake us up" to the good job Bush has done. Isn't this a little dichotomous?

According to the Monthly reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the US economy gained a net of almost half a million jobs in the third quarter of 2006. Then BLS issued its aggregate quarterly report earlier this month, titled "BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT DYNAMICS: THIRD QUARTER 2006."

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