The inimitable politician John Edwards was acquitted yesterday on one charge of violating campaign finance laws. Federal District Court Judge Catherine Eagles declared a mistrial on the remaining five charges. There’s more to the...
MSNBC just reported: Update, 1:30 p.m. ET: Judge sentences ousted Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich to 14 years in prison for corruption. And here’s one of the many reasons why from the time he was...
Today, a federal jury in Washington D.C. found Alaska Republican Sen. Ted Stevens, 84, guilty of accepting and concealing from Senate financial-disclosure requirements hundreds of thousands of dollars in free home renovations and other...
Thanks to digby at Hullabaloo for reporting that Naomi Klein, author of the books The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and No Logo, spoke yesterday at the University of Chicago about the...
