Oklahoma Republican Senator Tom Coburn, known as "Dr. No" for opposing basically every non-military spending bill, has used the long Congressional recess to find a new foe -- the 2.5 million federal employees. The Washington Post's Christopher Lee reports that Coburn's office has ...

The New York Times’ Michael Brick does some journalistic assisted suicide, letting the U.S. military hangs itself through professing love for Ultimate Fighting Championship. U.F.C. is a pro league of mixed martial art and jujitsu fighting, what John McCain once called “human cockfighting.”

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It’s Public Service Recognition Week and the Council for Excellence in Government has kicked off the festivities with a survey about the federal bureaucracy. In a poll of 18-to-29-year-olds, apparently also known as millennials, the survey found out that if asked by a parent, teacher, or new president of ...

A team of reporters from the Wall Street Journal has investigated the massive explosion at the Imperial Sugar Co. refinery in Georgia and concluded that a lack of local government inspections, attention from the plants' owners, and federal government oversight combined to create the fireball that ignited on Feb. 7, 2008.  The problem, as Paulo Prada, Betsy McKay and Stephanie Chen write, was "all because of dust."

The Washington Post’s Carol D. Leonnig details a troubling audit by the Interior Dept’s inspector general on unsafe parks, dams, schools and fish hatcheries. For example, there could be dangerous levels of carbon monoxide around a Yosemite Park tunnel. Thirteen schools ...

Last Sunday, the Washington Post took a look at how recently departed Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson ignored the mortgage crisis. Today the New York Times’ Rachel Swarns examines the other key component of Jackson’s dubious legacy—millions in housing contracts to his friends.

The Washington Post’s Josh White reports on a fishy $50 million contract given to Strategic Message Solutions. The company had “barely existed” in 2005, but the contract was given that year “to reward a recently retired four-star general and a millionaire civilian pilot who had ...

The rulings of EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson on key issues, such as denying California a waiver to regulate greenhouse gases, have frustrated members of Congress, state legislatures and environmental groups. They’ve also undermined the scientific findings of his staff. And now, the Washington Post’s Christopher ...

That’s apparently what President Bush thinks, judging from the budget he submitted to Congress. The budget calls for a 3.4 percent increase for members of the military—and a 2.9 percent increase for other federal employees. The Washington Post’s Stephen Barr chronicles Congress’s reaction. Democrats and Republicans are ...

According to the Washington Post, The Department of Homeland Security has elected to end a court battle over the agency's ability to use a "separate personnel system" at DHS, including the right to assign and deploy unionized staff members without informing the National Treasury Employees Union, the union for DHS ...