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There are two senators who’ve accused Justice Department attorneys who represented Guantanamo detainees of sympathizing with terrorists: Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)

I turned down a (very polite) request to appear on one of Pajamas Media’s online shows last week. Why? This is why. The crucial bit, if you don’t want

So one of the so-called Gitmo Nine Justice Department lawyers attacked by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is Tony West. West, the

Jeremy Scahill, journalism’s most dogged investigator of the privatized military, reports that the State Department’s Worldwide Personal Protective Services

Interesting news from the Pew Hispanic Center: Immigrants gained 656,000 jobs in the year after the recession officially ended in June 2009, while native-born

This is pretty unbelievable. Rex Rammell, a longshot candidate for the 2010 GOP gubernatorial nomination in Idaho (longtime pol Butch Otter, a fellow

On Oct. 14, Wells Fargo, which holds the second largest number of bank deposits in the U.S., will begin testing a $3 monthly fee for debit cards in New Mexico and four other states. The fee applies to all cardholders and will be triggered if you use the debit card for online or in-person purchases.

Several 2012 GOP candidates have released official statements following this morning’s announcement by former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty that his campaign would be ending on its third place finish at the Ames Straw Poll. “Tim Pawlenty and his entire team ran an honorable campaign,” said former Massachusetts Gov.

Colorado Congressman Ed Perlmutter today defended his decision to go against the Colorado Democratic Party and vote with the state’s GOP majority in supporting Republican Cory Gardner’s controversial Jobs and Energy Permitting Act (H.R. 2021). Rep.

Building a Better Ohio, a group formed to support anti-collective bargaining legislation that will go before voters in November via a veto referendum known as

Many undocumented immigrants without criminal records who are up for deportation will be allowed to indefinitely stay in the United States and apply for work

A few months ago, Congressman Jared Polis told the Colorado Independent that he thought it would take a majority of states legalizing medical marijuana or otherwise liberalizing their laws before Congress would be likely to do anything at the federal level.

I spent the weekend at the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot in Kentucky, where it was not hard to find and buy Third Reich memorabilia, so this, about the man who

As Sen. John McCain continues to tout offshore drilling -- and others in Congress start to jump on the bandwagon -- he’s found it necessary to downplay the

The New York State Education Department (NYSED) and its Board of Regents has made preliminary steps in satisfying the federal government’s grant of roughly

About 200 people, representing a diverse array of organizations and unions, marched in Miami on Tuesday to demand accountability from Bank of America and to support the Occupy Miami movement . The protest came on the same day the Bank of America announced it is dropping a controversial proposal to charge $5 for using debit card use. The march originated at the Greater Bethel AME Church in Overtown, a historically black neighborhood, met with members of Occupy Miami, camped out in what they call Peace City, and arrived at the downtown building of Bank of America

The Justice Department has brought charges against a Pennsylvania woman whose internet handle is Jihad Jane. Her actual name is Colleen LaRose, and she’s

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) continues to make the case to the Obama administration that he can deliver the Senate votes to close the detention facility at

Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney has struggled to win over social-conservative primary campaign voters , but he recently took up the hard-core anti-abortion, anti-birth control, anti-stem cell personhood movement, which would grant full citizen rights to fertilized human eggs. It’s a move that will surely doom his chances to win a general election in Colorado, according to First District Democratic Rep.

How many TV ads has Marco Rubio run as he’s muscled past Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) in the Florida GOP’s primary for U.S. Senate? None. Rubio’s surge has been

U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle this morning denied the government’s attempt to further delay the hearing of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammed Jawad and, as