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Office of Legal Counsel Director-nominee Dawn Johnsen confirmed today that the OLC does not have the authority to give the president a green light to ignore

Saying that he can’t support the health reform bill working its way through the House, Rep. Allen Boyd (D-Fla.), a member of the conservative-leaning Blue Dog

As Iowa Democrats prepare to meet this weekend to select delegates to the the Denver convention, Iowa Independent reports that Hillary Clinton’s campaign is

The BBC is reporting that Hamid Karzai now has more than 54 percent of the vote in Afghanistan’s presidential election, meaning he can avoid a runoff election,

Robert Kaplan on the real lessons of Fort Hood: The massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, in which 13 soldiers were shot and killed by Army Maj. Nidal Hasan,

GUANTANAMO BAY -- The only time the courtroom has cleared in Omar Khadr’s pre-trial hearing so far was for a 20-minute stretch on Saturday morning while the

I caught up with Hannah Giles, co-star of the ACORN sting videos, after she accepted one of 10 Buckley Awards handed out in the XPAC lounge for young

In a congressional hearing today, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan admitted that his flawed economic philosophy contributed to the financial

The EPA seal (Pic via sentryjournal.com) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that it had issued Consent Agreements and Final Orders against 25 entities throughout the Southeast for violations of the Clean Water Act.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin apparently caught her staff by surprise last month when she told NBC’s Brian Williams she would release her medical records to the

Who knew, eight years ago, that compassionate conservatism would include the partial nationalization of the banking industry? It happened today, and some

The threat from moderate House Democrats to derail health reform legislation over abortion funding concerns is a problem that can be worked out this week, House

As part of a defense spending bill passed yesterday in the House, Democratic leaders included funding to prevent a 21-percent cut in Medicare payments to

All four GOP candidates featured at this weekend’s Florida Senate debate, hosted by the Florida Family Policy Council in Orlando, discussed their views on a range of controversial social issues, including abortion.

First lady Michelle Obama announced in a posting on BarackObama.com that Charlotte will host the 46th Democratic National Convention in 2012. St. Louis,

All the McCain campaign’s talk of Sen. Barack Obama’s desire to spread the wealth and promote redistributive change raises the question of whether

Just out from the office of House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) is this statement applauding President Obama’s move to expand offshore oil

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