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The Obama administration is putting a new plan in place at Afghanistan’s Bagram air field detention facility to bring indefinite detentions there -- a practice

My love for the U.S. Naval Institute’s blog is second only to my love of Coke Zero. Over the last week, the blog has sparked a far-reaching debate about how the

There was a lot of encouraging rhetoric for defense reformers from President Obama in his press conference tonight. Asked about the politics of cutting defense,

McCain says he won’t support Crist if he runs as an independent. And Cantor won’t support him under any circumstances. The IRS is investigating the use of

At a Senate hearing today, Obama administration officials defended BP’s use of dispersants to break up oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Testifying before the

Pedro Guzman complains of inedible food and taunting guards at the Georgia facility where he’s being detained. His case is not unique.

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It’s tax time 2011, which means it’s the second anniversary of the Tea Party. It’s also nearly a week after the first great Washington budget battle of the Tea Party-era in what’s sure to be a series of similar battles pitting the Republican-controlled House against the Democratic-controlled Senate and President Obama.

With the long-awaited announcement of Defense Secretary Bob Gates’ hard-choices budget coming in about an hour, there’s been a lot of talk this morning about

The lobbying industry enjoyed a record-breaking year in 2008, according to a report by the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-profit that tracks money in

As a party, Republicans want to have it both ways on immigration -- to tout anti-immigration policies without alienating Latino voters. On Monday, for

The Orange County Register has named Orly Taitz, the birther attorney who briefly became a weird kind of political celebrity, as one of the region’s top

Despite the Senate confirmation of 19 judges (of 38) nominated by President Obama for positions on the federal bench during the lame-duck session of Congress,

No surprise here. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is expected to announce at 3:15 EDT that the Senate health reform bill soon to hit the chamber

Terrorism remained the campaign issue of the day, as Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Richard Clarke, former counterterrorism adviser to Presidents Bill Clinton

Eve Fairbanks is making sense about the difference between House and Senate Republicans, the unanimous nay voters and the guys who even broke down and voted

Newly appointed investigator may find it impossible -- or at least very difficult -- to conduct a thorough and ethical investigation that stays within those narrow bounds.

Anti-abortion rights group Operation Rescue turned over to the Texas Attorney General the results of an investigation containing scathing allegations against a

It’s tax time 2011, which means it’s the second anniversary of the Tea Party. It’s also nearly a week after the first great Washington budget battle of the Tea Party-era in what’s sure to be a series of similar battles pitting the Republican-controlled House against the Democratic-controlled Senate and President Obama.

This thread at the Right Side of Life, keying off of a FreeRepublic.com thread, is actually a pretty useful look at the way facts bounce off of the birther

Today, there are two stories worth reading on the nexus of big finance and education. The first, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, reports that Nelnet -- a

Last month, Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, gave an interview to The Washington Post bragging about the impact the CIA’s drone strikes have had on

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