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If this came in any other context except the aftermath of a dispiriting, fraud-filled election, this statement from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

Something else from Attorney General Eric Holder’s apparent decision to seek prosecutions for low-level CIA interrogators (Argh!) over torture: Newsweek reports

Another note on immigration and the economy: Fortune reported yesterday that low immigration levels are partly to blame for the high number of homes sitting

Unhappy that the federal government took away some of his powers to enforce immigration law, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona last week cited a non-existent law to

On the heels of her poor showing in the Iowa caucuses, Michele Bachmann has announced that she is ending her campaign to become the Republican nominee for president. Bachmann made the announcement at a press conference earlier today, saying, “Last night, the people of Iowa spoke, with a very clear voice, so I have decided to stand aside.” Mitt Romney got top bragging rights in last night’s Iowa caucuses, edging out opponent Rick Santorum by less than 10 votes. Libertarian-leaning Ron Paul secured third place with arund 21 percent of the votes, while the rest of the candidates — Newt Gingrich at 13 percent, Rick Perry at 10 percent and Bachmann at 5 percent — fell much further behind

Hundreds of people gathered in Benton Harbor yesterday to protest the Emergency Manager law that has stripped power from the local government. “Benton Harbor is the new Selma of the 21st century, a battle ground for human rights and civil liberties,“ Mayor Wilce Cooke told a crowd that gathered in the town library before the march. “The whole world is watching us to see what is going to happen here in Benton Harbor

It turns out just under 400 people have applied for relief under a $100 million fund BP set up to compensate rig workers who lost their jobs because of the

This is starting to make the veins in my forehead throb. Sarah Posner finds Vision America’s Rick Scarborough untethering himself completely from reality to

Good news first: The oil spewing from the busted well on the Gulf of Mexico’s seafloor is likely of a light grade that will be easier to clean up than some

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This is some extremely shoddy journalism from Mickey Kaus. The Slate blogger asks if ACORN chicanery elected Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), who won a razor-thin

The Republican National Committee is out with a TV ad running in Florida and select national cable networks, and it’s the kind of thing that Republicans might

I almost missed this John Boehner (R-Ohio) comment: “Scrapping the U.S. missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic does little more then empower

At Salon, Sara Hepola performs a true public service by personally testing the value menus of several fast-food restaurants, in an attempt to present the

INA, the French national television archive, has released a 42-minute documentary depicting life in Hanoi during the Vietnam War that contains four and a half

TWI’s David Weigel appeared on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show last night to talk about last weekend’s Values Voter Summit in Washington. In case you missed

Daniel Hay Lewis — who is not HIV-positive but was arrested by the Broward Sheriff’s Office and charged with the criminal transmission of HIV — should be out of custody Tuesday or Wednesday.

Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan -- who is currently campaigning to keep his job -- is accusing Senate Democrats of trying to steal the U.S.

Jimmy Carter is an avid hunter and gun owner who also happens to have once been president of the United States. The combination makes him well-placed in the

As tax season arrives, tougher rules to prevent tax preparers from peddling the wildly expensive loans languish in bureaucratic purgatory.

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