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Registan’s Josh Foust is at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan -- hopefully he’ll find the Korean BBQ dining facility that I missed -- and he has a fascinating

An ultrasound machine (Pic by redjar, via Flickr) The anti-abortion groups Jubilee Campaign’s Law of Life Project (LOLP) and the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) have filed a motion to intervene in the injunction of a North Carolina law that would have forced abortion providers to show women an ultrasound and describe it to them before providing an abortion. Last month, U.S

A statement just released by Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), whose Senate Armed Services Committee discovered widespread fraud in Blackwater’s previous Afghanistan

With President Obama set to say goodbye to his Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in less than an hour’s time, the media is full of reports and profiles concerning his

I’ve been tracking the progress of Rep. Jack Kingston’s (R-Ga.) Czar Accountability and Reform (CZAR) Act of 2009, the legislation that would kill the salaries

In response to Lawrence Lessig’s article on Citizens United, the Center for Competitive Politics’s Allison Hayward has published a piece in the Boston Review.

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Kevin DeAnna writes about the new Temple University course on Mayor Lou Barletta’s tenure in Hazelton -- a class called, evocatively, War in Hazelton. Week

With roughly an hour to spare before a midnight deadline, federal lawmakers and President Barack Obama struck a deal to avoid a shutdown of the federal government — at least for this week.

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Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for California governor, is facing accusations that she knowingly employed an illegal immigrant as her housekeeper and

Everyone in the blogosphere -- Glenn, I’m looking in your direction -- who may have thought that John Brennan was kneecapped just because he didn’t become CIA

The House on Friday approved legislation to extend the filing deadline for emergency unemployment benefits through November. It does not create new

A system that protects southeast Michigan water systems by monitoring for chemical contamination in Lake St. Clair and the St. Clair and Detroit rivers may shut down because of a lack of funding.

It sounded like a good idea. In this interactive age, the Department of Homeland Security wanted to take advantage of an easy way to get public feedback on its

Five former Treasury secretaries support the Volcker Rule to separate banks’ risky trading from their commercial banking operations. Social networking theory

The number of people filing new claims for jobless benefits fell to 11,000 to 445,000 this week, the Labor Department reported this morning. Economists had

Declining numbers of Pennsylvania Republicans and anger at party moderates have made backers of Pat Toomey confident they can defeat the five-term senator.

Glenn Beck, one-time shock jock now wildly emotive and popular TV political conspiracy theorist, is airing his last regular show on the Fox network tonight. He plans to stride from the Fox studio after his nightly show to the home of his new “GBTV” outlet to do a post-Fox interview– not with any media talking head but with regular people who will participate in a live Q&A. To hear GB talk about his new venture, it’s going to be typically low key and free of grandiose aspirations

Alissa J. Rubin has a great story in The New York Times today about a crucial issue in Iraq (which some wags are starting to call the Forgotten War): an

In an effort to cut $58 billion from the federal budget for the second half of Fiscal Year 2011, House Republicans released a budget proposal late last week, one provision of which would mean steep cuts for food safety programs at both the FDA and USDA. Critics argue the reductions could cause a major hold-up on recently enacted food safety laws. # According to the Republican plan, 14 percent, or $3.2 billion, would be chopped from the budgets of the USDA and FDA.