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At his short press conference at the Values Voter Summit, Mike Huckabee took an open-ended question about former President Jimmy Carter’s remark that there is

Continuing the long twilight struggle to document President Obama’s chameleon-like ability to transmogrify into different cultures and religions simply by

Look, the media doesn’t pay enough attention to Samuel Wurzelbacher. The key scene in Wurzelbacher’s latest episode of Just Joe, the Pajamas TV web show comes

A year ago, blogger Michael Shedlock pronounced Citigroup insolvent. No one paid much attention then, but Shedlock never wavered. Now the U.S. government is

While it may have looked symbolic and easy, President Obama’s signing of the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act today was a bold move signifying a renewed interest in the

Under pressure from the White House, BP has agreed to set aside $20 billion in an escrow fund to compensate victims of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, The

Ben Smith has the details: The White House, I’m told, will today announce that it’s filling the key Pentagon slot for the implementation -- or repeal -- of

ISTANBUL – It’s 10 p.m. in the lowest level of the Istanbul airport. In 20 minutes I’ll be allowed to board my plane to Kabul, bringing me to the

It went largely without notice, but in its last issue (with the Beauty of Drilling cover), National Review’s editors responded to criticism over its Wise

Marc Lynch flags -- and argues with -- an apparent position taken by Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, in favor of taking until the end of

So, according to Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the strategic goal of the Helmand river valley campaign is to disrupt and deny opium revenue to the insurgency.

In addition to Guantanamo Bay and torture, the big topics of the day seems to be warrant-less surveillance and Federal Intelligence and Surveillance Act and

Here’s an interesting tip I just got from American Rights At Work about the Republican’s vociferous opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act, based on its

Check out this Bmaz post at Emptywheel about a rumor circulating through Arabic-language media that Ibn Shaikh al-Libi, a member of al-Qaeda who was tortured at

Read Marcy Wheeler for a blistering takedown of CIA Director Leon Panetta’s Washington Post op-ed yesterday. The short version of Panetta’s argument is that he

I think it’s pretty clear that Harry Reid and the Democratic side ... wants illegals counted in the Census, wants illegals in the reapportionment of the

Following up the story of far-right site Newsmax.com taking ads from Massachusetts GOP candidate Scott Brown, there’s this: A friend who’s subscribed to

The National Rifle Association today informed Senate lawmakers that the group has very serious concerns with Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s ruling

Now that the House and Senate armed services committees have heard from Amb. Karl Eikenberry and Gen. Stanley McChrystal, there are two more hearings to go: the

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