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On Thursday, Pakistani Ambassador Husain Haqqani admonished critics that his government had not endorsed any peace deal with the Taliban in the Swat

President Obama might have signed the bill that allows loaded weapons in national parks, but don’t tell that to the armed activists who gathered Monday at

Steve Rosen, who’s trying to derail Ambassador Chas Freeman’s chairmanship of the National Intelligence Council, says this about M.J. Rosenberg from the Israel

At noon today. Laura Rozen reports: Scheduled to brief members: Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy; Holbrooke deputy Paul Jones; the ODNI’s

Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine), the only Republican to offer the least bit of support for the Democrats’ health reform legislation this year, said Tuesday that she

One hesitates to say this will amount to anything, but Marc Lynch notes that Mohammed Essam Derbala, a leader of Ayman Zawahiri’s Egyptian terrorist group that

The U.S. Postal Service is hurting. In April, The American Independent reported that it’s teetering on the brink of financial insolvency, with no obvious

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) has, for months, bent over backward to piece together a health reform proposal capable of winning at

Eric Kleefeld rounds up more local Tea Party coverage and sees a conflict between the hard-line activists who attend these things, versus the more mainstream

According to Ali Soufan, the battle lines in the internal debate at the CIA facility where Abu Zubaydah was to be tortured broke down this way: FBI and CIA all

Via Ezra Klein, today the Washington Times gives us a gift-wrapped present for the holidays:

That Afghanistan law essentially robbing women of anything resembling autonomy over their own bodies is worse than I thought: it’s charmingly focused on the

Kate Zernike has written a fascinating piece on the bare-knuckled political activism of the National Precinct Alliance, formed to make sure party committees

The DCCC may abandon Hawaii’s special House election if the party cannot unite behind one of its two candidates in the race. CBS Las Vegas affiliate KLAS has

Following up on the ethics committee’s organizational meeting, in which they officially laid out the charges against Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.), The New York

When last we left the Manas air base drama, the Kyrgyz parliament had voted to deny the United States access to the big logistic air hub for the Afghanistan

On Monday, Rep. Michele Bachmann responded to constituents regarding a petition targeting her on anti-LGBT bullying incidents and suicides that have occurred in the Anoka-Hennepin School District which lie in her congressional district. Tammy Aaberg, the mother of a student who took his own life in 2010, presented Bachmann with the petition two weeks ago

In 2006, I attended an event hosted by the Robert Taft Club, a proudly un-PC debate society run by young conservative activists who worked at the Leadership

Despite new lobbying and ethics reforms, big business uses events like the political conventions to gain all-important access.

Outside of a noon pro-immigration prayer vigil on Capitol Hill, where he called the immigration restriction group Federation for American Immigration Reform --