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In a followup to yesterday’s news that a British court ruled that it would conceal information about the rendition and alleged torture of Guantanamo Bay

Two weeks before President-elect Barack Obama takes the oath of office, the Colorado legislature enjoyed a historic moment swearing in two African-American men

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

The conservative blogger/reporter/columnist, author of In Defense of Internment and Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and

Progressives who oppose escalation see an opportunity to change the public debate.

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

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

I’ve been buying Michael Barone and Richard E. Cohen’s biannual Almanac of American Politics since 2001, so I’m happy to own the new 2010 edition, even if a

CIA Director-designate Leon Panetta took on a right-wing myth head on, saying that even in the hypothetical ticking bomb case -- OMG there’s a bomb hidden in

Presidential candidate Rick Perry has signed the National Organization for Marriage’s marriage pledge, the group announced on Friday. The Texas governor has a

As I wrote earlier today, it is difficult to see the May jobs numbers as anything but a worrying disappointment. The stall-out in job growth might be temporary

This certainly seems like a prelude to a very long-telegraphed campaign: There’s been a heavy bombardment. They targeted some militant hideouts as well as

<p>As the Clinton-Obama duel grinds on, Democratic eyes are turning to those previously underappreciated people known as

While we’re all duly praising Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) for calling a hearing next Wednesday on the torture memos, I’m still puzzled by one thing: why

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell assured reporters yesterday, I see nothing to indicate that that date -- that is, the date to close the Guantanamo Bay

The Project on Government Oversight, which blew the story of State Department contractor-gone-wild ArmorGroup wide open last week, put out this statement about

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released a final research plan for its ongoing and congressionally mandated study of the controversial but common oil and gas drilling procedure known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” A holding pond for fracking fluids in Texas

For quick reference, you can find all of my posts on the just-released inspectors general report on warrantless surveillance programs here.

Sorry, just have to do one more post on Jeh Johnson’s prepared answers from the Senate Armed Services Committee ahead of his confirmation hearing to become

The Radiance Foundation, the group that recently unveiled a series of anti-abortion billboard in Oakland, Calif., has unveiled another set of ads directed at the African-American community. According to a press release , the group will put up no fewer than 50 billboards throughout metro and downtown Atlanta, in an effort to expose what they call “the epidemic of abortion.” # The billboards liken abortion to slavery, proclaiming, “The 13th Amendment freed us. Abortion enslaves us,” with a link to the foundation’s TooManyAborted.com.

Earlier today I was chatting with a Pentagon official -- anonymously, of course -- about the Defense Department’s forthcoming fiscal 2010 budget. My source

Today, Neal Wolin, the deputy secretary of the Treasury, gave a speech to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s annual conference in Baltimore, and