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Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) has put a hold on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) confirmation as secretary of state. Why? This is not an effort to scuttle

At a meeting today with environmentalists, President Obama’s staff would not commit to putting solar panels on the roof of the White House. According to a

Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne filed a lawsuit on Thursday challenging provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a law passed under historic circumstances

It’s been a tough road to refurbishing the Air Force’s refueling tanker fleet. The Pentagon’s KC-X tanker bid has seen Northrup Grumman drop out in frustration.

I just emailed Ronald Neumann, the former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan who was one of 17 retired diplomats writing to the Wall Street Journal in defense of

Some lawmakers have indicated they aren’t going to touch this weekend’s National Tea Party Convention with a ten-foot pole. Apparently, Alabamans don’t share

Americans for Tax Reform passes along an affidavit they sent to House members before the stimulus vote. I, _____________________________, commit to the

President Obama plans to change the criteria used to award all federal government contracts in order to reward companies who pay employees better than average

I’m remiss for not mentioning, as Josh Foust does, that Lt. General Stanley A. McChrystal has to answer for detainee abuse in Iraq, as well as the Pat Tillman

Montana is a hotbed of contradiction, especially when it comes to medical marijuana. Voters overwhelmingly approved medical marijuana in 2004, but in 2011 the state legislature voted to dramatically restrict access to medical marijuana.

In response to my speculation that CIA Deputy Director Steve Kappes is stepping down because of Jeff Stein’s recent critical profile of him in Washingtonian,

While the Senate Finance Committee is still working on opening statements, the storm surrounding the Medicare Advantage program -- in which the government buys

I can’t resist. One more from Cheney’s Fox News interview: The thing I keep coming back to time and time again, Chris, is the fact that we’ve gone for eight

The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida has begun beefing up its legal staff to possibly take on some of the more questionable bills passed during Florida’s recent legislative session. Among the pieces of legislation under scrutiny are three of the five anti-abortion rights measures passed this year . # Maria Kayanan, Associate Legal Director for the ACLU of Florida, tells The Florida Independent that the ACLU of Florida is still looking closely at all the legislation that could prove problematic

As the U.S. media scrutinize the Wall Street-Main Street implications of the financial crisis and the political effects of the bailout, some foreign journalists

Last week, The American Independent was first to report that the National Cancer Institute (NCI) had added a section on medical marijuana to its treatment

When Arizona passed its highly controversial immigration bill -- which among other provisions requires police to ask people about their legal status if they

Bruce Bartlett writes that there is little the Fed or the Treasury can do to winnow down unemployment in the face of congressional intransigence on additional

One of the enduring confusions amid the debate over extending unemployment benefits revolves around the fact that the Democrats’ proposals don’t actually extend

Wells Fargo & Co. tops the list of companies receiving the largest tax breaks since 2008, according to a joint study from Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy

Abu Muqawama’s pseudonymous guest blogger has a good post giving some reasons for not freaking out over the recent spate of high-profile Iraq bombings. S/he

Despite the controversy caused in Pakistan by misunderstandings about the bill, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs just sent out this statement: Earlier

Reid Wilson has the first look at a resolution being pushed by Republican National Committee member Jim Bopp, author of the infamous socialist resolution,