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Seeking to dismiss criminal fraud charges against him, Raymond Azar, a 45-year-old Lebanese construction manager working for an English contractor, has charged

As if on cue from that last post, Scott Eric Kaufman recounts this recent conversation: A former student of mine from Iran heard from his brother for the

GrassrootsPA is reporting that State Sen. David Argall, a Republican from Rep. Tim Holden’s (D-Pa.) base of Schuylkill County, might get into the race against

As the GOP presidential field in Iowa continues to fluctuate wildly between flavor-of-the-month candidates like Texas Gov. Rick Perry and U.S

Although some prominent Illinoisans have come out strongly in favor of the plan to transfer some Guantanamo Bay detainees to the largely vacant Thomson

The Environmental Protection Agency issued its long-awaited endangerment finding today, formalizing its conclusion that greenhouse gases -- and the resulting

Speaking at a Labor Day event in Milwaukee, Wis., President Barack Obama unveiled a new stimulus package designed to jump-start the economy before the November

This is war, said Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.). I think the decision you’ve made to try these cases in federal court represents a policy and political decision.

In the run-up to last month’s Senate vote that likely denied the USDA the right to limit potatoes in school lunches, U.S. Sen.

When it comes to constructing roads to manage national forests, U.S. Rep

If the recent Supreme Court decisions denying prisoners the right to DNA evidence or allowing companies to dump toxic mining waste in public lakes were getting

Sometimes, a picture --or graph-- really does say a thousand words. The State of the Union plotted the S&P 500 and Sen. John McCain’s performance in the

I just talked to Bay Buchanan, the co-chairman of Team America PAC and president of the American Cause, who is sticking by executive director (of both groups)

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Sept. 23, 2009. Just in case he wasn’t familiar

Days ago Roy Moore , a former Alabama chief justice known for his refusal to remove a Ten Commandments monument from court property, stood on the steps of the Iowa Capitol and voiced his opposition to same-sex marriage rights in the Hawkeye State. Now he’s considering a much longer Iowa engagement while he pursues the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

This Benjamin Sarlin piece on right-wing delight at Al Franken’s Senate win in Minnesota is ... strange. Al Franken is a very tempting target because he is so

This is the beginning of an assessment written by Maj. Gen. Michael Flynn, the senior-most intelligence adviser to Gen. Stanley McChrystal, for the Center for a

Prediction time. When the definitive history of the Bush administration’s prosecution of the Iraq war is written, its attempt to force the Iraqi government to

The battle in Colorado over the shape of next decade’s congressional districts continues.

One big surprise and one cruise to victory in the Beehive State, as attorney Mike Lee scored an upset victory in the state’s Republican Senate primary and

This week, the Republican Governors Public Policy Committee released a report on Medicaid that outlines cost-saving measures decided upon by 31 Republican governors. Among the policy recommendations is a proposal to require the federal government to pay for the care of undocumented immigrants

Here’s why Palin probably won’t run in 2012. Americans are split on an Afghan troop increase. Kerry might be having his best press cycle ever. And he

Thanks to TPM for spotting what appears to be the first big defection from the Clinton camp in the wake of Tuesday’s results in North Carolina and