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John Soltz of VoteVets makes an absolutely crucial point in an interview with TPM’s Christina Bellantoni: Soltz said VoteVets members are worried the policies

Following up on the revelation that four western oil-giants are getting massive no-bid contracts from the Iraqi Oil Ministry comes the least surprising story of

Undeterred, Ensign will seek reelection. The GOP might not want to pit Palin against Sotomayor. Conservatives cry race card, but they can probably only

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The ethics committee meeting is now in full swing, and Rep. Gene Green (D-Texas), the lead Democrat on the investigation panel, has laid out the four broad

As lawmakers in Washington look for answers to ongoing economic woes, U.S. Sen.

Flouting a federal court order, the CIA refused Wednesday to make public long-secret records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on

As The New York Times reported in a front-page story today, President Obama is slowly coming around to saying he’s thinking that he’s probably going to do

Are there really any “lone wolves” engaging in dangerous terrorist liaisons? That’s what some opponents of section 6001(b) of the USA PATRIOT Act are

Fresh out: The United States and the European Union condemn the continuing human rights violations in Iran since the June 12 election. The large scale

We read lots of emails from the presidential campaigns around here, but sometimes the most interesting ones say nothing at all. Bill Burton, chief

Nathan Hodge reports for Danger Room that the U.S. military has put out a solicitation for a contract worth up to $25 million to build three new detention

A list of billionaire industrialists and conservative magnates that help fund Charles and David Koch’s far-reaching empire was released by Mother Jones magazine

In October, freshman Rep. Pete Olson (R-Texas) introduced a resolution honoring James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles for their ACORN sting. Thirty-one Republicans

In response to my story this morning on how Gov. Sarah Palin couches her discussion of special-needs children in anti-abortion rights language, several readers

Attorney General Michael Mukasey pre-empted a contempt of Congress vote by the House oversight committee this morning by claiming executive privilege. Henry A.

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) Despite expressing concerns with his state’s “fetal personhood” amendment, which would define life as beginning at conception, Mississippi Gov.