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Somos Republicans, a Latino group from the Southwest, wrote an open letter to the future House GOP leadership on Tuesday asking it to reconsider putting Rep.

This is your horrible, dystopian future: John Yoo, the former Office of Legal Counsel official who had a hand in crafting the Bush administration’s detentions,

When last we left the question of who would staff a Gates Pentagon -- GOP appointees or Obama’s people? -- it looked pretty much like Obama would put his team

Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), who did not vote for the Senate version of financial regulatory reform, not believing the bill strong enough, has indicated that he

Donald Vandergriff is a member emeritus of the counterinsurgency/4th-generation-warfare community. And he has some insightful criticism of my Petraeus

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Department of Defense officials are expected to sign off as early as this week on a report detailing just how dependent the U.S. military is on rare earth

The same morning President Barack Obama announced he’s running for re-election , Minnesota’s Tim Pawlenty countered with a video rebuttal. Like his previous Hollywood-style offerings, this one combines a cinematic soundtrack with quick-cut editing.

Republican Party of Florida Chairman Lenny Curry is defending his state’s primary selection process, which has resulted in a Jan. 31, 2012 date that has thwarted the will of the national political parties

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When last we left the saga of the CIA’s 2004 inspector general report on torture, Judge Alvin Hellerstein had left the ACLU hanging on its objection to the

There’s something bizarre about Presidential candidate John McCain hiring chief terrorism prosecutor Edward O’Callaghan to head up his effort to thwart an

He’s decidedly anti-trigger. And he’s opposed to health care co-ops. But Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee’s health

Gen. Stanley McChrystal is citing these figures in the expansion of the Afghan security forces as an accomplishment of his first year in command of the

The latest news on the Guantanamo front is that despite the president’s big promise in January to close Guantanamo Bay within a year, it turns out that just

Unmentioned in President Obama’s speech to Congress last night was the impending battle over card check, which promises to be anything but post-partisan. As

AMES — Former Iowa First Lady Christie Vilsack , promising a church-potluck civility, announced her campaign this morning for Congress as a Democrat in the state’s new 4th District, a sweep of 39 counties in western and central Iowa. Most of the counties are now represented by U.S. Rep.

Defense Department General Counsel Jeh Johnson moved the Obama administration into new territory from a civil liberties perspective. Asked by Sen. Mel Martinez

Though big labor was dealt a blow last week by news that the Employee Free Choice Act will likely not make it to the floor, they’ve quietly scored a big win.